They spent the next day writing their responses back to ‘Erin Hunter’ rather than the real world UK writer who leads the Warriors writing team. It also didn’t seem to have diminished my boys’ ardor for all things Warriors. Did the form letter have to be that informative? It turns out the author isn’t really the author but one of four authors, that the idea wasn’t hers but a publishing house’s idea that they shopped to several writers, and that the name ‘Erin Hunter’ is a pseudonym that was chosen so the Warrior books would be shelved in bookstores in close proximity to Brian Jacques’ Redwall books (all of which my boys and I have read and loved). To say the letter left them a little confused, albeit still delighted to have received any response, is to put it mildly. They enjoy it so much that they have written stories along Warrior lines just one step short of fan fiction and written to the author. One of my younger boys’ favorite book series is Warriors by Erin Hunter, actually several series now of novels about feral cats.
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