Line #14 Creator/KAApplegate


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8	->''"[[SarcasmMode So sorry to get you into writing. What a horrible thing to inflict on you. Should have just sold you crack]]."''
9	-->-- '''K. A. Applegate''', in a Website/{{Reddit}} [[http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gzhau/iam_ka_applegate_author_of_animorphs_and_many/c1rfnwf Q&A session in 2011]]
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11	Katherine Alice Applegate (born October 9, 1956) is an American science fiction author from Ann Arbor, Michigan, who is best known for writing ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' and ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' with her husband, Creator/MichaelGrant.
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13	[[http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal She is also the winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal]] for ''Literature/TheOneAndOnlyIvan'', which was released as a motion picture by Disney in August 2020, direct to Disney+. (See the trailer for that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-uIQDRS4a8 here]].) She is ''not'' retired, no matter what Animorphs fans might tell you - [[SameFaceDifferentName she's just writing under her first and last name.]]
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15	Her personal website can be found [[https://katherineapplegate.com here]] and her Website/{{Twitter}} can be found [[https://twitter.com/kaaauthor here]].
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17	!!Works by Katherine Applegate with their own trope pages include:
18	[[index]]
19	* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''
20	* ''Literature/{{Endling}}''
21	* ''Literature/EveAndAdam''
22	* ''Literature/{{Everworld}}''
23	* ''Literature/TheOneAndOnlyIvan''
24	** ''Literature/TheOneAndOnlyBob''
25	* ''Literature/{{Remnants}}''
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27	!!Other works by Katherine Applegate include
28	* ''Wishtree''
29	* ''Crenshaw''
30	* ''The Buffalo Storm''
31	* ''Home of the Brave''
32	* ''Willowdeen''
33	* The ''Roscoe Riley Rules'' Series
34	* The ''Literature/MakingOut'' series, originally published as ''Boyfriends/Girlfriends'', republished as ''The Islanders'' in 2015.
35	* The ''Making Waves'' series, originally published as ''Ocean City''
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37	!!Katherine Applegate and her works provide examples of:
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40	* ApprovalOfGod: She's been very supportive of ''Animorphs'' fandom. Except the artwork of Tobias doing it with Harry Potter.
41	-->[[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gzhau/iam_ka_applegate_author_of_animorphs_and_many/c1rfs73?context=3 I'm just not sure raptor-wizard sex is advisable.]]
42	* CreatorCouple: With Creator/MichaelGrant in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'', ''Literature/{{Remnants}}'', ''Making Out'', and ''Literature/EveAndAdam''.
43	* DearNegativeReader: She [[http://web.archive.org/web/20010807200502/www.morphz.com/posts/1061001.htm wrote a letter]] to the Animorphs fans who didn't like the ending.
44	* DigitalPiracyIsOkay: In 2011, when the ''Animorphs'' books were still out of print, [[http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gzhau/iam_ka_applegate_author_of_animorphs_and_many/c1rfte1 she stated she had no objection to people continuing to circulate them as free ebooks]]. She would've preferred to have them officially available for sale in ebook form, but it wasn't something Scholastic was actively doing at the time.
45	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: This is what she wants Animorphs fans to do.
46	* MeanBoss: To her ghostwriters, according to [[http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gzhau/iam_ka_applegate_author_of_animorphs_and_many/c1rfqin a Reddit AMA]]:
47	-->"[My husband and I] started as ghostwriters, so we saw it more as opportunity. We paid well, but not very well to be honest. We wrote outlines (we suck at outlines) and then got all bitchy when we didn't like what we got. Neither of us is an editor so we weren't really capable of offering decent guidance. So we tended just to sort of slash and burn. Basically without meaning to be we were probably [[SelfDeprecation horrible assholes to work with.]]"
48	* MoustacheDePlume: Ambiguous initials sub-type. Her full name is Katherine Alice Applegate. She eventually switched to using her first name.
49	* OldShame:
50	** Back in TheNineties, she wrote ''Barf-O-Rama'', which is exactly what it sounds like based on the name: disgusting books built around barf scenes. For obvious reasons, it was done under a pseudonym.
51	** Really, anything she did before Animorphs. And even then, she didn't like the endings of ''Everworld'' and ''Remnants'' any more than her fans did, and she's also lamented the number of PlotHoles in Animorphs that fans have found.
52	* SheAlsoDid: Applegate was a ghostwriter for ''Sweet Valley Twins'', a SpinOff of ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'', before she started writing her own books.

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