This morning, we finished reading ‘Neil Flambé and the Duel in the Desert’ by Kevin Sylvester (@sylvesterartwork). We began reading the six-book series when school started, way back in September, and the students have loved them - they’ve become really invested in the characters, both through Sylvester’s great writing, as well as his fantastic sketches that he sprinkles throughout his books. The sixth book is the last one of the series that’s been published, and the students were wondering if he was working on another one (especially because it ends with such a cliffhanger!). ‘Well... let’s tweet him!’, I said, so we worked as a class to compose a tweet, and then posted it. We moved on to Math, but twelve minutes later, I heard my computer ‘bing’, and it was a reply from Mr. Sylvester to our tweet! He directed us to a blog post, and basically indicated that the situation is similar to where the third book in his #MINRS series (which is coming out later this month) was a year ago - the draft was written, but no go-head from the publishers to publish it, until more of the earlier books of the series sold. The students immediately started brainstorming ways of ‘getting the word out’ about how awesome Neil and all of his adventures are - it looks like I might have an unplanned persuasive writing unit on my hands! Love it! (PS The Neil Flambé books are awesome - I love them, too!) via Instagram https://ift.tt/2HFzsTr
