Quina
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Katie McGarry:
Hi , Mrs. Mcgarry, I really feel that your books are the kind of books I would like to write... I have two questions. Do you ever think you create characters with disabilities? How do you work on characterization?
Katie McGarry
Hi Quina,
I have written characters who are dealing with mental issues. Echo from Pushing the Limits has a memory loss (which is based on a memory loss I had from a traumatic experience in my childhood) and Rachel from Crash Into You is dealing with severe anxiety and panic attacks.
There are two other characters that I have in mind. One with a learning disability and another with a physical disability, but I have to find the right story for them. Often, these things take time for me to find the right plot.
For characterization, I really get to know my characters. Their likes and dislikes. Their favorite color, favorite band. I get to know them very deeply and that helps me write them in the story.
Thank you for reading my books!
Katie
I have written characters who are dealing with mental issues. Echo from Pushing the Limits has a memory loss (which is based on a memory loss I had from a traumatic experience in my childhood) and Rachel from Crash Into You is dealing with severe anxiety and panic attacks.
There are two other characters that I have in mind. One with a learning disability and another with a physical disability, but I have to find the right story for them. Often, these things take time for me to find the right plot.
For characterization, I really get to know my characters. Their likes and dislikes. Their favorite color, favorite band. I get to know them very deeply and that helps me write them in the story.
Thank you for reading my books!
Katie
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Amber Recinella
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Katie McGarry:
Hi Katie, So I absolutely love "pushing the limits series" I just finished reading Take me on and Crossing the limits. After reading Crash into you I was actually hoping the next story would have been about Abby and with either Logan or Ethan? (I did love west and haley though) PLEASE tell me you will be doing Abby's story with either ethan or logan???? Look forward to hearing back!
Leah
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Katie McGarry:
Hello, there! Now, this possibly could have been a mistake of mine, but my copy of The Proposal has not arrived in my e-mail yet, even when I entered the transaction code of my pre-order of Walk the Edge, before the first of this new month. I am not sure if I let my mind slip and allowed the stupidity to enter a wrong e-mail address. Could I amend this somehow? (By the way, I ABSOLUTELY ADORE ALL OF YOUR BOOKS.)
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