I’ve always believed that a book is a partnership between the writer and the reader. Over all the years that I’ve been writing, letters from my readers have been very important in my life. I have alternately been praised, corrected and even told how the book should have been written. In some cases, letters have inspired me to write other books. This was the case in THE BEARS’ HOUSE, which I never intended to have a sequel. But because of letters from my readers, I ended up writing FRAN ELLEN’S HOUSE.