Pepper's Special Secret is one of my favorite stories because it shows a kitten who has challenges and difficulties and overcomesher fear when she learns to trust her owner. All of my books for children have a thread of old fashioned kindness, struggle, or a character trait like trust. We as writers hope to help the reader relate to and learn something about themselves. It warms my heart when a reader gets it. but as a writer I struggle with how to reach those readers at their level and at the level a parent would aprove of.

Most writers often come to a place in their writng and in life, that requires them to make choices. The choices are personal, complicated, public, private, difficult, heartbreaking, exciting, real or make believe. Whether the choices are of a personal nature or involve the road a character insists on taking,  sometimes life's story gets out of control. In real life we cannot always control events that happen such as the 2020 PANDEMIC. As a writer we try hard to control the story but even on the page characters behave badly or the author gets blindsided by the good and bad just around the bend in the road. Sharing nonfiction for young readers offers even more of a challenge for the author when balancing what you want to share and what a parent would accept as appropriate for their child reader.

How do you handle when life and or your story  gets out of control? What guidelines do you use for handling tough topics for your reader?

I cry, I pray, and I write......stay tuned. 

RE/MEMBER: SCHOOL VISITS ARE AVAILABLE...email for details and types of presentations... I can customize a visit to enhance your lesson plans. 

Also, New release you may have missed came out in January: My Wonderful Sister, Her Horrible Problem. Great realistic tale about how drugs and alcohol affect siblings, based on a true story. The book contains a student version, the true parent story, and discussion questions. 

2019 is a New Year, New Goals, New Hopes, New Dreams, and NEW BOOKS coming out this year by Penitpublications.com

Coming soon:

The Loose Tooth Event

Zeus the Moose

NEW RELEASE:

My Wonderful Sister: Her Horrible Problem- A picture book story about addiction and how it effects siblings from a child's point of view.

Here is a list of my books and the newest titles to soon be released:

Children's Picture Books

The ABC's of Cancer According to Lilly Isabella Lane

A Moose is Loose

The Missing Brown Shoe

The Day I Saved Aunt Rose

Pepper's Special Secret

Adult Book

The Cancer Prayer Book

NEW RELEASES:

Zeus the Moose

The Big Tooth Event

My Sister and her Horrible  Problem

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