“Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry” – Will Hobbs
Born on this date in 1947, Hobbs grew up in a military family, moving often. When his dad was stationed in Alaska, “I fell in love with mountains, rivers, fishing, baseball, and books,” he said. After college and marriage, he settled in the southwest mountains of Colorado where he began teaching and writing.
The author of 22 novels for “Tweens” and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories, Hobbs credits his sense of audience to 14 years teaching junior high reading and English. When he turned to writing, he set his stories mostly in wild places he knew from firsthand experience.
“So much of writing is discovery,” he said. “Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart is beating, and I'm racing down a path thinking, this is the route, it will get me there, as I turn this way and then that.”
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