Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods was written at around the same time as her first picture book, When Charlie McButton Lost Power. There she focused more on her writing than her other pursuits, and published five books in four years, including the rest of The Underland Chronicles. Rowling's Harry Potter series.Īfter the publication of Gregor the Overlander in 2003, Collins moved with her family to rural Connecticut. Stimola represented Collins throughout the publication of each book in the series, including Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, and helped to bolster Collins's confidence during the "Harry wave" - her name for the "skewed publisher expectations about what constitutes a success" that resulted from the publication of J. Upon seeing a sample of that first book, Stimola immediately agreed to represent Collins and sent the book's manuscript to Scholastic.
Proimos also recommended her to his literary agent, Rosemary Stimola. She was encouraged by colleague James Proimos to begin writing children's books, and started the manuscript of Gregor the Overlander shortly thereafter. The Underland Chronicles was first conceived by author Suzanne Collins while working as a television screenwriter for Generation O!.
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