"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end.
You live several lives while reading."  William Styron
 
 
 


 



MY OTHER BOOKS

Did Not! Did So!
The Wright Group
Also published in New Zealand by Wendy Pye
ISBN #0-780240685 
The Best Dog in the Whole World
The Wright Group
Also published in New Zealand by Wendy Pye
ISBN #0780240693

THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE BOOKS
When I got married and started to think about having a family, the only thing I knew for sure was that I did not want to raise an only child. As an only child myself, I remembered longing for a sibling to play with. But when my kids were young, it wasn't anything like I had imagined it would be. They fought over everything, just like Nathan and Nora. Although my children never found a dog and tried to keep it from me, it was easy to imagine that it was just the sort of thing they would do.

 




This book isn't totally mine, but I am in it. It is a collection of African American picture books, complete with their original art, in one collection. My book, CAN I PRAY WITH MY EYES OPEN? is included.



OUT OF PRINT BOOKS
It's sad, but yes, books do go out of print.


    

A Pony Named Midnight and The Very Patient Pony are easy readers that take place in a horse camp. The pony Midnight is blind and the character Eric, in The Very Patient Pony, is in a wheelchair. These books were written for the inclusion-based market. I do have some copies still available. Please contact me for details.

Sometimes you can sell a book and it never gets published at all. Now that's a  major bummer, let me tell you. That happened to me with my picture book, When Jasper Closed His Eyes which was supposed to be published by Fairview Press. The illustrations were wonderful and it would have been my first picture book but alas, the publisher closed its doors and while I got to keep the advance, the book was never published.