I’ve been so bad about keeping up with my blogging, but for good reason. We have been very busy with several new projects so I have many exciting things to tell everyone about.
The first big news is that in just two days, July 4th, not only are we celebrating the United States’ birthday but this is also the launching date for our new book Diabetes and Healthy Eating co/authored with Celebrity Chef Charles Mattocks.
We are working so hard to spread the word so that we can reach as many children as possible with this incredibly important lesson about diabetes. This book not only helps children with diabetes to understand their condition and how eating healthy benefits them, but it also helps children all over the world understand how important eating healthy is for the prevention of diabetes as well. Be sure to check out the book’s new website @ http://diabetesandhealthyeating.com to learn more details!
Dave has also started again on our next Mommy, Tell Me a Story book. In order to get the book on diabetes done on time we had to delay getting Mommy, Tell Me a Story about a Fish completed. We are still very excited about getting this done. Dave’s art work is looking wonderful as usual. I should have some fun drawings to share very soon! Details about this book are in previous blog posts.
I also have even more news to share. I have started another book series! After starting the Mommy, Tell Me a Story series just over a year ago I have had many people ask me if any of my stories would deal with my own disability or related disabilities with children in wheelchairs. Well to be honest, I really hadn’t thought about it until it was brought to my attention and this got my imagination rolling.
This is how Prinna Marie Goes Dancing came about. Prinna is just like many little girls. She likes to play dress-up, play with her dolls, have tea parties and, yes, go dancing at far-away balls, in far-away lands where fairies dance in magic castles. I want children to see that just because Prinna is in a wheelchair doesn’t really make her any different than what any other little girl may be like. She will do things differently, but that doesn’t stop her imagination or her dreams.
I have also been given the privilege of taking on a new illustrator for this project. To be honest, I love my husband’s work as an illustrator, but this book needed a woman’s touch. Explaining to Dave what a proper “Fairy Ball” should look like would be fair to difficult. Bless his heart, he would have tried, but the art work in Mommy, Tell Me a Story about a Fish is already pushing the limits of his feminine side. Trust me when I say that he is relieved to not have to take on this task.
My dear friend Theresa Higby is a lovely artist and I am so excited to show the world her amazing talent. It really is rather funny watching us talk over the sketches that she has done. The two of us start acting like we are five again. With all the… “Oh, yes, that dress is perfect”…or “That is so cute”…and “I love the bunnies!”
All my other books have shown the side of me that grew up with a brother, played sports and now have four boys. This book gives you a peek into the other side that loves lace, pink, cute animals and dressing-up on occasion.
Theresa and I should be ready to publish Prinna Marie Goes Dancing by the first of the year 2014. We just can’t wait to share all these incredible projects with your precious little ones!
Mommy, Tell Me a Story book series…imagination inspired through color and rhyme
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