Article: Powerful Partners in a Teen's Dream -- Parents and best-selling fantasy writer, Terry Brooks, root for Yakima aspiring author -- Scott Klepach

Ruth Klepach knew it was a long shot. That her efforts were likely to earn a terse thanks-but-sorry form letter, a letter that would close with the faint, rubber-stamp signature of best-selling fantasy author Terry Brooks.

Still, it was a disappointment she was willing to risk in the hope she could convince the Seattle-based writer, then finishing up his novelization of "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace," to chat - if only for a few moments - with her teen-age son, Scott, an aspiring fantasy writer and avid Brooks fan.

The Yakima woman told Brooks about her boy's poetry and unfinished fantasy novel, which she and her husband, Scott Sr., were reading as fast as their reluctant son ...

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