Spark Olaguez
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Colleen Houck:
Just came across an arc for, "REAWAKENED The Reawakened Series =Colleen Houck ARC 2015 YA Tiger's Curse" on ebay do you approve of this? I never really thought that people would try to sell the arc since I believe people who take them love books so they should respect the book and the author.Did it happen a lot for Tiger's Curse? -This a lot, also can't wait for Tiger's Destiny!
Colleen Houck
That's an interesting question. The purpose of an advanced reading copy is to generate buzz about an upcoming release. Putting an arc up for sale on ebay certainly does that, though profiting from such a thing seems ethically wrong when neither the publisher or the author earns anything from it's sale. There's an interesting article about the selling of arcs linked below. Unfortunately that kind of thing comes with the territory. http://www.theguardian.com/books/book...
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Hannah
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Colleen Houck:
I'm really interested in how you write so beautifully about the different cultures that are the main focus of your stories. How you gain the background cultural information and the descriptions for the different areas you describe... Do you take time off from writing just to research the areas you want to write about or do you do a lot of traveling so that you can write about it more confidently...?
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