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I still get fan mail for Columbo.

I really like to communicate to my fans. I have a fan club president who I've had for over 15 years.

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

One fan wrote asking for a very specific autographed photo. He wanted me to pose in tight jeans and boots and even enclosed a sketch of how I should dress! A lot of them just say they wish they had a girlfriend like me. They're very endearing letters.

My mother answers all my fan mail.

If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you and say, 'Dear Mr. Scieszka, we were supposed to write to our favorite author, but Roald Dahl is dead. So I'm writing to you.'

I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.

Yes, I receive fan mail. One of my favorite things to do is sit down and read the letters people write. It's really amazing the time people take to write these letters, tell their stories, draw pictures, etc.