Lauren Craig
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Cornelia Funke:
How did you come up with the idea for Inkheart? I have unfortunately lost my copy, but I loved it dearly.
Cornelia Funke
I think every reader know the feeling that literary characters sometimes seem more real than the people we know in so called reality. Part of the reason is of course that we are often allowed to peak right into the inner secrets of their hearts - something that we rarely are allowed to do even with close friends. I wanted to write a story about that feeling: that they are so real that they might come out at any time. But then of course the story had it's own mind - Mo's bus had already appeared for The ThiefLord (in chapters i later on cut) even the first chapter had given me a glimpse of it years earlier but I didn't know what it intended to tell me. And then there was Dustfinger, a character i learned more about when I saw fire eaters on a German medieval market. As you see.....each book feeds on many sources. This one also became a story about writing...but I realized that only in Inkspell
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Vita Luna
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Cornelia Funke:
Liebe Cornelia, ich wohne in den Niederlanden und lese Ihre Bücher sehr gerne. :) Mein Deutsch ist aber nicht gut genug, die ganze Reckless Bücher ins Deutsch zu können lesen. Also frage ich Sie, wann erscheint das dritten Reckless Buch ins Niederländisch? Ich freue mich sehr auf diesem Buch und habe die ersten zwei mit viel Spass gelesen! <3 mit freundlichen Grüssen Vita
Amira Rutherford-Moore
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Cornelia Funke:
Hi Cornelia! Ive been a avid fan of yours for about seven years, where I fell in love with your Inkheart trilogy. Inkspell will always be one of my all time favorites! My favorite of yours is the Mirrorworld books, those just take my breath away with each word and description. I know you recently published heartless in German a few months ago,But, do you have any idea when it will be published in English??
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