![]() Having your partner as your editor sometimes means that no punches get pulled when it comes to feedback. ![]() Then, finally I said, ‘OK.’” (Jane and Waricha founded Parachute Publishing, which also published the Goosebumps and Fear Street series for a time.) We have to try it.’ And I didn’t want to do it,” he told TODAY. “My editors, my wife and her partner, said, ‘No one’s ever done a series for 7- to 11-year-old, scary books. Stine’s wife, Jane, is the editor of the Goosebumps series-and she and her business partner, Joan Waricha, were the ones who convinced him to do it in the first place. ![]() ![]() Stine didn’t want to do Goosebumps-but his editors convinced him. “I was always afraid of a lot of things, which later came in handy, of course, because I could remember that feeling of panic, that feeling of what it feels like to be a frightened kid,” the author told TODAY. ![]() Stine found inspiration for his scary stories in his own childhood. Stine wasn’t always scary: Before hitting it big with horror, he dabbled in comedy, writing for a humor magazine at Ohio State University and published more than 100 joke books under the pen name “Jovial Bob.” But the first horror book he wrote, Blind Date, was a bestseller, which caused him to switch genres. Get Goosebumps! Scholastic 20th Anniversary Celebration / Slaven Vlasic/GettyImages ![]()
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