katie the catsitter 3 secrets and sidekicks af venable colleen

I wanted it to be the one-upping of getting into this world of side-kickery.ĪVERY: Can you tell us more about designing the Cheesy Justice costume?

The parent doesn’t know she’s doing this, and suddenly, her parent is around more. The fact that she saves the city… I don’t know how many times in the book, and they react by saying, “Oh my gosh, did you see, the Moustress destroyed the city again!”Īlso, secret identities being found out, I think is a really interesting idea. I started with that, and I also wanted the idea of other heroes and villains in the city, and really starting to gray that line with the Moustress. But, what if Katie struggles with these things? What if it’s not completely natural for her to do a push-up, like most people out there? Which, I also hate montages where anyone loses weight, for the record. In a lot of these things, the montage happens in five minutes and they’ve lost fifty pounds and they’re suddenly great at everything. Learning where the training happens – I love the montage of the training area.īut, what happens if you’re not good at it? That’s a lot of it too. Now it’s learning the physical things, learning all the cool things, learning where all the gadgets come from, learning all this stuff. So in Secrets and Sidekicks, now it’s the fun parts. AVERY KAPLAN: How did you approach the third volume in the Katie the Catsitter series, both as a sequel and an ongoing continuation?ĬOLLEEN AF VENABLE: We set it up in Katie the Catsitter: Best Friends for Never that Katie was trained to be a sidekick, but it was none of the fun parts of being a sidekick.

Katie the catsitter 3 secrets and sidekicks af venable colleen