It was so fun to be able to make her day like that! The girl didn’t have her book with her (obviously) but since I was going to be there a couple of days, I went ahead and arranged a time to meet her and sign her books. One of my favorite fan experiences was when I was traveling for several family events last summer and was recognized in a bookstore for the first time when I dropped in to sign stock. What is the best fan experience you’ve had and which was the most surprising? As far as I am concerned, my fans are the most important part of my success and I owe them respect for that! I love my fans!!

That being said, I have a Facebook fanpage and am still able to reply to every comment, and I love being on Twitter and try to respond to fans there as much as possible. I try to be! I actually stopped answering fanmail lately and I feel badly about that, but with an infant daughter, revisions and traveling all coming together, there just wasn’t time. How do you keep in close contact with your fans and how important is it to you? With four young children having a stay-at-home dad to help out makes all the difference! Even with all of the marketing and push my publisher gave me, the actual results were overwhelming! The very best part of my success has been that not only am I a full-time writer, but my husband gets to stay home as well as my lawyer/tech-guy/personal assistant. but I think we are all too realistic to actually expect it. I think every author hopes that their book will be bestselling, become a movie, launch into a world-wide phenomenon, etc. Looking back, did you think the Wings series would be so popular or has it gone beyond what you imagined? What has been the best part of your success?

Here is our exclusive author interview with Aprilynne Pike: We are excited to announce that the New York Times bestselling author recently chatted with OBS about how she feels about the popularity of Wings, her fans and an upcoming movie based on the popular series. OBS fans, do you recall when we covered the young adult faerie novel Wings in May of 2010 for our monthly Book Club? Have you seen the slue of exclusives on the series and have had the pleasure of reading the Q & A with Aprilynne Pike in Oct 2009? Well, we have another exclusive for you.

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