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We’re thrilled to be talking to Emmaline Cagney from Andra Watkins’ historical paranormal suspense, To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis .  She is coming to us all the way from the great state of Tennessee.  It is a pleasure to have her with us today at Pimp That Character! Thank you for this interview, Emmaline.  Now that the book has been written, do you feel you were fairly portrayed or would you like to set anything straight with your readers? Well, I’m nine in the book, and I sometimes feel like maybe I was too baby-fied. It makes me mad to see how many times I was scared. I look back on my adventure with Merry now, and I wish I could’ve held it closer, breathed it in more, without fear. What do you believe is your strongest trait? Everybody tells me I’m stubborn. Even Daddy says that, and I always tell him I was stubborn enough to find him. Worst trait? Um……..I worry. I wonder what happened to Aunt Bertie. To my mother....

We’re thrilled to have here today the young Joan Heartwell from author Joan Heartwell’s new memoir, Hamster Island . Joan Heartwell is 17, a high school student living in Somewhere, New Jersey. It is a pleasure to have her with us today at Pimp That Character! Thank you so for this interview, Joan. Now that the book has been written, do you feel you were fairly portrayed or would you like to set anything straight with your readers? I like how the author portrayed me as a hero sometimes, out to save my brother, who was developmentally disabled, from a cruel world full of ignorant kids who were willing to bully him for a laugh or two (and in one case, for a heck of a lot of money). But I hate that she had to also talk about how ashamed I felt sometimes to have a brother like him. Yes, it’s true, there were times I went out of my way to pretend I didn’t know him, but so what? Most kids would have done the same. Do you feel the author did a good job colorizing your p...