When I first began writing I just wanted to finish the book, a final draft, then I wanted to get it published. Then I thought about seeing it a bookstore and in the LIBRARY! Dare I hope to get fan mail? Reviews?
One thing I never even imagined was the gratification that comes with seeing my own grandchildren read my books. Here is two and a half year old Everett “reading” A Beach Tail. I am told he woke of from his nap and quietly picked the book out by himself. He is having a summer beach adventure right in his own bedroom. And I am shamelessly using him to promote this beach read for you this summer.
But if you cannot get to the beach, no worries. Take your children or grandchildren on a journey to the park or back yard. Draw your own lion or other creature in the dirt. Give him a long tail and go on your own adventure around a tree, an ant hill, up the jungle gym, around the pond, up the hill. Come back and tell the tale (or tail) of your own adventure. Make a sand drawing. Look at what the the students at Severn School did when I visited their school and they read A Beach Tail.
Beach or no beach, enjoy the summer with a book!