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Steve Watkins will be signing books at
Jabberwocky Books in
Fredericksburg on April 11.
Please contact the store for times.
Steve Watkins' Web site:
http://stevewatkinsbooks.com/
Will local readers recognize any area
references in the series?
SW: Oh absolutely. City schools, the battlefields,
downtown, Chatham Manor, the river, I-95, the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Sunken Road. The list
grows longer with each book I write in the series.
The fourth book in the Ghosts of War
series, slated for release next year, is about
the Battle of Fredericksburg. Tell us about the
local research that went into writing this book.
SW: I've read a number of books on the Battle of
Fredericksburg, and a great note of thanks here to
the Rappahannock Regional Library and the great
librarians we have downtown and in all the branch-
es. They also have all my books on the shelves,
a definite plus. Being able to walk the battlefields
literally every day has been an enormous help in
visualizing everything that happened in the battle.
What do you have in the works that readers
can look forward to down the road?
SW: My next Candlewick book is called Great Falls,
and it's a YA book that deals with post-Iraq and
Afghanistan war veterans and their families. Great
Falls is also set in Fredericksburg, and western and
northern Virginia, and it, too, has landmarks that
local folks will recognize.
Please visit FredParent's web site for the full-length
interview with Steve Watkins.
I manage to work
in a few familiar
(Fredericksburg) names
here and there in
the books.
