{"id":80705,"date":"2018-05-21T17:40:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T06:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=80705"},"modified":"2018-05-21T17:40:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T06:40:27","slug":"interview-with-jeff-kinney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2018\/05\/21\/interview-with-jeff-kinney\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Kinney: It’s unbelievable that we’ve hit 200 million books in print."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meet Greg Heffley – the skinny, balding wimpy kid we’ve all come to know and love thanks to bestselling author Jeff Kinney. The idea for Greg came to Jeff\u00a0during his collegiate days back in 1992, when Jeff decided he wanted to make his character different by making him wimpy.<\/p>\n

“There are lots of times in children’s books where the protagonist is heroic, they’re brave, they’re strong,” says Jeff. “I wanted to make a character who was more like me when I was a kid.”<\/p>\n

Thus, the\u00a0Diary of a Wimpy Kid<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>series was born and Greg Heffley’s crazy, wimpy antics turned Jeff’s creation into a bestselling series loved by children and adults across the globe.<\/p>\n

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“It’s unbelievable that we’ve hit 200 million books in print.” – Jeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not so unbelievable once you’ve read the incredible series!\u00a0Diary of a Wimpy Kid<\/em> even hit the big screen in 2010 with a fantastically funny live-action film featuring\u00a0Zachary Gordon as Mr. Greg Heffley himself.<\/p>\n

We were lucky enough to have Jeff pop by Booktopia while he was here in Australia promoting this bestselling series, including book number 13 in the series, The Meltdown<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Instead of interviewing himself ourselves, we decided to let his very own creation, Greg Heffley, ask the questions…<\/p>\n