to send me a message, this is the place to do it. I promise I'll read all your messages, but I'm not able to answer them individually. Sorry. The reason is this. Each year I manage about 2000 hours of writing, which means I can either write two books or reply to 12,000 messages. I've chosen the books. I hope you understand. I'm looking forward to hearing from you, and I'll stick most interesting and funny and passionate messages here in the Visitors Book for everyone to read.

Just use the E-mail link below.

But first, some important points.

• Please don't e-mail me if you're just looking for information for a school assignment. Everything you might need is right here on the site; that's one reason I started it in the first place. Cunningly positioned on its various pages are large amounts of the sort of personal information people ask me for when they're doing author studies. Look in the Scrapbook and on the Bookshelf and at the About Morris pages and in the MAQ and you'll see what I mean. If you really can't find what you're looking for, then by all means e-mail me and I'll do my best to add whatever it is to the site so that you, and everybody, can get top marks for your assignments.



• I won't publish your e-mail address here on the site. (See the Privacy Statement.)



• I'd love to know where you go to school, and the state (and country) where you are. I don't need, or want, your home address or phone number.



• Please keep your messages brief. If you send me the 14 page essay on The Great Wall of China that you're proud you got an A for, I'm sorry to say I simply won't have time to read it, and it will clog up my e-mail server, which means other kids won't be able to get their messages to me.



• Please don't attach anything to your message. Attachments take up too much time and server space. E-mails with attachments will be automatically deleted, so I won't see your message anyway.



• For those of you who may be new to the Internet, some good rules are:



• Never send your full name over the Internet.



• Never send your home address or phone number over the Internet.



• Don't send annoying or abusive messages.



• If you receive an annoying or abusive message, don't answer it — tell a grown-up.

OK. Enough reading. It's time for you to do the writing. Send your message to Morris here! Just click the e-mail link below, and don't forget to check back soon to see if your message made it to the Visitors Book...