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Kate
I’m the girl from schoolThat wrote th 15000 page story.
I finished DESTROYING Avalon within 1 night I got in trouble for staying up late but It was worth it.
I’m now sitting on a grand total of 60834 hugs.
I belive that destroying Avalon has an excellent story line and I also believe it is movie worthy (I’d go see it!).
Kate I now concider you my friend and demand to Know your birthday so I may buy You a birthday present.
Hey Kate, It is your old Coles mate shazza here !!!! how are you?? I have been thinking about you the last few years, what you were up to, & then there is a snap of you in the West book section! So thank God for the internet, I found you here. So glad to hear about your 2 kids & you are still with Jason, sounds like you have a great happy life!! An author! Wow, well done! We have both come a long way from the Wanneroo check-out chicks we were!! I have had a million adventures since our late teenage-hood, travel, work, all that jazz! I am a photographer at The West Australian, have been since 1990. anyway, would love to hear from you, All the best Sharon Smith
Kate,
At our school Exeter High (Tasmania) all grade 10 english classes have or are reading Destroying Avalon. I was just wondering why you decided to write Destroying Avalon?.
This book really hit home too me and touched me very deeply, i think this book is truely amazing and would love too see it made into a movie someday!!!! Thankyou for an amazing read!!!
Cheers Kirsten
Hi Kirsten,
Thanks for the comment. The reason behind DA was to show the ‘new’ culture of bullying- beyond the traditional type. I hate the idea of anyone suffering in silence- which the whole bullying culture operates under. I wanted to draw attention to the issues and hopefully provide a platform for discussion- in schools and in the general public.
I’m glad you liked the book. One day I’d love to see it as a film too! Yay for your English teacher for picking such a current and topical book to teach!
Best
Kate
hi im in yr nine and we just read ur book and have to do an assignment on it, i was just curious to what lessons can be learned from the book destroying avalon??
Hi Gordon,
If you’re the same Gordo who emailed me then I’m replying to you twice! I think the lessons someone learns from a book are personal- and the reason why books affect us differently. I would hope that after reading DA people might learn tolerance and understanding… it would go along way to making this world a nicer place to live. And then of course there are the basic lessons about internet safety and not suffering in silence.
By the way Gordon- I like your initiative- set an assignment, so ask the author!
Good work!
Best
Kate
Hi Kate,
I saw you on TV a while ago. I was glad to hear you got you book published. I remember the Arts staff lounge and talking about it with our mate,Trudy. Cheers and congrats on your publications.
Hi Lee,
Nice to hear from you. Thanks for that! it’s been a journey to get here (as you remember) but it’s gathering momentum well now!
I hope you are well- still with the Department?
Cheers
Kate
OZ’s Dr Phil? I’ve never heard of this bloke Kate, an why h’ain’t he got hizown show here on um.. sbs I guess it would have to be eh.. I heard your interview on abc rad national this morning and decided your book was for my gfs grand daughter 13 that is in custody of her granma, not an ideal set of parents or lifes experience up till now for her and maybe she can curl up with this and pick up a few points for not throwing her life to the winds. Wasn’t in a local bookstore I’m about to find it online or her.
Enjoyed your interview Kate and your grammatical quirks in the blog… breaks the boredom of being correct all the damn time eh?
Cheers Neil
Hi, i love you book in ecstasy and the reason i found this website is because know i am doing a book report on it i read it every spare moment i could i have know borrowed destroying avalon from my school library top read that but havent started so much homework!!!
hi kate, i really loved your book your book destorying avalon. i cried and laughed and trust me i dont do that much! i take a great intrest in a story that can actully give you true emotion. your book has helped me thourgh a lot. this may sound completetly wired and i know u will think i am sounding like a girl that wants a pony for christmas but i was woundering if u have ever thought about making derstorying avalon a movie. this sounds really retarded i no! and u would probably need all this equiment that is fairly expensive but i would reaaly love u to show the world ur talent and i know some people that could easily help out with editing, dirrecting and more! if u say that is ok, then i will try my best to see wat there that i can help wit.
luv maddy
Hi Kate
Im a big fan of your book Destroying Avalon. I felt it is like a true story becdause im sure alot of kids go through these things or at least think of cyber bulling.
So what I did was I got inspiration for the book Destroying Avalon by writing a book my self based on Destroying Avalon where a girl gets bullied and I called my book Destroying Jordan. I guess its nothing like yours but it is really based on yours and I got the inspiration from you. So i really want to thank you for writing such a fabulous book!!
Best Wishes
Jane
ps. Keep Writing!!!!
Hi Neil,
Like i always say grammar is best left to the professionals-the editors that is!!!
Hi Elilish, Maddy and Jane,
Thanks for the kind words and forgive me for addressing you all in one ‘foul swoop’ as a friend of mine would say- because the internet has been down here for over two weeks and it’s the only way to catch up!
It is a wonderful thing to receive comments like (all) yours about a book- it makes a body feel like they’ve achieved something. So thank you, and thank you again! With regard to film rights we are waiting on MGM or some other big body corporation to knock on the door! Ha! Getting a movie deal from a novel is at best remote and in Australia- remoter still!!!!! I dont think it’s doable. But I would like to let you all know in ecstasy just was bought by a Canadian publisher for North American rights- so you may soon see me leaping on Oprah’s couch!!! Wouldn’t that be a blast!!!
With regard to being inspirational to your own writing- well higher a compliment could never be paid! So thank you again.
Cheers
Kate
hi Kate
You were my english teacher in year 8 at wshs (1993)
I loved my classes with you. you were always so inspiring and easy to relate to. I do remember there were a few difficult boys in our class but you always handled them so well. I’m sure they were frustrating, though! Anyway, i just looked you up on the net to see if i could get anything on you, because you were a favourite teacher of mine and lo and behold! Here you are, a mum and a writer! i am so happy for you! i am going to find DA tomorrow and i look forward to reading it. I really appreciated your kindness and patience when you were my teacher…
thanks
and good luck for the future
Vanessa
Hiya – I read your book and I thought it was really AWESOME! I wish I could write an insparational book like yours! I’m doing an essay on it at schooL~ CAN’T WAIT IT’S GOING TO BE SOO EASY!!
Hi there,
Great books! My high school classes have loved both ‘Destroying Avalon’ and ‘In Ecstasy’…so much so that I can’t actually get them to STOP reading! Strange phenomenon :p
Any chance of a study guide for ‘In Ecstasy’ being put onto your site?
Ta
Hi Kate my name is Nicole and I’m thirteen and i enjoyed your book on ‘destroying Avalon’ i cried when Marshall had killed himself he was supposed to be the strong one but when he really took the cowardly exit out because he couldn’t cope this book has touched me in many way i will never be the same on the internet but that’s a good thing now i am much safer only talking to my friends and family i feel so sorry fo Avalon even though i haven’t finished i started today and im up to chapter tittle ‘Stick and bones may break your bones…’
Yours Sincerely
Nicole