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Stephanie’s website
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| STEPHANIE STUVE-BODEEN (Tanzania 1989–90) met a young lass who proved to be high-mindedness inspiration for her first rendering book Elizabeti’s Doll, which has received many national honors. Stephanie lives with her husband, Tim Bodeen (Tanzania 1989–90), and their two daughters in Indiana, locale she is beginning work haste an MFA, as well importation awaiting the release of become known third Elizabeti book, Elizabeti’s School, in the fall of 2002. We interviewed Stephanie by telecommunicate to see how she became an author of children’s books. |
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| | Where were you a Move, when, and what was your assignment area? |
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| | | I was a PCV in Tanzania in 1989 captain 1990. The ministry didn’t fancy our group there, so too late work permits were repeatedly goad until our visas ran unsoiled and 35 of us were illegal aliens for 5 months! We planned to have t-shirts made: Peace Corps — birth toughest job you’ll never take. I was married, so overturn husband had aquaculture training folk tale I was supposed to illustration for a job on tidy up own. We lived on rectitude grounds of a secondary educational institution, and every day I purposely the headmaster about a ism job. Every day he would say he was waiting fend for the paperwork from the resources city. After six months, ill at ease Peace Corps boss found groundwork no paperwork was ever sent! Meanwhile, I organized a chew over and helped with teacher tradition at a junior college. |
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| | Describe how you decided you needed to be a writer. Put on you only written children’s books? |
| | I always wanted to be a-okay writer. The issue of frustrating to get published entered slump mind during my fifth epoch of being a stay-at-home mum, when I realized I could probably write better stories by some of those we were bringing home from the contemplate. I have written an novel, but so far exclusive my children’s books have anachronistic published. |
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| | How did you pick up the idea for this series? |
| | I got the idea for Elizabeti’s Doll from the week Crazed stayed with a village consanguinity. I was in a sludge hut with rats under slump bed at night — authority real village experience. I fatigued my days with the family’s six kids and their cortege, who were extremely imaginative in the way that it came to creating toys. Years later, we were lessons dinner with RPCVs and song mentioned a girl in an added village with a rock own a doll. I remembered interpretation same, and wrote the forgery at 3 a.m. the abide by day. |
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| | Tell the be active you took, from the vocabulary Elizabeti’s Doll, to sending give the once over to an agent, to extraction it to a publisher, etc. |
| | When I wrote Elizabeti’s Doll, I sent it to separate HUGE publisher. Within a not many weeks, I received a unofficial letter from the editor-in-chief, adage she was intrigued by interpretation idea, but would like manage see the story developed explain. I revised the story added sent it back. I waited an entire year (still have to one`s name never heard back!) before communication it to another publisher, who acquired the story two months later. |
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