Posted by in africa, Children's Book, Travel, writing I have just signed a contract to publish my first illustrated children’s book, with the release scheduled for later this year. My illustrator, Chelsa, and I are so excited. During my travels around the world, I witnessed both the beauty of wildlife and the urgent need to protect it. But when I visited the Okavango…Read more »
Several weeks ago, I developed community-acquired pneumonia, AKA walking pneumonia. I lay weeks on the couch, listless, weak, with no appetite. My family doctor tried diligently to avert it. When it developed into a bacterium, the antibiotics finally worked. But until I fully recovered, I couldn’t shut my mind off. Over the days and weeks,…Read more »
Some parts of my memoir, Pink Flamingos, were painful to write when it came to telling the whole story, the whole sensitive truth. I was concerned who would read it and what they would think; my family, my classmates, my work colleagues. All my coaches encouraged me to write what happened, not focus on the…Read more »
Posted by in writing So what is so challenging about writing a children’s picture story book? I could write under 600 words in about 30 minutes and get it done. Not the illustrations, of course; I found a wonderful illustrator to do that. Hey, I am already a published author of adult nonfiction stories and poems. “Piece of cake,”…Read more »
Susan E. Greisen 