Category: Welcome to Our World

One year ago today, I was super excited to see the publication of my first book!! With so much that has happened since then, the best seller list out of the gate, over 250 copies sold to date, a few meet the author and signing promos and so many amazing supporters, I am truly lucky to have accomplished this dream in the past year!

Since we have hit a snag in our World today with the COVID virus, things slowed down to almost a halt like so many others have experienced! It has been a challenge but I am very hopeful in the future that I can continue to move forward with more greets and signings as well as more young readers discovering our beautiful message!

Be kind to one another, love others for who they are and make a new friend today!!!

Happy reading and happy anniversary! 🥂🍾🎉🐾💖 📖

A year ago I received the first proof print copy of my book, The World of Bugsy & Taz two days before it was released!!! What an exciting time it was and how thrilled I was to have made that dream and journey come true!! Thanks to FriesenPress for helping me with that!! I am still hoping down the road for some meet the author and book signing events when the world is as close to normal as it can be! Until then, we hope everyone is still staying safe & healthy! 🐾💖.

In these times of the new normal, where we try to stay safe and life has changed in so many ways, we are hoping to go out into the new normal and do some book signings and author meet & greets…safely!

As we wait patiently to do so, we hope we receive new young readers who haven’t yet seen our book to purchase it online at either, friesenpress.com, Amazon, Chapters/Indigo, Barnes & Noble and other ebook sites!

I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy and let’s hope that we can continue to get to a place where we can get together safely soon!!

With so much going on with Black Lives Matter and protests, I am reminded again of why I wrote this children’s book in the first place!

With the help of Bugsy & Taz we show children that if a dog and cat can get along and be the best of friends, even though they are so very different, than so can we! Through patience and understanding these two beautiful furry souls have an amazing bond that can teach children to do the very same thing!

If you haven’t got a copy for your young reader please click on one of the links at the top of the website to where to you can purchase the book!

I am very happy to say that my site is back up and running after suffering its own little “viral” glitch! In the world of uncertainty at this moment, with CoVid-19, we are all experiencing the interruption of normality and I am hoping everyone is remaining safe and healthy through it!

I can now continue to keep up my site, after my brilliant husband, who is a whiz on coding and that he does this for a living, I am grateful for his help in this matter! He is my vaccine to my site problem! 😝

On March 15th, 2018, I received a call from my editor at FriesenPress to discuss the beginning of my dream come true! I wanted to write a children’s book about loving someone even if they were different! I also had a dream of where I wanted to take this after the book was released, which was July 25th, 2019!

I envisioned having the little extras, that children could have along with the book! Stickers, colouring pages, fridge magnets, pens, notebooks, shirts, etc! A little franchise, a small empire to be exact!

With the help of a video that was included in my package, the author of “The Wealthy Barber”, the Chilton method expressed on that very video to see your book as a small business! Marketing was key and strategy was important! Having worked retail most of my life, as a manager I had to ensure sales were good and how to market the product!

This helped me in so many ways with the journey of getting my book out there! What would make me different, stand out and catch both adult’s and children’s attention!

I am proud today of how far I have come, how much hard work I have put into this and how much pounding the pavement as well as social media presence is necessary to succeed in this book adventure!

If you are willing to work hard for what you want, you can achieve it!

March break will be here soon enough, and if you are looking for something to do with the kids, Indigospirit books is hosting a meet the Author book signing event!

There will be activities as well for the kids with Indigo books, making a day of lots to do!

The World of Bugsy & Taz will be there from 12-4, Wednesday March 18th! Hope to see you there!

The second part of my St. Luke’s School visit was a huge success! With the junior grades we discussed more on the publishing and marketing aspect of a book and what an author has to go through to get their book out into the world!

I had some amazing questions asked by some very interested students, making the day inspirational for me! Hearing what they thought of the story and pictures was so satisfying as they all assured me that the story was really really good! In fact, I even had some very keen students offering amazing ideas for my next book for Bugsy and Taz!

This is the feedback that I need to ensure that I hit the nail on the head with my entire thought process from start to finish, with successful results in the end!

All the students and teachers were so welcoming and so complimentary that I left the school with a huge heart filled with joy! What more could an author want but to see first hand how all their hard work has paid off and then some!

As I left the school for the day I was greeted with hugs and smiles from the primary children who remembered me being there for them the week before and as I walked to my car I felt such an immense sense of accomplishment and pride! My school had welcomed me home with open arms, open hearts and open minds!! Thank you so very much again St. Luke’s, I am truly proud of being a part of your history!

Today was a very emotional and surreal day for me! I got to do the first of two reading days for the children at St. Luke’s Catholic School, a school I attended 50 years ago in kindergarten through to grade 5!

The primary grades were so much fun to read to as always, with their extreme enthusiasm and allllll their amazing questions and tales! It truly is the best experience seeing my book in a child’s hand and hearing them read it along with me! Having them tell me they love the book, or, they want to be a writer or see their eyes light up at the pictures just warms my heart!

Thank you again St. Luke’s for making my day so special and I look forward to next week!

Up early before the sun ☀️ ! Got my lunch packed, ✔️ my apple for the teacher 🍎✔️, a few great books ✔️📚, some colouring pages ✔️, stickers ✔️ and I am ready to read and ready for all the questions ✔️✔️✔️!!! Off soon to St. Luke’s for a wonderful day to spend with new young readers and to introduce them to The World of Bugsy & Taz!!! 🐾🐾❤️👏🏼 🐕 🐈 🌎. This is the part I love the most, on hand reaction! 🥰