Last September I decided to write a children’s book. It was something I’ve researched in the past, so it didn’t come out of the blue, but the drive I had to work on it did seem like manic energy. I wrote a cute little story based on my dog Dez. While standing under a tree he gets hit in the head by a ball. It turns our that Shakey the Squirrel is cleaning his house in the tree, and the ball rolled out and bounced on Dez’s head. It inspires him to clean his own room. This begins the journey, and it ends with a rollicking celebration of Dez’s clean room. Along the way, it teaches children a “fun” way to clean their room. The first time I wrote the book it didn’t rhyme, and it was dull, so my manic mind played with words to make it rhyme and it was so much more fun to read!

I took to Fiverr to find an illustrator and took bids from four different artists and chose my favorite, with username nitadraw. I loved her illustrations, and have included one here. All of this is costing me money of course, and I tell myself that I will be using Amazon’s kindle kids book app to sell lots of copies of the book so it’s ok to spend the money now, it will all pay off! Well, long story short, I was super ambitious when it came to the writing and fiverr conversations about illustrations, but once it came to the technology of the Kindle Children’s Book illustrations, I ran out of steam. The mania was wearing off and I was at the end of my adventure. I do have all of the illustrations and text saved, so perhaps this summer when I have vacation time I will actually publish it. My manic mind thought it was a pretty cute book, but regular ole me is plagued with doubt.