And immediately they became obsessed, and we were writing the books months later." "But in Minecraft you can invite people, so when we learned that, and school immediately got shut down, that was when we finally let them because it was actually where they could still play with their friends and interact. "We've always been very cautious about any online games," Kristin adds. "So we were like, well, if we can play together that's a way to connect." "We started playing at the very beginning of COVID, because one of my best friends had told me a lot about it, and I really wanted to play it," Reagan says. The Billiau's two eldest children, 13-year-old Reagan and now 11-year-old Benny, had always wanted to play Minecraft together, too, so the family teamed up to start exploring the blocky world filled with explosive Creepers, adorable animal companions, and deep, dark, ore-filled mines. "So let's sit down and write a book that you would want to read." "We were like, we're not just going to watch shows all day, let's do something together," Kristin recalls. He'd always enjoyed writing, though, and even self-published a sci-fi trilogy for adults some years before. It was spring 2020, the start of the pandemic, and Rob had just lost his job working in restaurant sales. Benny Billiau is the reason the family's Minecraft tales took off.
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