Imagine that you could get a brand new copy of Spy School Goes East….
With several pages of bonus material…
And it would only cost you HALF of what the book normally costs.
Well that’s exactly what you can get at Barnes & Noble right now.
You get the book… plus a special, shiny cover… plus the bonus material. And you only pay 50% of the cost.
This is such a deal, I probably don’t even need to tell you what the bonus material even is. But in case you’re wondering:
I went on a trip to China to do research for SSGE and i took a lot of notes. The bonus material is some of those notes. Things I noticed in China that interested and fascinated me. So you’ll get a look at what inspired the story.
How do you take advantage of this amazing offer?
Mr. Gibbs. Did you get inspiration from somewhere for the names of the characters in your book or did you choose them from a person? Like Sasha. Or did these names come to your mind at once? Or did you choose them based on their meaning? I am asking for my book because I chose the name like this!
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I have named hundreds of characters by this point and used variations on all of the ways you mentioned. Sometimes I fiddle with names that I like for years; other times I make them up on the spur of the moment, and sometimes i get them from people I know.
Mr.Gibbs,
Hello! I was thinking about your books yesterday when I was trying to draw. Notice I don’t want to sound weird . But anyway, I just wanted to know what you did over the summer! I went to my beach house in San Diego. We traveled very far to go there. That’s pretty much it. Basically swimming,swimming and swimming. Also, what do you think Erica did that summer? Or the cast? Well, I hope you had a good day and a great summer!
-Sincerely Zyrah
Zyrah P
I had a very busy summer. I took my daughter to Panama, my son to Iceland — and I got married.
I’m sure the gang from Spy School was at Spy Camp, and then saved the world a few times.
Hope you enjoyed SD!
Mr.Gibbs
Congrats on your marriage! I hoped you had a fun time traveling!
Congratulations on your marriage, Mr. Gibbs! I hope you have fun always and everywhere! And your books become famous! The most famous books in the world!
Mr. Gibbs, I may sound strange, but I want to ask you a question about your country. How is your country? the weather? His children? His parents? Is everything like your book? Or did you make everything look good or bad? I would like to get more information, if I can, that’s why I asked a few questions about your country.
Spy School
The United States is a very large country with over 350 million people. So different people would give different answers to many of those questions. I love my country — but I do not agree with our current president on just about anything he says or does. The weather varies greatly in this country depending on where you are.
As for how I present the United States in my books: The geography and locations are often very accurate (although I will make up places as well). I am sure i have made the CIA and other government institutions look far less competent than they actually are.
Mr. Gibbs,
I absolutely love all of the series you’ve written, specifically Spy School. I really like the way you write the characters. Growing up (and still living) in the DC area, I think it’s cool how most of the earlier books in the series take place around there. It’s also cool that the main characters travel to places all over the world too, and I’ve actually learned a lot about those places from your books, among other things.
Hello Stuart! Spy school is my favourite series. And I have a question … Do you know when the Spy school movie comes out? Ciao!
ericahale –
Glad to hear that you’ve enjoyed the books and learned some fun things about DC!
Annabel –
Firstly, SS is not being turned into a movie. It is currently being turned into a streaming series on Disney + — I hope. Whether or not it gets made is still up in the air. Which means there is no release date as of right now. If it does get made, I promise I will post about the release date.
Mr. Gibbs, how do you feel when you see that the readers of your books love you so much? I had another question, how do you come up with the riddles in your book? Have you ever said to yourself in the middle of a half-finished book, what am I writing?! I always get this feeling while writing the book, sometimes I think to myself that maybe I am too young. I am 14 years old and my 15th birthday is in 16 days. But I have read nearly 200 different books many times and at the age of 8 I wrote two short books, the only copy of which is with my mother 🙂
Blak_monster
It feels amazing to hear that someone enjoys my books.
I come up with the riddles the same way I come up with everything else: by brainstorming.
I outline all my books carefully before I start writing, so no, I never find myself in the middle of a book, wondering what I am doing.
Mr. Gibbs,
I’m going to DC soon for my birthday. So far, I’ve booked a Capital tour and a White House tour via my local congressman.
Do you have any other fun suggestions of things we could do? Unfortunately, the FBI HQ tour was unavailable.
I know you probably have a lot of experience with this, so I just thought I’d ask!
– StuFan
Also- I’m writing my first AP Lang Rhetorical Analysis essay on Tuesday. Any advice?
StuFan
All the Smithsonian museums are great, depending on what your interests are. And I do like the Washington Monument and the National Zoo.
StuFan
I don;’t even know what an AP Lang Rhetorical Essay is.
Now that I see it, I realize that I haven’t messaged you in a long time. I want to say something about myself. Today I finished the first volume of the Natan series by Lauren Roberts, it was truly a masterpiece. Like your books. Can you write a book for a higher age group? Try at least once. I have volumes 1 to 11 of your books. Of course, I don’t have volume 10, but I read it like volume 12 and 13. The fans of your books are getting disappointed little by little. Because according to them, from volume 10 onwards, you only filled the pages. Neither emotional nor emotional shock. I know you want your books to be informative, that’s why you put a lot of general information in it. But many are just looking for excitement. If they wanted to get information, they would look for scientific books. I myself love your books. And in my opinion, you are the best writer for children and teenagers. Of course, you have room for improvement. You might say to yourself that a child is advising me, telling me what to do and what not to do. But Stuart Gibbs, if you listen to these children and teenagers, your books will be more famous. Because the readers of your books are children and teenagers. I did not and do not intend to offend. Please read my comment and answer
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For every person who writes to me asking me to do one thing, there are hundreds of people who write to me asking me to do something else. I can’t satisfy everyone. I can only write the books that I am inspired to write. So far, that has led to millions of books sold to readers around the world. The way I figure it, that’s pretty good.
Mr. Gibbs,
If spy school IS being turned into a series, I would love information on how to audition for it. I love your books and would love to act in a show for it.
-charlieTH 🙂
charlieTH:)
Please see my blog post about the series for info on casting.