In between, I wrote a lot of other books, some of which went on to be published.
The book was published almost exactly a decade later. I wrote my first picture book, One Big Pair of Underwear, when my oldest son (now almost 17!) was a baby.
“MY WRITING GREW STRONGER DURING THOSE TEN YEARS, AND MY KNOWLEDGE OF THE INDUSTRY INCREASED EXPONENTIALLY.” by Laura Gehl So, where does the horn tooting come in? This is one of the last books that I edited, did art direction, designed, and published during my work with Blue Whale Press. Their book WHEN WATER MAKES MUD: A STORY REFUGEE CHILDREN has been rated the #1 new release in Children’s Africa Books on Amazon. You can read more about the “Wisdom” team members and their books here.īefore I move on, I’d like to do a little horn tooting and also offer a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Janie Reinart and Morgan Taylor. You can learn more about why I chose to cover this topic in Publication Doesn’t Happen Overnight Part 1 of 3 here. I asked the team to tell us about their travels down the long and winding road to publication.
This “Wisdom” round’s question isn’t exactly a question.
