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Fan Letter for "Tennessee Touch"

1/7/2015

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Just in time for the football playoffs, here's a fan letter about TT and part of my answer.

Ms.Radke,
I just finished reading Tennessee Touch. I was thrilled to find out Alison was a sign language interpreter. I am a ASL interpreter as well as a CODA. Yours is the first mainstream book I have read with an interpreter as a main character.
My question to you is, where did you get the knowledge to present interpreting/Deaf culture so accurately? You were spot on about interpreters. 
Thank you for being such a fantastic writer. I am reading my way through all of your books, and I will say I have yet to find one that did not enthrall me and draw me in. You have done an excellent job.


Dear D...,
I'm so glad you are enjoying my books. I love both football and baseball, so I expect one day to write a baseball story, but no plot or character has come to me yet. 

My daughter is an interpreter, so she read the manuscript and made sure I was accurate. Also, she met a fellow on the freeway this way, although he was really deaf. She told me that sometimes a group will meet and sign to each other, some will leave and others will keep signing, only to find out that they can all hear. I just had to put that into a story. Now my granddaughter is learning to sign, and they sign to each other across the room.

I just finished the first of the Brothers of Spirit story, Heights of Danger, using some of the characters from Songs for Perri. You may want to check it out later. 
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10/29/2024 04:24:40 pm

Grateful for shaaring this

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