Q: What is your full name
(including your middle name)?
A: Diana Sue Curtis Regan
Q: How many brothers and/or sisters do you have?
A: One brother, David, and one sister, Donna.
(Yes, we were the “3 Ds”)
Q: Where did you grow up?
A: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Q: What did you want to be when you grew up?
A: A school teacher or an actress. Then I found out
they are the same.
Q: What was your favorite thing to do when you
were a kid? Why?
A: Go camping in the Colorado mountains with
my cousins. (We slept outside without a tent
and never once thought about bears—oh, my.)
Q: What was your favorite book then? Why?
A: Anne of Green Gables. Because I had red braids
down to my waist and everyone told me I looked
like Anne. (Okay, some said I looked like
Pippi Longstocking, but I ignored them.)
Q: What was your worst subject in school?
A: Chemistry
Q: What is one of your most embarrassing moments?
A: A boy asked me if I wanted to go to an upcoming
dance. I assumed he meant WITH HIM. He didn’t.
I found this out after I told everyone he was my
date for the dance.
Q: Why do you write books for kids?
A: It’s my attempt to create the kind of stories
that kept me glued to the army blanket beneath
the apple tree on summer afternoons with my
nose in a book.
Q: Do you have any pets? What are they?
A: I am owned by a cat named Gracie.
(Look here)
Q: Which book written by someone else do you
wish YOU had written?
A: The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
Q: What’s the first thing you do when you
start a new book?
A: Buy and label a binder notebook to keep all
the notes, drafts, and letters from editors
in one place. This officially makes it a new
book-in-progress.
Q: What is the hardest thing about writing?
A: Sitting down and beginning.
Q: What are you afraid of?
A: Deep water, large bugs, and tornados
Q: If you had three wishes, what would they be?
A: 1. A wish that people everywhere were
kinder to each other.
2. A wish that something I’ve written
might have the same impact on a young reader
that books by Lloyd Alexander had on me.
3. A wish never to encounter deep water,
large bugs, or tornados.
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