{"id":144488,"date":"2022-10-13T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/?p=144488"},"modified":"2024-01-19T22:26:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T03:26:48","slug":"kate-dicamillo-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/kate-dicamillo-home\/","title":{"rendered":"At Home With Best-Selling Author Kate DiCamillo"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not everyday that you get to snoop around the space where not one\u2014but several\u2014best-selling books have been written. But thankfully, beloved kid-lit author Kate DiCamillo<\/a> said “yes” to our ask, inviting us into her Minnesota home and the office where she writes every morning\u2014two pages, sometimes three, and onward.<\/p>\n

After her first book, Because of Winn-Dixie<\/em><\/a> (2000), became a smash hit, she’s gone on to write dozens more successful titles (including The Tale of Despereaux<\/em><\/a>, Flora & Ulysses<\/em><\/a>, The Beatryce Prophecy<\/em><\/a>, and the Mercy Watson<\/em><\/a> series) that have captured the hearts of children and adults alike. Still, she stays humble.<\/p>\n

“I remember saying to my best friend early on: ‘This is all so overwhelming, how do I deal with people expecting things of me?’ And she said: ‘It’s not about you, pumpkin.’ I keep those words in mind when I write,” says Kate. “My job is to get out of my own way and tell the story. The rest of it\u2014what happens when the story goes out into the world\u2014I can’t control that.”<\/p>\n

Meet Kate DiCamillo and visit her book-filled office in our slideshow!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not everyday that you get to snoop around the space where not one\u2014but several\u2014best-selling books have been written. But thankfully, beloved kid-lit author Kate DiCamillo said “yes” to our ask, inviting us into her Minnesota home and the office where she writes every morning\u2014two pages, sometimes three, and onward. After her first book, Because…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[165,77,124],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159537,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144488\/revisions\/159537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mothermag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}