Hello, Kurt!  Wow, it’s pretty awesome to hear from someone who still remembers I.D.  Honestly, I haven’t watched The Orphan Black, but now I’ll make sure I do!

Thanks, Doven!  What a nice message.  Sorry you had to read the books out of order, but I’m very glad you enjoyed them!

Hello, Anne! Good eye. Yes, you are absolutely right!

Hello, Theresa. Ohhhh, I am so sorry to have upset your daughter with that cliffhanger! But have no fear, Book 5 is on the way. You’re right, the publication date is early 2016.  I believe it will be March, but possibly February.  And it will be the final book of the series — so no more cliffhangers.  Unfortunately it’s too early to pre-order, but as soon as that changes, I will post links on my website (this page).  And also on the [pl-popup content="http://www.sevenwondersbooks.com/books" title="Seven Wonders official site" width="1000" height="640"]Seven Wonders site[/pl-popup].  In the meantime, I would be delighted to sign a copy of any and all of your daughter’s book(s).  If you don’t mind, please contact me at this email address for details.   Thanks so much for your kind words.  I’m delighted you’ve enjoyed the series!

Hi, Nick!  I’ll do better than tell you the information.  I’ll tell you how you can find this info for every book you will ever read in your lifetime.  At the beginning of any book, you will see a copyright page that has the things you need.  If you’re doing a report on COLOSSUS, I’m thinking you have a copy of the book, so check that out.  If you don’t have a copy, you can find the information pretty easily with Google or Amazon.
As for what influenced me, well, I was the oldest kid in my family, and I liked to entertain my younger siblings and cousins with stories, imitations, etc., so I was always a storyteller.  One day I read a story called “To Build a Fire,” by Jack London, a survival tale set in the Arctic, and it was so vivid that I started shivering with cold on a hot summer night.  I found that experience so powerful.  I began thinking I wanted to do THAT someday.  I read a lot.  I loved Edgar Allen Poe’s writing, Ray Bradbury, Dr. Seuss.  I loved science fiction a lot.  It took me a long time to believe in myself enough to try writing professionally, but I’m really glad I did.

Hello, Maria!  Thanks so much for this note.  I am really glad you found that book, and I will have to come back out to the Philippines someday and take those books out of the bargain bin and put them on the shelves!!  As for a sequel to THE SELECT — well, not exactly, but the events in THE COLOSSUS RISES tell about what happened afterward.  Of course I can answer your other questions.  But I’ll mix the order a bit.  Here goes:
1. Is there already a continuation of the journal of Daria of The Orphan?
      You’ll find Daria in Book 2: LOST IN BABYLON.
2. How did you found out about the G7W gene in The Select? Or is it just you who made it. I
      It’s all from my crazy imagination.
4. What is the most scrumddilyumptious CHOCOLATE in your opinion?
       Dark.  Caramel!  Yummmm!
5.(this is the last one, dont worry.) If I would send you a fan mail to where would I send it to? 
      Write me at peter@peterlerangis.com and I will reply with a mailing address.
3. Can you give some tips about writing and such?
      Here’s some advice I usually give people who are serious about writing books:     1. You have to want it more than anything else in the world. You have to be the kind of person who doesn’t settle for no.     2. Reading voraciously — all the time — is the single best training to become a writer.     3. It helps to be intensely curious about how your favorite authors make their work so good. What kind of words do they use? What kind of words do they leave out?     4. You need to practice. Like a musical instrument or a sport, writing gets better with constant work. Write some things for yourself, pieces that no one else sees. Also write stories that you show to people you respect — teachers, librarians, parents, siblings, other authors, etc. Listen to their feedback. Learn to recognize useful and useless feedback. Useful feedback is your best friend, even though it may feel painful.     5. You must collect ideas. Write them down. A pad or a writer’s notebook is great, but anything will do, even a receipt or a scrap of paper. Collect your ideas from conversations, things you observe in everyday life, dreams, other books and movies, etc. When you have a bunch of them, read them over and decide which is the best. Which one makes you the most excited? Start working on that one. If you like it, chances are your readers will too.     6. You need to recognize that the stakes in your story must be super-high. Even in stories about everyday life, there must be some dilemma that seems impossible to solve, something the readers will hang on to until the very end.     7. Regarding step 6, think hard about what you want to leave out of your story. That’s the thing that will pull your readers in.     8. Live life to the fullest. It’s easier to write compelling stories if you’ve experienced compelling events in your life.     9. Don’t worry about getting published right away. Almost no one is published at a super-young age, and that’s OK.     10. Did I say practice?     11. Practice.

Hmmmmm.  I am still working on that book, so I can’t reveal much, but I can tell you it will be the LAST book of the series …

Well … danke zurück!  If “cow” is “Kuh” in German, I wonder if “moo” is “muh.”  Maybe we’ll never know.  Thanks for writing back.  I’ll be thinking of dragons.

Nice! As a title, I think The Divination Game is gnizama ylpmis, so shudder dorkily with impunity. I hope to travel to Oregon for my Book 5 tour in 2016.  I probably won’t visit any high schools, but I’d most likely do a bookstore event open to the public.  Btw, I was there in 2012, touring for THE DEAD of NIGHT, where I visited the Alameda School, the Oregon Episcopal School, and I did a signing at Powell’s Books Beaverton. I also posted this blog entry, which includes a pretty funny video.