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My name is Esme and I am 11 years old.
I am writing to you to ask if you could please šŸ™šŸ¼ write more wolf 🐺 brother books because i love them too much!
I have never in my whole entire life loved a series more than this one. I can’t even say how much I love it 🄰
I have already read all of them including skin taker and wolf bane. I would do anything so i could read more wolf brother.
Also i read the whole entire series 3 times! I guess it wouldn’t hurt to read it again! Again i can’t explain to anyone how much I adore them. I also have a few questions for you.

1. How do you make your books so so good and descriptive and heartwarming and frightening all at the same time?
2. How do the clans brush their teeth and stuff like that?
3. Do you enjoy any specific snacks while you are writing your books?
4. Do you have any favorite characters? Mine are Sheshru Renn Pebble Rip and Rek and basically all of them!
5. What was your favorite wolf brother book that you ever wrote?
6. Sorry if I’m bugging you a bit but-lease can you make more wolf brother books?????
7. I love how you make it so that everyone has a clan ( except Torak ) and there are spirits in everything. How do you do think of it?

Your number #1# fan Esme!!#!!
PS: i hope i didn’t put any spoilers in there!
Please again could you make more wolf brother books i badly need them for reading!

Michelle Replies…

Hello, Esme.Ā  Thank you for your three messages, and I’m really pleased that you love my stories so much!Ā  I’m also grateful to you for avoiding spoilers. I’m afraid that despite your heartfelt pleas, I’ve no plans to write another wolf brother book.Ā  I’ve explained why in answers to other readers, but in essence, I just feel that I’ve given Torak, Renn and Wolf a good send-off, and I want to end on a high note, with a book (Wolfbane) I can be proud of.Ā  I’m sorry to disappoint you.

Moving on to your questions, some of yours were the same as Chris’, so you can see what I’ve told him; as regards what’s left: (1) Thank for saying such nice things about my writing.Ā  The answer is: it involves a great deal of hard work and masses of re-writing;Ā  I re-write each book dozens of times, to get it right.Ā  (2) I think in one of the books I mention Renn cleaning her teeth by chewing a twig, or a strawberry root; and generally Torak’s people had fairly good teeth, as they didn’t have sugar or sweets; but if they got toothache, they chewed pine resin, which is a natural antiseptic, and/or willow bark, a pain-killer.Ā  (3) Of course I love Torak and Renn, and Fin-Kedinn and Dark, and I also enjoyed creating the Soul-Eaters!Ā  But if you told me to pick one favourite, it would have to Wolf.Ā  I found it oddly easy to write from his point of view, and he never failed to surprise me. (7) As for thinking up the different clans and the spirits which inhabit Torak’s world, I based many of my ideas on the ways of life of more recent hunter-gatherers, such as the Inuit and certain Native American peoples.Ā  There’s lots on this in each of the Author’s Notes at the end of each book, so you might like to take a look there.

I’ll have to leave it there, Esme, as I must go and do some writing.Ā  Thanks again for getting in touch, and I hope you continue to enjoy spending time with Torak, Renn and Wolf in the Forest!Ā  With very best wishes, Michelle


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