My husband and I were having a bit of a debate... what's more weird : a Bingo book about socks or a book about a robot?
When I started publishing I debated about which name to use - should it be something generic? With me self-publishing, should I make up a "company" to publish under? Many questions!
My grandpa left approximately 500 glass plate negatives. I've been working on scanning them for quite a while. The pictures are mostly landscapes and farm animals/life. My absolute favorite is this one of the sheep:
For a limited time Candy : A Bingo Book is available to read as an Insta Story on my account:
https://www.instagram.com/im_a_librarian/
Please check it out! Let me know what you think in the comments!
Ahoy all ye landlubbers! Celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day September 19th! Don't be a lily-livered bilge rat! Buy these books to bring the love of the sea to your young lads and lassies. Well, at least check them out. Much obliged!
I'm feeling a bit stressed here. How do I write my first post? Many years ago I had a blog called "Read it again, Mom!" which I loved. Mostly I posted children's book reviews and craft ideas. A lot has happened since then. Life has happened. I closed down the blog and moved on.
Now I am at the time in my life where things are relaxing once again. They are NOT yet relaxed! But they are relaxing.
That is a HARD concept. I've been in care-giving mode for the better part of 30 years. How do you switch? Well my switch got flicked on by a scare from my doctor in October 2020. He never has yelled at me. That time he yelled, and I heard. I was facing type 2 diabetes if I didn't make some real changes. As soon as I walked out of that office, I gave up sugar and processed foods.
I have lost over 100 pounds and am in the best physical shape of my life. I still work out every day and feel awesome. (and would LOVE to knock off another 30 pounds if possible! UGH!) You can actually see my progress on my TikTok videos!
With the physical change came a mental one, and I decided to do something fun for myself - become a children's author. I sort of fell into it. I self-published my book about my grandpa using Amazon KDP. In order to get comfortable with the process, I played around creating children's books from songs I have made over the years to use in storytimes. I bought a subscription to Canva and jumped in with both feet. OH MY GOSH! It was so fun and so rewarding to see my ideas in print!
Early Literacy development is a passion and I do whatever I can to help new parents see and learn how easy it can be to help support their children in learning early literacy skills that will help them be successful in school and beyond. I am silly and goofy and create many many songs based on "Bingo". Hey, any 5 letter word can become a Bingo song! Try me!
I started creating my Bingo Books and then spread out to include other things I had created over the years. I did a mass self-publishing of over 30 books in a few months! HA! Ok, too many and not smart... I could have spread them out over time, but I wanted them all out there so that any family finding the books may find a topic they like and want to try (ninja, llama, gnome, shark, socks - yes, SOCKS! etc). I was totally devoted in getting these books out to the public. I truly feel they are fun books that can help parents and kids engage with each other and spend quality time together.
