What I think is the worst book series ever

There are thousands of books in this world which I think are terrible, but there is one series that combines lack of creativity, unrealisticness, and bad messages into all the books and that book is none other than childrens book series Real Kids Real Places by Carole Marsh. You might be suprised that a childrens book series would be considered the worst in my view, so here are my simple reasons.

The books usually start the same. Two children named Grant and Christina, ages 6 and 8, are allowed by their irresponsable grandmother Mimi, AKA Carole Marsh(apparantly Mimi, Grant and Christina are based off real people and supposedly real events), to wander around heavily populated places by themselves without adult supervision. One thing that bothers me is the fact that Mimi(Carole) is ok with her grandchildren wandering around heavily populated places and never worries about them getting kidnapped, murdered, or god forbid raped. Nope, she would rather do whatever her character does than actually care about the well-being of her grand-children.

After that some crime is commited, rather than the kids telling police about the crime, they go on their own "search" to find the criminals themselves. You might have noticed that I put quotations around the word search, mainly because it isn't really a search. Its more like a game of scavenger hunt, but the baby version of scavenger hunt. Apparantly the criminals give clues to their whereabouts to the children and boy are the clues obvious. In one of the books called "Mystery at Disney World" one of the clues is "Its a world of laughter and a world of peace". Wonder what that must mean? Its a small world of coarse and it only took three seconds to solve. I believe that Carole did not want to have Grant and Christina actually think so she had the criminals give them obvious clues so she wouldn't have to think much while she wrote the books.

Then the kids usually go find the clues which takes them on a tame-goose chase to another part of the country they are in. Usually the clues lead to monuments, museums, or other public places rather than dark alleys, abandoned warehouses, or peoples houses. After that they spend half of the time enjoying themselfs rather than calling the police or at least looking for the next clue. When they finally find the clues, they spend thirty minutes trying to decode the clues that would take a smart person two seconds to solve. The two kids, who are usually occompanied by two other kids, follow the next clue and this continues for another thirty pages.

Sooner of later we get to the climax, which is usually very tame and anticlimatic. The criminals usually give up once they are found and the police usually follow.Though most of the time the criminals aren't arrested in the end. The books always end when Grant and Christina are reunited with Mimi, doing god-knows-what while they were gone, and Mimi usually doesn't care that her grandchildren have been chasing criminals the whole day.


So there you have it, I basicly described the plot-arch of every Real Kids Real Places book. Now there are somethings that aren't related to the plot of the story. For one thing: The books are highly unrealistic. What criminal would give obvious clues to children without intentions of killing the children in the end? More importantly: Why is Carole Marsh promoting the idea of kids running away from their parents in search of criminals? We might never know, but I have my ideas.
I believe that Carole Marsh thought "How about I have the children solve crimes by themselves! That would be original". Man, how many times has that been done? I can already think of four child detectives who solve crimes by themselves: Nancy Drew, Encyclopedia Brown, The Boxcar children, and the Hardy Boys.

The last thing I am going to say is that the books all send bad messages to kids. I think her book unintentionally send a message that it is ok to wander around populated places and you wont get hurt because your kids. It also says that when a criminal sends messages to you in hopes to you finding him(or her), go follow them and get yourself cought by the criminal. The last message is that when a crime is commited and only you know about it, dont tell the police. I do not believe that Carole Marsh did these things on purpose, but I just hope she knows.



My personal belief is that Carole Marsh didn't really attempt to write a good book, and she just wrote it to make money. The only good thing I have to say is that the Real Kid Real places series definitly would make a cute Disney channel show. It is marketable, corny, and you could replace the real people who play Grant and Christina with pretty,older actors. Overall I still stand by my point of the Real Kids Real places series to be the worst book series ever

-AM

ps: I am kinda worried about high school because Im going to be a freshmen(women) next week. AHHHH!

Im starting a new book!

Ive been gone for a long time, but I've finally gotten my love of writing kinda back. My new book is called: The Adventures of a Beauty Queen. Its going to be about a young pageant winner who finds out that many of her competators in the Miss Preteen America contest have been kidnapped, and she and a friend have to find the kidnappers before it is too late. Ok so it may be a common plotline but I hopefully can make the characters original. Though when you think of pageant queen's you think of these common sterotypes:
1. A spoiled rotten, stupid girl who cares only for her looks and nothing about others
2. A emotionally damaged girl who is only doing pageants to please her mother
Now its kinda hard to go beyond those sterotypes, but Im still working on it. I hope to write more, and update my blog more often. Have a great day!
-AM

I might get an agent.......

You probably thought that the title of this post meant I was getting a LITERARY agent, but hate to break it to you but I was talking about an acting agent. My love of writing just seems to dissolved since I stopped writing the Fantasogra book. Now I've started to love acting, and singing. Tonight is the final performance of my MTW camp. I play Shen-Shen from Wicked(Galinda's friend), and Jan from Grease. I can't wait to finally perform! Wish me luck!
-AM

I'm taking a break from Writing and trying something new

I just don't know what is wrong with me but I've been kinda losing my love of writing. Suprisingly I've kinda looking forward to getting a new hobby. Though my new hobby I've been thinking of getting interested in is probably acting and modeling. You see I got a makeover today and I totally feel confident about my looks(which I usually didn't feel so happy about). I don't know whether I will actually get more interested in acting and modeling or if I will go right back to writing. For now I am just taking a break from writing and I don't know if I will ever go back to it for a while.

Have a great summer!

-AM

No Talking Cake remake will be made soon

*sigh* it's true. I thought about the remake all last night and I realized that I just can't remake it in a succesfull way. As you guys probably read in my last post the remake would have been definitly darker then the original. My main reasons why I am not making a remake is simply that I don't feel that I could correctly portay the darkness of the book, and the fact that most of my family adore the original for many reasons.
I feared that if I redid the Talking Cake my family would feel like I totally ruined the child-friendly nature of the book and turned it into a darker book.
I think the phrase to describe turning a cheesy thing into a mature thing is called Batmaning it. You know in the original batman tv series batman was a real cheesy character(weird catchphrases, bright costumes, and cheesy fights). Then Christopher Nolan turned the character into the darker person. It kinda constrasts to turning the Talking Cake from a cheesy book into a more darker book. Now I know that whole batman reference doesn't make sense to you guys at all, but it was the closest thing I got to changing a cheesy thing into a dark thing.

In other news: I feel like I might be losing my love for writing. I'm just never in the mood to write anymore. Well I'm going to pool today and possibly I can get some ideas for new books, or I could even write a play or something.
Have a great summer!

Am I capable of writing the Talking Cake remake?

I've thought about it lately and I fear that because the changes I made to the book will be too mature and dark for me. Here are some hints to what I mean by dark changes:
1. In the new beginning, Carlisa and Will are said to had an affair. In Nohavia it is illegal to date a witch. When Trevor(Will's 12 year old brother at the time) sees the two together Carlisa attempts to get rid of him. Sure it sounds not that dark. Right? Did I mention that Will kinda set Carlisa up to attempting to kill Trevor and eventually killing Will's sister Hannah. Will somehow finds out about Carlisa's plan to kill Trevor but unfortunately sees Carlisa "kill" Trevor. In a panic Will escapes with Carlisa. Hannah finds Trevor, barely alive, and the two escape. After Hannah gets Trevor out of the city, she is killed by Carlisa.
Now Will believes that Trevor is dead and doesn't learn that he is alive till the end of the book. Claire keeps Trevor's survival a secret from Will because Trevor still hasn't forgiven Will for abandoning him.
My only worry about writing it is that this idea is soo mature and dark that I wouldn't be good writing it(description wise). If you guys have any tips on writing this book, please tell me. Have a great summer!
-AM

I'm seriously considering remaking the Talking Cake

This might be suprising to some of you, but I have seriously considered remaking the Talking Cake. I plan to give the Talking Cake a more mature and darker look to it. I've already gotten a couple ideas down and I definitly can tell that it really is darker than the original.
Well I'll keep you all updated on whether or I will ever remake the Talking Cake. Have a great summer!
-AM

The Fantasogra book is officially abandoned

I know this might be a shocker but I just can't continue the Fantasogra book. Everytime I think about it I just feel soo ashamed. The Fantasogra book definitly will not be finished any time soon. I hope you can all understand and agree with my decision. My book was just not described well, too short, and too predictable.
I am still waiting for that book that I can feel proud about even after I finish it. A book where I don't feel ashamed of after I finish it. Have a great summer!
-AM

My dream of publishing at a teen age will be delayed for a LOOOONG time

Yes it is true, I realized that my writing is too amateur to actually be published. I plan to get published when I write a book that has a more mature form of writing and a story that is not laughable(when it is not intended). My writing will probably be good after college or something. My decision to have the Fantasogra book not published was hard. My top three reasons for not publishing the Fantasogra book is:
1. I don't go into deep description of the story. Though when your writing a childrens book you don't have to go into too much description. But you also have to be creative in your describing too.
2. The characters are too common and too sterotypical
3. It is too fast paced and predictable
You might have all noticed that I was pretty enthusiastic about this book but my love for my books usually end after a couple weeks. Have a great summer!
-AM