Carey
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Scott Hawkins:
I just finished Mount Char and I really liked it a lot. Like, a lot a lot! I'm a regular librarian so I liked it on multiple levels. I was wondering if you could clarify what some of the kids' catalogs were. I got a good sense of Carolyn, Jennifer, David, Michael, Margaret and Peter (kind of), but what about the rest?
Scott Hawkins
Hi Carey,
As it happens, I have a list! When I was working on the book I had some trouble keeping up with them myself. As you saw, there were a lot of librarians who didn't get a lot of screen time. I'm also straight-up TERRIBLE with names. So when I was putting all the little scraps together into a first draft, there was some confusion.
* Anyway, here's the list from my blog.
* I also did a description of all twelve librarians for Suvudu. This one's got little anecdotes about the librarians, especially the ones who didn't get much screen time.
HTH
--Scott
As it happens, I have a list! When I was working on the book I had some trouble keeping up with them myself. As you saw, there were a lot of librarians who didn't get a lot of screen time. I'm also straight-up TERRIBLE with names. So when I was putting all the little scraps together into a first draft, there was some confusion.
* Anyway, here's the list from my blog.
* I also did a description of all twelve librarians for Suvudu. This one's got little anecdotes about the librarians, especially the ones who didn't get much screen time.
HTH
--Scott
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