I haven’t mentioned this before, but black dog books have created a special “mini” website for the Dragonkeeper series. There is information about Chinese places and things that feature in Dragon Moon. You can download Dragonkeeper wallpaper for your computer or you can try and solve the puzzle that Ping has to solve in the story. Also there is an audio interview with me. Click here to visit the site.
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what series do you sugges i read?
i have to have something to read while i wait although a have a new book out of a series i like but i would love if you suggested a series or book i would like!
Anna,
I did a blog a while back (18 May)about books that Dragonkeeper readers might like. I suggested some titles and readers added to the list. I think they are all available in US. Go to this address to find it http://www.carolewilkinson.com.au/news/index.php/2007/05/18/further-reading/
Is Dragon moon the last one? Becaus if it is I’ll be Sad. I was sad when I finished the Garden of the purple dragon and Dragon Keeper
Why does the Usa have to waite till next year for Dragon moon to come
Kirsten,
Yes, I’m afraid Dragon Moon is the last.
The US publication date is decided by the publisher Hyperion, not by me. I don’t have any control over publication dates. Sorry.
Ihope Dragon Moon ends explaining Evry thing that was left with in the end of the Garden of the purple of the Dragon.
Oh I also just found your website I read Dragon Keeper a year ago. My libarien told me ther was another but I could not find till 4 days ago at a book stor It was the last one I have to say you have a lot of fans of the Dragon Keeper trilgy. I have a friend who loves drgons and she actully recomened the book to me. She would be thrilled if she knew ther was tow more.
Kirsten,
Yes I think you’ll find everything is explained in Dragon Moon. Hope you like it.
I have another dragon book coming out in October. A dragon encyclopedia. I will be talking about it in my blog soon.
ya I love dragons hope it’s good ya ya ya ya your awsome
I was wondering have you ever met michell Paver she another relly good auther of a serise called cronicals of aceient of acient darkness The books she has so far are Wolf Brother, Spiret Walker, Sole eater her next book is out cast it come around the same time Dragon moon comes out.Your both awsome yaya
Kirsten,
No I have not met Michelle Paver, she is a British author. She was here in Australia last year, but I didn’t meet her. Her books sound great.
her books are great your books both have this felling of me wanting more and more not wan’ting it to endthey are just awsome
Are you gonna write any other book not about dragons like a serise
or like withe other animals
Kirsten,
I will certainly be writing other books. I’ll just take them one at a time though! I don’t know if they ‘ll end up as series. I haven’t even started my next book, so it will be a while before it’s available. Did you check out my Further Reading blog, where I suggest books by other authors that readers might enjoy? http://www.carolewilkinson.com.au/news/index.php/2007/05/18/further-reading
ya I cheked the list i don’t really know any of the books but I try theme when my shcool librey opens my shcool is still under building prosses so we don’t have any play ground for six weeks and the libraey tow weeks but we have alot of extra rooms
Kirsten,
I hope you find some of the books when your school library opens.
to day are libray just opend it opend earley and youre book Dragon Keeper is the main featued book It was ontop of the shelves but thy didn’t have Garden of the Purple Dragon. we even have sixth grade reading groups altho I’m in sixth grade we haven’t started yet. Lots of kids love your books
O and I’m leranig how to do origami of a chines dragon it’s verry hard but I like it dragons are cool i’m glad I found a writer wrote about them how I love it
Kirsten,
That’s very exciting, that Dragon Keeper is featured in your library. An origami Chinese dragon sounds like fun.
thers acutlley tow typs in my orgamie book thers eropeian dragon and oriental dazin was an oreatal right
Kirsten,
Yes, Danzi is definitely an oriental dragon.
i find the oreantal to be more intresting just because i like the chines culture
i love dragons,i often draw them.i want to send you one of my many drawings.please tell me your address.
hi Carole,
i’ve read all the dragonkeeper series 3 times and i’m even doing a book talk on it. it rox, u rox, evry1 rox, and i just
r u gonna make a movieof the books?
i think u should ’cause some kids may not know what kai or danzi look like.
TessyGal,
That’s pretty keen, reading them three times. I’m impressed.
I can’t make a movie and it would cost millions of dollars. I have to wait for a movie producer who has lots of money and wants to make a movie of the book.
hi cariole
havent written in ages
i am reading your series again and though i know everybit allready it never bores me.u have a great gift and it is so wonderful of you to share it to the world.i wish i could become a writer.my storeys just have no base or interest but i do get good grades in englesh so maybe if i can write an a-grade poem i can write an everlasting legend of a story like u.books are like an alternate reality for me.somewhere to escape to where people dont judge you because your very own story is inked into the page.reading is something that makes my life worth living and if there are always legend stories out there i will be reading.i have read the tommow series by jhon manerson and the power of one by brice courtney and your storeys are just as good or better with sadnes,happiness ansd longing all mixed in together.it makes me feel worth turning the page
regards
your true no.1 fan
madi
Hi Madi,
Good to hear from you. Thanks for your kind words,I’m glad you are still enjoying my books. If you want to be a writer you must be patient. You have to keep writing and making up stories. If you wanted to be a tennis player you wouldn’t expect to be immediately good enough to play at Wimbledon. Writers have to practise and practise, just like sports people to improve your skills. Good luck with it.
Hi it’s been a whil I Just started a series ther teen books about a Vampier romance. I read the first tow allredy I have the last one out left to read It just came out THe books are by by ather thats name escaps my mind but the books I’ve read are Twilight and New moon the one i havent read is Eclips but ther Awsome!!!!!!!
I just can’t stop reading the vampier siers on New moon I read frome 6:00 to 4:00 in the morning and got half way through its mor than 500 pages it sooooo awsom
!!!!
Kirsten,
I don’t know how you could stay awake the next day if you read till 4 am!
HAHA i guss i have excpirenc but I finshed Eclips last night her third book, her forth ones coming next year but the aothers name was Stephenie Meyer
I dont think ints possible for me to stay cool whil I have to wait for your book too but I’ll live at least Do have you heard of her books ther realy good evrey one I Know has them atleast the middle schoolers the udults too but not a single kid from my shcool shars tthe same paison for them like i do not even my sister and she bought the first book and got me into them I think ther better than harry potter but i never much cared for them!!:)
Sorey about my speling
Kirsten,
No I haven’t read them. I’m not that keen on Vampire stories. I always have a lot of stuff to read for research for my books, so I don’t get a lot of time to read for pleasure.
to bad:( but you do have alot to do
but i gusse you woudn’t have read thm i guss ther
onley big over here in the U.S.A
Kirsten,
They are available here in Australia. They just aren’t my kind of book.
oh well sorry what are yore kind of books teen kids or adult do you plane to write any teen or adult or is youre pulisher onley do kids books i have a question whats the whole contract thing for big writers because thers this writer and their next dosnt realy sum up the story but she onley has a contract till the next book she says shes going to keep writing that would drive me crazy if i read her book
sorry about my spelling
Kirsten,
my books so far are for kids aged up to about 14 or so, though some adults enjoy them.
I don’t know about other writers contracts I’m afraid. It’s a private matter. Most people start out writing without a contract and trying to sell their book.
oh so the publishers buy the book how much rights do they have to the book then would you have any rights to your book if they made it a movie?beacuse jk rolling stayed in the stodios and told them what to take out and what not is that just with writers like her beacuse of her books.
Kirsten,
It all depends on the contract, whether the author keeps the movie rights. I think the best thing is to choose a producer who you trust to do a good job of the movie, and let them do their job. I don’t think the author is always the best person to decide what goes and what stays, they are too close to the story.
i see like not wanting to give up littel charetes so what chaeters would leave on take out if your books were made a movie
Kirsten,
I wouldn’t want to leave any of them out. That’s why I think it’s important to find other people who you trust to make those hard decisions. I’d want to discuss it of course. But this is all hypothetical at this point. I might feel completely different if it was actually happening.
would they combin the three books you have or are they long enough page wise
how do you ponounc kia name
I thouhght that the dragon keeper could live as long as the dragon cause the guy that wasn’t fully his keeper lived a long time ithink the chaeter ithink i’d lave out would loe ma the old ladey
hwer are you Are you on a trip its been4 days
hello
sirsley are you resonding and i’m not seeing it
Kirsten,
I have been away on holiday. Even writers are allowed to have a break once in a while!
Kai’s name rhymes with buy. Dragons live for 1000s of years. Dragonkeepers live to an old age, perhaps 120, but certainly not as long as dragons.
oh sory