Writing Gives Me The Opportunity To Explore

My Reading Is Extremely Eclectic. Lately I've Been Teaching Myself Computer Graphics, So I'm Reading A Lot About That. I Read Books Of Trivia, Of Facts.

I'm Mostly Influenced By Life, What's Around Me, And My Own Childhood.

Children Seem Naturally Drawn To Poetry - It's Some Combination Of The Rhyme, Rhythm, And The Words Themselves.

I Write The Poems First, With Only A Few Exceptions For Odd Reasons, Where I'm Given The Illustration First.

There's Not Too Much Difference Between Writing A Picture Book And Writing A Collection Of A Hundred Poems Or So, Except That The Bigger Books Take A Lot Longer To Do.