From Amelia Klock

• Diana, I wrote to you once and got a very nice response. Thank you very much! You are my favorite author and my role model as a writer. Are you currently working on a book? If you are, please keep us posted on how you're doing and when we can hopefully expect it!

From Grant

• Dear Miss Jones, My name is Grant, I love your books especially The Cronicles Of Chestomanci volume 1&2 allthough I was a bit disapointed when I was reading Volume 2 because, there was less involvment of Chestomanci and that he came very late in Witch Week in the last four chapters I belive. Other than that the books were great and I hope you will make more, and I must say that your books are the only books that make me want to read on there was a spot in between where I had to wait a whole week to get volume 2 of Chrestomanci that I read volume 1 over again. your best fan, Grant

From Nathan Beit-Aharon

• Dear Diana, Best of wishes, I hope you get well soon. My whole family are fans of yours, we live in Massachusetts, USA. I love all your books that I have read (I have yet to read Yes, Dear and Tough Guide), but I especially love Tale of Time City, Dogsbody, Lives of Christopher Chant, Dalemark Quartet (especially Spellcoats) and HEXWOOD! I read them all again and again and reccomend them to all my friends. You are simply the best! Normally, I don't consider myself a fantasy reader, since 99% of fantasy STINKS, but I have read the Harry Potter series. When I read the third book, I was infuriated! A major character was Sirius Black, a framed person who changes into a dog, who's quest has been to prove his innocence. Her books, which I consider celebrated mediocrity, had smelled of you already, especially of the Chrestomanci books, but this was the last straw. I thought to myself: "How dare she! Diana must know, and she must have approved, but if she doesn't..." Anyway, have you met J. K. Rowling? Did she ask your permission? Is she a fan of yours? She should be. So should everybody. Get well soon, Your devoted reader, Nathan Beit-Aharon P.S. I was so happy to see by your response to questions by Jews that you are not anti-semitic. I was so afraid, since Europe and the BBC are anti-semitic.

From Maya

• Hello Diana, I am currently in Japan on an exchange program and because I have been a Ghibli fan for many years I happened to see a book which said that it was going to be the next animated Ghibli film. And so, although I barely ever read books in Japanese, I began to read Howl`s Moving Castle in Japanese. I have to tell you that I just couldn`t stop! Even though it was in Japanese! The book is the best ever!! And just imagining how Ghibli will be animating it makes me jump with joy!! You are choosing the greatest animation team every to animate your book! I am now planning on getting my parents to send some more of your books (in English!) to me! I can`t wait! Its really unfortunate that we won`t be able to see the movie in Britian though!! (I am originally a London University student). Why does Disney avoid Britain when it comes to Miyazaki films!! Its just not fair! yours Maya

From Ronit Michal

• Dear Dianna, i really love your books. i read fantasy and not sci fi and it is almost impossible for me to find books that i like, so you should take it as a colmpliment that i love your books the best as well as harry potter. I am a very picky reader, but i like your books. in the crestomanci quartet, though, there is a contradiction. i dont understand it. in charmed life, cat chant had nine lives because he had no parralel self. but ghis sister janet/gwendolin, from another world said she had a brother who died during birth, and cat said he almost died during birth. how could this be? thank you.

From Betsy Thomas

• In case fan mail cheers you up or helps you heal faster: I am a graduate student at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. I have always enjoyed your "Childrens" books, but for the last year or so I have re-read them time and again . . . whenever grad school gets overwhelming I stop thinking about homework, curl up in bed, and re-read any of your books that are close to hand. Thank you for books that are enjoyable to read for the tenth time as well as the first . . . and though I won't pester you for more of them (that would be unmannerly, and besides, I find that I never want to do a thing less than when people are after me to get it done) I will tell you that I will certainly enjoy reading them when you are done. I hope you heal quickly!

From Joan Pulver

• I just finished reading Deep Secret. I was wondering if you have ever written any other books about the "Magids" or if there will be another book about these characters. I really enjoyed Ruberts bumbleing about and the character of Nick.

From Kim Britnell

• Hi, I recently became a fan of yours after reading Black Maria and then Archer's Goon. I had an old copy of the book, and it said 'As shown on TV' on the front. I managed to find a few mentions of it - including one on this website - but I really wanted to know if YOU - or anyone else reading this message - knows of anywhere or any way that I can get hold of the video of the series. Please reply asap, and thanx for being better than J K Rowling!

From Monique

• Dear Diana, I just read Volume 1 of the Chronicles of Chrestomanci and am eagerly awaiting monday when I can go and buy Volume 2. I found the address of this site in the back of the book, and this is a very nice site. Thank you for writing that "hints about writing" piece; I always get stuck in stories myself and am definitely going to try some of you hints. Recently I've been reading quite a lot of children's books, because they make such a nice change from the stuff they make me read at university (I'm taking a degree in English, which means lots and lots of literature... *sighs*), and yours are some of the best I've read. I really liked both Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant, and can't wait to read more of your work.

From Marian & Grace

• Great news about the film offer on Black Maria. We want to see Judi Dench in the title role. Two faithful DWJ fans from Three Rivers CA

From Caroline

• Hi Ms. Jones!I'm Caroline from San Francisco,California,USA. I LOVE YOUR BOOKS!!!! My favorite book would have to be..... I don't really have a favorite book! All I know is that I have read your books a countless number of times and loved them all.I especially liked Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air, The Magicians of Caprona and The Lives of Christopher Chant (although I didn't like the part about the meraids being butchered). There is a new Harry Potter Movie that came out a couple days ago. I keep thinking to myself "Why don't they make a movie out of Diana Wynne Jones's books?"Your books are more than equal to the Harry Potter books. Anyway, I will wait for your next book to come out and hope you will go on writing more fabulos books for people of all ages.

From S Hamilton

• I'd just like to say how much I've enjoyed your books since I was a child and I first heard The Ogre Downstairs read on Jackanory (which dates me!) I then proceeded to read it aloud to my sister, who normally resisted bedtime stories furiously. I'd previously tried CS Lewis and lots of other writers - she hated them all. We laughed hysterically together at the Ogre's Eyeballs and the escaping toffee bars. I'm delighted to have found your books reappearing in the shops in shiny new editions. I particularly love the Ogre, Power of Three, the Dalemark Quartet - which I only got hold of recently - and Fire and Hemlock. I'm very sorry to hear you've been ill: my very best wishes for your recovery.

From Julie Lawrence

• Diana, I just read The Dark Lord of Derkholm, and it is so wonderful--and then I read the Dalemark Quartet. So I'm still reeling. I liked Cart and Cwidder, and Drowned Ammet, and anything prehistoric interests me, so I also liked The Spellcoats. And today I read The Crown of Dalemark. And by the end I was weeping buckets. It is so good--marvelous--fantastic--beautiful--sad! I just could not get my mind around all of my favorite characters--dead! I was severely disappointed in Hildy, who I ADORED in Drowned Ammet, and I LOVED Maewen--and I'm so, so, so glad that Mitt was one of the Undying, so that they could get together--they're PERFECT for each other!, but I must say that I really liked Moril, and I liked Navis even more (those few months in the North really changed him, didn't they?), and while they are just characters in a book I really felt drawn to them--and some of the others (it was really surprising and also very believable about Hestefan--good move), and I really felt like they were my friends. So that's why I was weeping at the end. But your books have had a marked effect on me, and I can't wait to read some more, and would you please write more about Mitt and Maewen, I want to know exactly how she summons Tanaqui. Thank you for everything and writing these fantastic books.

From Johanna

• Dear Diana, Thank you for the hours of reading enjoyment you have given me. I love your books, I'm 14, and have been hooked for years. The Crown of Dalemark left me wanting more, though. (Actually, I always feel like that when I finish one of your book. They're so good I don't want them to end.) I would love to know what happens to Maewen and Mitt. The Dark Lord of Derkholm showd up in my library'y new books basket a few months ago. I didn't know that it had been published, and I was gleeful whem I came across it. All of my friends have been crowing over Harry Potter, and I always tell them that, yes, they're fine, but they should try some of YOU'RE Books to get really good fantasy. I can't wait for your next book!

From Maya (short for Mayelina) McKenzie

• Dear Diana, I have to say right out that I love your books, but have yet to read them all. Last night I finished "Crown of Dalemark" after reading it for at least a week--and that in itself it very different for me because I usually am a speed reader. I must say, I didn't admire the first three books nearly as much. I thought that The Spellcoats especially was rather weak, although the idea of Dalemarkian prehistory and the idea of Undying people intrigued me. However, I decided to read the last book, hoping, I must confess, more than anything to hear about Hildy, and/or Moril and Kialan--and also Brid. In that I was disappointed. I can't imagine how Hildy could have changed from Drowned Ammet--but she is, in Crown of Dalemark, as Kialan put it, a white-faced sow. I was also mad when Mitt refused to see Kialan. I also wish that you had put in more about Brid and Ynen. However, I was pleased to see that it was a sort of family reunion. I very much liked Maewen. But the idea of time travel for me is rather, well, depressing. Imagine, as Maewen does, going back in time and falling in love, and then being jerked back and seeing the person you love's tomb. I was very happy that Mitt was of the Undying, but my own personal favorite, Moril, suffered a severe, how shall I put it, heartbreak, and I don't think that was fair. I also really liked Navis in this book--he made me laugh. What can I say, I wish that I really knew these people. I just can't get over having Moril be dead for one hundred years at the end of the book, and Navis, and having Noreth herself die just as she begins her ride is barbaric to my mind. I think that perhaps you could have thought of a new villian--I don't know if you've read Tamora Pierce's novels about Alanna, but her last Alanna book was disappointing to me because she had to dredge up a new villian (Roger of Conte) and bring him back from the dead, which is essentially what you did. Not that it didn't work, but....... I also think that this wants another book. I myself have questions that I want answered, such as: how exactly does Maewen find Tanaqui without the cwidder, and: is Maewen herself one of the Undying (I hope so!), how did Mitt fake his own death convincingly, and are any of the others Undying? And also: couldn't Maewen simply take herself back to Mitt's time by perhaps smashing the glass in the cabinet and snatching the gold statue of the One? I think that you should write another novel about Dalemark, please. Of course, I am sorry to hear about your health. But truly I think that however long it takes you, another novel about Dalemark would be brilliant. Thank you.

From Lauren Morrison

• I have one request: write a sequel to Crown of Dalemark. It is quite possibly the best book I have ever read, and there are too many what if's at the end. Write a sequel and I will forgive you.

From Jonica Barba

• My name is Jonica Barba. I recently started to reading your books. I have read only a few of them, but already I'm looking forward to reading your other books. The Chrestomanci stories interest me the most, actually. What I like best about your writing is the vivid details you put in your stories. I'm glad I read your books as well as other author's books because I, myself, am a writer. Reading your books inspires me. The books I read sort of teaches me to add my own vivid settings and characters. I hope I can become a great writer like you. ~Jonica Barba~

From Ellen

• Diana I absoloutely LOVE your books! I have a friend called Chris Rooke who says he ran over your tree. I ENVY him! My favourite book is Hexwood and I love the character of Mordion. I love writing and I have a short story buisiness! Please reply because you are my favourite author ever and I have read EVERYTHING in the library and my books don't fit onto two huge bookshelves!!!!!

From Lindsay Hill from B.C.

• Dear Diana Wynne Jones, Thank you so much for answering my overflowing gob of questions last summer. I never really thought you'd have the time, and knowing now what a generally goofy message I left, I have to thank you again for your forbearance. The only intelligent thing I asked was something like 'what other writers have good characters and doen't assume readers are drooling morons', and you asked if I had read Philip Pullman and Lois McMaster Bujold. Of course I have! Everything I could get! But I was just lucky to come across them by chance, and I was hoping that you would make a list of some of your favourite books for your webpage, and possibly introduce some fans to authors they wouldn't come across otherwise. It might keep some of us busy until your next book comes out, without begging you to write a mile of answers for every free minute of your time!

From Sarah

• I loved your Howls moving castle!!!! Its great!!! i am going to the bookstore to get MORE!!!!!

From Natalie Costa Bir

• Do you know Diana, the only reason I want to have children is to be able to read your books to them :-). You were the best author that happened to me as a child because I can still read your books now - and do. I finished "The Crown of Dalemark" today and felt the bliss that comes from finishing a story of yours, and also the yum factor after reading about Mitt- I was so relieved he was of the undying because the thought of his death wrenched my heart. I still felt awful for poor Moril though, he reminded me alot of Cat at the end of Charmed Life. It must be quite awful to be Undying. How on earth did Mitt manage to be one coming from horrible Al, and his mother (who while nice was a little vague - and not in the same way as Chrestomanci)? I sincerely hope your health is improving, because you deserve it to do so, having entertained so many children and adults out there! May Charles' smelly cheesy feet live forever, along with the Great Caspar's hexagonal twists, and everyone fighting in the journey on the Kings Road. I love the way everyone disliked each other, and Moril's spiteful grins at Mitt's dancing. I felt very sorry for the original Noreth/Rith though, she was stabbed and gone almost at once. And how horrible that Duck turned out so, even though he kind of redeemed himself. But I suppose that people must grow up. Thank you Diana Wynne Jones for all your wonderful writing. :-) And also for answering my question on 'your men' and Odin.

From Brett Stock

• Hi Diana. My name is Brett. Right now I'm reading your book the chronicles of chrestomanci vol. 1. I love it. I am on page 273. I started the book four days ago and it is better than harry potter. who knows, you might be a billionare and have a movie of one of yoour books. you and j.k. rowling are my favorite authors. but i like you the best. is there going to be a vol. 3 of the chrestomanci books. your fave faan, brett.

From Hsiu-Hsien

• Dear Diana: My name is Hsiu-Hsien, a college student in the U.S. I've been a fan of yours since I was eleven. You cannot possibly imagine how much you made my day! After reading "Howl's Moving Castle" for the first time in five years, I was just thinking that it'd be neat if the book were made into a movie. A couple of days ago, I went to this site and discovered that Miyazaki was indeed making the movie! My stomach instantly became filled with happy butterflies, because Miyazaki is another hero of mine. I just wanted to say thank you for writing so many books and for choosing Studio Ghibli to animate your work (now I sound like their PR person). I hope your back gets better soon!

From Kathleen Klocko

• I just discovered your site. What a wonderful resource! I've been reading your books since I was 12 and, at 29, am still reading. I love your newer adult books. I go through "Jones" binges. Every six months I read all your books straight through. Thank you for the wonderful stories! On another topic, if you're having problems with your back, have you considered using voice recognition software on your computer? You put a headset on, drape yourself over a comfy chair and talk to the computer. It's a pain to set up initially (I recommend you start with about 20 minutes a day, because when you start yelling at the computer, it really doesn't understand you), but it works really well if you have problems sitting at a computer typing. Anyway, I hope you feel better soon!

From Erif

• HI!!! realy psyched that i found your web site!!! How are u? Hope your feeling better. I'm a HUGE fan & I absolutely LOVE howls moving castle and the other one(whatever its called?). those are my favourite books but i love all of your books and have read ALMOST all of them. I'm writing a novel too, no name yet, and i'd like some ideas maybe? and i wonder if i can use some references to your books??? oh well. (don't worry my writing isn't usually this bad, i'm just typing so fast!!!) PLEASE e mail me, tell me what your e mail is.

From Marie Denley

• Dear Diana Wynne Jones, Thank you very much indeed for answering my question about the origin of some names in _Fire and Hemlock_. You were generously helpful. I am very sorry to hear of your recurrent spinal problems.How frustrating, as well as painful, for you! I hope this doesn't seem intrusive, but from one middle-aged woman to another, have you ever tried Reiki? It won't effect a miracle cure but it can give extraordinary relief. Also, the theory behind it would seem to be in accord with views of the universe which underlie much of your fiction. It's definitely not faith-healing. I've just rather suddenly taken early retirement from university teaching since placing my question. Even the pleasure of being able to teach your books on the special subject paper I set up wasn't enough to counteract overwork, lack of time for huge numbers of students, and cascades of administration which have turned the job from a pleasure into a torment this last decade. So I skipped out of the doors as they clanged to, with the last-ever halfway-decent early retirement deal in my pocket. Your husband (who may remember me as Marie Collins) will probably have seen a fair bit of what I describe at close hand. It's been good; time to READ instead of skim and gut, at last. Peace and (renewed) health to you both. Marie Denley

From Eric Klatt (Canada)

• I have a 1978 hardcover copy of "Charmed Life". It has no pictures the inside pages, and the front cover looks almost like a Shel Silverstein drawing. I believe it was published in 1978. I got it at a library book sale for 50 cents. what a deal. its my favorite book, except maybe "Howls Moving Castle". Chrestomanci movie, anybody?

From E.G.M.

• i hope that you are feeling well and continue to feel this way. i would just like to ask you how long it took you to write a book for example "The lives of christopher chant" in the "chrestomanci series"? i am interested to know because they are so good and i wondered if you had to sit and think for ages or you got inspiration and it just kept flowing! i would just like to add that you are my favorate author and i love all of your books!!!!!

From Stacey Lee

• Hi, Ms. Jones. I am a Korean girl who loves to read your books. i enjoyed all your books, especially the books about Chrestomanci and Howl. Please write more about Howl and Sophie. They are a really interesting pair and i enjoy reading about them. Please write more about them. I am sorry to hear about the surgery. Hope you are well. i hope to be able to read another of your wonderful boooks soon. P.S What about a chracter like Cinderella from the world of Fairy tales who meets Sophie and disgusts her with all her kindness and sweetness?

From Natalie

• Hi Diana!!! I have just read the Dalemark Quartet and I LOVED it.I am planning to read your other books as soon as I can. I am almost 14 years old in Wisconsin,USA. I hope that you might consider continuing the Dalemark Quartet when you have time,in some way,I feel that it is sort of uncomplete.Maybe you can have Mitt and Maewen be together again....Oh yeah,I have just one question,where did you come up with the characters Moril,Mitt and Maewen?They are so interesting and so funny at times!i also love the way you surprised everyone by making Mitt king,after rereding the book again,I saw all the hints that led to it and I love that in a book,keep up the great writing! Thank you for writing such great books and I am hoping you will feel better soon!!

From Kelsey Marcusssen

• Dear Ms. Diana Wynne Jones. I'm Kelsey 14, and a huge friend. My favorit book is most likley Howl's moving Castle. I love to write storys(not short) and my mom says that sense I write storys I have a big imagation. I have everything in Howl's Moving Castle just the way I imanged it. Howl all the way down to the moving castle. When reading your books I get more insprations to write when I get in a block. When I grow up I want to be a writer. There is also another really funny thing. I had never read a christomanic book until my mom bought one for me. I saw the cover of the book and decicied (before I had read the books) to right about a girl who has nine lives and goes to live a her godfather. Who lives in a never ending castle. Also her brother is a dark wirzard. I never read books as I write. so after I finished the story I read "Charmed Life". Also, something else I never let anyone read my storys and I was going to let my mom read "Nine Lives" (title of my story). But when I read your story I felt really stupid because it was like I copyed you. No offense to you at all I loved the story. It was wonderful. Well, I didn't let her read my story because she would think I sorta but didn't copy you. i thought it was really funny, and cool that we wrote a story sorta a like and I got the whole idea from the cover and you thinking about your Childern. I wrote to you before and think I said I was 13, the whole time I wrote about Howl's moving castle. I think it would be just wonderful if you to write another Howl's Moving Castle. I think that you did a wonderful job on the book . I know at least five people who are now reading the book. So, well you please write another one? Also, I know you probably don't do this will you e-mail me back if you answer. I don't get on the internet much.

From ashley

• hi there! i live in the US and have only read both the cronicles of chrestomanci. I LOVED THEM!!!!!!! I let my teacher borrow them, and she adored them! My friend read them both twice she thought they were so good! And well i'm asking you, no begging you to write a third one. i am desperate to find out what happend to Tonino! so if you could think about, or even stat to write a third one, me, kristin and Ms. Raupach would be blissful! so please do respond

From Helen O'Hara

• I just wanted to say how glad I am to see all your books in print. I read oodles of them (can you have oodles of books? Anyway...) in libraries in school and the town when I was younger, and the stories always stuck with me. I'm a particularly huge fan of The Homeward Bounders and The Magicians of Caprona, and Howl's Moving Castle. However, when I tried to get my little sister reading them they had all but disappeared from bookshops. Its only recently that I've been able to find more than one at a time. We probably have Harry Potter to thank for the rediscovery of fantasy, but whatever the reason, its meant that I can finally get hold of all of the ones I missed. Homeward Bounders made me cry, so I hope the film version comes off. Following the success of Harry Potter and the probable success of Fellowship of the Ring, fantasy may be a hot enough property so that it might. Good luck anyway, and keep writing, because I have started my younger cousins on the books, and I'm hoping there will still be new ones when I have kids of my own.

From Tristan Brown

• Dear Diana my name is Tristan I love your books I cant wate for your next book

From ?

• I just finished reading the book 'year of the griffin' and I loved it! I've read many of your other books, and they have all become personal favorites. I hope that you will write a sequel to 'year of the griffin'. I (along with many other fans) would enjoy it immensely. I particularly enjoyed the part when Blade falls for Claudia. I would love it if we readers could see more of that relationship later. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful talent with the rest of the world!

From Sophie

• I luv all ur chrestomanci books i think christopher is fit. i wish u would write sum moor.my favorit character in the chrestomanci books is christopher chant. i think he is cool + funny. i like his clothes.

From Kerri

• Dear Ms. Jones, I'm so happy I found this site. I have been absolutely enthralled with your books ever since I read Charmed Lives. Whenever I've had a chance to introduce a child to reading, I always give him/her one of your books, usually Charmed Lives since that was the charmed book for me. There is something so comforting about re-reading your books. Whenever I get too stressed out, I head for the Chrestomanci series and that sets the world right for me. I hope your surgery and recovery is very successful for the selfish reason that I hope to read more books from you for many years to come. I hope you know how happy you have made so many people with your wonderful gift of story-telling. You have helped make the world a better place. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

From Kat

• Hi, I am an adoring fan of your books, although I have not had the pleasure of reading all of them. Your more recent "Year of the Griffin" was GREAT. I actually read it before "Dark Lord of Derkholm", and so didn't know the lowdown on all of the characters, but after reading them both I loved how the characters made appearances in the second book, especially Kit and Blade. However, all of your books are able to stand on their own, like so others do not. My absolute favorites of the books I have read so far are the Chrestomanci novels. I would love to see more about him! A great concept of those books are the setting in a parellel world, like but different then ours. The portrayal of those worlds are consistant throughout the series, which makes them very believable. Also, I liked in "The Lives of Christopher Chant" how you could see the way his personality evolved to become the dapper Chrestomanci we know and love. I hope to see MANY more of your books, hopefully in the very near future. P.S.- "Chrestomanci"- what a great word!

From Emily Orzech

• Merry Christmas! Thankyou so much for the beautiful card. I hope you are feeling better. Love, Emily Orzech

From Alex

• Hi diana i come from south africa and i am a huge fan. I own quite a few of your books and last year i sent you a e-mail through Mrs Yolen. I have just read The Year of the Griffin and PLEASE say that you will write some more in the series i LOVE all the characters they are so interesting and funny. The Chrestomanci series is awesome and i hope that you will also make another book on how Cat deals with being Chrestomanci. I like to know if Blade and Claudia will get together, and if Elda will go for Flury also? Carry on writing!!!!

From Shae

• I'm a big fantasy reader, and I've only read one of your books, but I must say I have fallen deeply in love with Howl's Moving Castle. It is one of the best fantasy books I have ever read. I know it's to be made an animated movie *(and for some reason, i dont like that...)* and i was wondering if you were going to write another one. But, i cant ask questions, so i just hope you read this to know I LOVE this book!!!!!

From Sara

• Hello, Mrs.Jones, I hope your health is improving. I finished reading the Dalemark Quartet this morning, and I must admit, I was disappointed in two things, though I did still love your book, and consider it as my favorite. One, the ending was a real cliffhanger for the last book of a quartet, so I hope you write more. Two, I didn't think Hern's part (he's my favourite character) though significant, I think he should've had more of a role in the book, him being the great king and all that. But I did like the way he chose and hoped not to be undying, I think that was very wise. I don't know if you have ever read this quartet called Song of the Lioness, by Tamora Pierce, but there, the enemy is brought back, to avoid making another one. But not brought back like Dracula in all his movies, where he just comes back to life because he can, but there's an explanation behind it. That's what I like in your books,you keep them classical as they were, and you explain something without the reader knowing you've explained it until the very last second. P.S. I enjoy the Harry Potter books, but I have to say that your's have much more depth and thought behind them, so I like them more.

From Colette

• Mrs Wynne-Jones Are you planning on writing any more books on Chrestomanci, Howl or the power of three? Also does your husband know someone called Nick Lee

From Lisa

• First of all I hope you are feeling better and recovering well. My question is will there ever be a sequel to DEEP SECRET. I just loved that book and can hardly bare to leave theose charecters lives for ever! So I am hoping with all my heart! Also do you know when the next book in the Darklord of Derkholm / Year of the Griffin series will be coming??? Thanks so much. Warm Wishes Lisa

From Shanleigh Wilson

• Dear Ms. Jones, I adore your books completely, entirely, and hopelessly. I first read the Chrestomanci books and loved them. Then I read Dark Lord of Derkholm and adored it. Then I read the Dalemark books and loved them with such a passion, it's almost painful. Sometimes, in a strange way, it seems like I hunger to be with Mitt, Moril, Maewen, Tanaqui and all the others in Dalemark so badly the only thing to be done is read the books again and escape into that land. I know that might sound a little crazy, but I don't know what I would do without your books. I thank you whole-heartedly for your sensational books, and for the way in which they have touched my life. Thank you. JUST A BIT ABOUT MYSELF: I'm 14 (my friend says that sometimes I remind him of Moril in the sense that I'm usually vague but I tend to notice things...), Iām a girl, I live in Texas, and I dream, above all else, to be a writer. Thank you soo much for taking the time to read this, and for touching my life.

From Claire Smerdon

• i think your books are wicked your my favourite author. i am currently reading howls moving castle and am unable to put it down .i got it for christmas with time of the ghost and i hope to read that soon than kyou for writing really good books

From Kat B.

• In your books the "Dalemark Quartet", the mythology of which country inspired you? The mention of Holland leads me to believe that you mean the Netherlands, am I correct in my assumption?

From Alexandra Katz

• HI! I really love your books, and I especially enjoyed the Dalemark Quartet. I know it's a quartet, so there should only be 4 books, but I think it was a really good story, and you could make an acception. Do you know the author Douglas Adams? He has the Hitchhikers trilogy, which consists of 5 books. If he can do it, I don't see why you can't. I would really like to read another book in that series. You could write about what happens when Mitt is king and like what Maewen does. That would be really cool. Well, bye!

From Sophie

• Dear Diana, At risk of being repetitive, I would beg for another Howl book. I read _Howl's Moving Castle_ again and loved it even more than the first time, if that's possible. After reading all your questions from people, I thought you might want to know that I have found a Howl, or pretty darn close. If it makes you feel any better, he's only seventeen. Being of a repetitive nature, I'm going to say I LOOOOVE your books, at least the ones I've read. Thanks for them all.

From alyssa klubeck

• i really liked howl's moving castle and i have this habit of day dreaming about sequeals never written on books i like alot. anyhow i thought it would be really neat if you wrote another sequeal to howl's moving castle. but this one could be about Morgan and his life. i keep making up adventures for him when he is my age (12)or a little bit older. also i might become an author because i've started about five books so far--do you have any tips? how i might motivate myself to finish one of my books? but thanks for listening, i really like alot of your books--i need to go, thanks for listening, a small fan--Alyssa Klubeck.

From Kit Wisdom

• How lovely to meet you. I've just enjoyed reading Dark Lord and Year of the Griffin. As an owner and trainer of horses and dogs who, encluding myself, have all been trained by my, our, cat Desdemona (not DeeDee or Desie), I thoroughly understand the mix of characters and their reason for being. I live in the country and my place is partly protected woods shared with a lot of large and very small wild life who all feel completely safe. The deer birth their fawns in my front field which goes unmowed until late June when birthing is done. A resident woodchuck family proide live entertainment for my three Jack Russells. A friendly skunk, Pepeta la Phew, knows to visit before 11 or 12 pm when she and her family eat the grubs that live in their part of my lawn. Everyone who is wild or tame gets along with minimum restrictions (fences included) so we may enjoy eachother. Thank you for a wonderful read and exciting memories. I look forward to another book involving Derkholm's family wherever they may be..... And yes, I will explore the other adentures about which you have written.

From Sophie

• Hello! I am 11 years old and one of my best friends got me hooked on your books. I think you should write another Howl book that tells about Sophies child. I really like the Howl books 'cause my name is Sophie too.

From Samantha

• Hi Diana! I don't know if you actually read this or not but I really hope you do. I absolutely ADORE your books!!! I've read them about a hundred times already, especially the Chrestomanci ones. I was just wondering if you're going to put out another book. PLEASE DO!!! And maybe say ABOUT when it would come out too? On your webpage or something?

From Hsiu-Hsien

• Dear Diana: Are there any plans for a sequel to Year of the Griffin? Besides absolutely adoring the griffins (especially Kit!) and Derk and Lukin and all the rest, I'm now sort of in love with Blade. You have an incredible knack for thinking up perfect, charming male figures in your stories...it's really not fair, since they almost never exist in the real world. But thanks all the same for creating Blade and Howl (and everyone else); I love being able to feel for your characters on such a personal and affectionate/sisterly/motherly/friend-like level, instead of just watching from a distance, as with so many other fantasy books. Oh, what I'm trying to say is that I love your books and your characters, and the Derkholm crew, and I really hope they come back soon :)

From Emily Regan

• I love your Dalemark Quartet series. I was so suprised when Mitt became King of Dalemark. Maybe you could start another series called "Amil the Great" or something like that...Maewen could visit Cennoreth and contact Mitt by going into the past again. Everyone could be in it. When Hestefan is finding Hobin he/they could meet Gann/Gull(if Gull is still alive). Gull can meet Wend and Cennoreth now that Hern is dead, it won't matter. Also it could be on how Mitt becomes one of the Undying. I think that I am going to read "The Worlds of Crestomanci" next. I'm sure I'll Love all of your books-Emily Regan

From emma

• Dear Diana, I vaguely remember reading a collection of stories which included warlock at the wheel when I was about 7 or so, but were the other stories by other people/not actual real stories that I've remembered? ( I always seem to remember something as the best bit of the book and then discover it's not in there. polly syndrome perhaps) anyway this is what the stories were about - sorry if the descriptions don't make a lot of sense 1) a pet walking stick called carruthers who ate all the easter eggs and grew up into a butterfly type thing 2) fluffy mushrooms growing on the carpet and taking everything over, and a formidable auntie type person visited and sorted it out with something unexpected and sticky (was it cough mixture?) 3) a mum who was obsessed with the knit-your-own-muesli type lifestyle and made sloe jam (maybe the same story as the mushrooms) 4) pigeons that were griffins really and caused people to buy griffin merchandise and write songs about them, and then everyone forgot 5) a grandma who took her grandchildren on a day out and walked surprisingly far and left something like a thermos flask or a hat on the mountain 6)a robot who was left in charge of a house with a little boy and the washing machine and lawnmower ganged up against them. the little boy's mum had some kind of busy job, and burglars or kidnappers or something also invaded the house remember? Did you write the stories I remember? It's good to see publishers having some common sense for once. Improved covers too, they always used to seem they had to inflict generally awful covers on the books to put people off of reading them! Although my copy of f&h had a good one, but it mysteriously disappeared like all the good books I had when I was a kid xx emma xx