“That was an exciting day.” Slumber Party was published in 1985 Pike’s second book, Weekend, came out the next year. “I got tons of rejection for six years before I got an offer on one of my books, Slumber Party,” the author wrote on his Facebook page. Then he tried selling a book called Seasons of Passage with similar results.
Initially, he tried to sell a book called The Starlight Crystal (unrelated to his later novel) that he claimed “was a mess,” recalling that he’d sometimes glue pages of his manuscript together to see whether anyone actually looked at it and would have the book returned in the same state. He tried his hand at sci-fi and mystery without much luck. Christopher Pike got “tons of rejection letters” before selling Slumber Party.īefore he was a YA horror author, Pike-who had wanted to be a writer since high school-was painting houses and doing computer programming. (The author doesn't do many interviews, so many of these revelations come directly from writings on his official Facebook page.) 1. dinosaur people?! Read on for behind-the-scenes stories about, and the inspirations for, some of Pike’s most popular books. That might not have been far from reality: In his three-decade career, the author has sold millions of books, with plots ranging from teens framing friends for their deaths to teens traveling through time to teens who were actually. Urn:oclc:182580884 Republisher_date 20120319102433 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120319012742 Scanner the ‘90s, it felt like every teenager had their nose buried in a Christopher Pike novel. OL1000822W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 88.41 Pages 166 Ppi 600 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0340505907
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