I suppose I write exactly like I read, which is widely and with little respect to genre. So we’d love to hear about how this very broad and prolific writing career developed.What’s your trick for shifting from true crime narrative in The 57 Bus (and your NYTimes article on the same), or your recent piece on parole to picture books about adorable snails?ĭashka Slater: I love that you’re letting me pretend that I genre-jump in a thoughtful, pre-planned way instead of randomly hopscotching from category to category! The truth is that I started out as a poet, stumbled accidentally into journalism, took time off from journalism to write a novel for adults, had a baby and started writing children’s books while still working as a journalist, and now have a secret hope of hitting all the squares on the writer’s bingo card because I’m already halfway there and so I might as well go for the brass ring. But you also write amazing non-fiction for older readers, such as The 57 Bus, as well as journalistic pieces for The New York Times and other publications. Joy Preble: You have written some of our absolute favorite picture books - Escargot, obviously, and also The Antlered Ship, come immediately to mind. And now for what Dashka had to say to us!
When you order, please state if you’d like a signed book plate, which at this moment, we have been told is possible. Until then, Dashka was kind enough to take time to answer our many questions that we might have asked her in person! We hope you find her responses as fascinating as we do, and we also hope that you will order A BOOK FOR ESCARGOT and let us ship it to you. Our school visits will be happening virtually, and we’re crossing our fingers that we can bring Dashka to the store one way or another! And then came the spread of COVID-19 and events began to cancel one by one.ĭashka was scheduled for mid-April though, so we held on to hope until a few days ago when alas, the physical tour was sadly cancelled.
So of course, Laura and I were totally over the moon with excitement when Macmillan told us that they’d accepted our pitch for events and school visits for its fabulous author, Dashka Slater, for the sequel, A BOOK FOR ESCARGOT. ESCARGOT, the story of a fabulous French snail, is one of our favorite picture books here at Brazos.
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