Light-hearted loyal literary friend
Ice cream lover
Zeal to write fiction and nonfiction books

Reader and researcher
Inquisitive about science and people
Children’s writer = my childhood dream realized
Excited to write about & get to know the characters in my stories!

I submitted my first story to a magazine when I was in fourth grade. It was about a bus tire that rolls away before it could be used to replace a flat tire. The tire had adventures while more and more people tried to capture it. My inspiration for the story was The Gingerbread Man tale. The magazine declined to publish my story. That didn’t stop me from continuing to create
more stories. After I retired from teaching elementary and preschool, I studied the craft of writing books for children. I wrote more stories. Some of them have been published in magazines. I continue writing and submitting stories.

This was our yearly Christmas Eve tradition. New red and white pajamas and then listening to my dad read The Night Before Christmas. I was more interested in the book than the camera.

It’s important for a writer to know something about the person they’re writing about, even when they are a fictional character. This is me ‘getting into character‘ by copying the hairstyle of actress Marlo Thomas who played an actress in the television show That Girl.

Liz rode in a biplane a few years ago, for research on a picture book she was writing about Bessie Coleman. She wanted to feel what she probably felt as the plane took off, flew and landed.