In 2020 I completed my manuscript titled, Nature’s Rhyming Riddles. It consisted of rhymes introducing hints about five mystery animals. The idea is to read the rhymes and see if the listening children can identify what animal each set of rhymes are referring to. When a listener thinks they know the mystery animal raise his or her hand to signal they have a guess as to what the mystery animal is. What fun it is to solve the rhyming riddles……
Being an author is becoming a pressure filled job. When I first started writing in the early 1980’s things were much simpler. I would write something that I thought was the most awesome thing that anyone had ever composed and I would excitedly prepare to send it off to a publisher. The internet had not yet been invented so communication with publishers was either by ‘snail mail’ or the telephone. So becoming published was a very personal, private experience between…..
