Kids and Rainbows.

Am I a poet or not?

Picking up where we left off with my little tale …

I don’t remember what led me to write picture books - that should say publish. I didn’t set out to write kids books at all. It kind of just happened.

Santa’s Early Christmas was a poem I wrote for my dad’s Christmas card which I made kid friendly.

https://mybook.to/SantasEarlyChristmas

The Palm Tree Swingers Island Band and If I Were Invisible … were written in response to prompts.

https://mybook.to/PalmTreeSwingers

https://mybook.to/IfIwereInvisible

I never intended any of them to be a book.

After months of playing with kids books - fun as that was - and frustrating especially Santa (I nearly gave up before I hit publish with that one). I have learned that knowing what size book you want is very helpful before you talk to the illustrator. Also either get your words right or at least have them seperate from the images.

After that rollercoaster I wanted to get back to poetry and I had a rainbow that needed more colour.

Rainbow’s Orange Book of Poetry is a different book to its predecessor. I didn’t know what feel I wanted but, as is the case with my books, it just kind of came together. There were some changes before and after betas. It is more a writers poetry book as it is my poetic thoughts about writing.

https://mybook.to/rainbowsorangebook

next week - another direction and what next