I earned a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Georgia, and live in Memphis, TN, the Land of Kings, (Elvis and BB). I have been drawing, writing, sewing and working creatively in the advertising industry for over 20 years.
MY LIFE IN BOOKS:
Amy's Long Night (for obvious reasons)
Harry the Dirty Dog
Anything Richard Scarry
Cranberry Thanksgiving
The Boxcar Children
Miss Piggle Wiggle
Encyclopedia Brown
Anything Roald Dahl
The Westing Game
Approximately 800 Archie Digests
Sweet Valley High (I WAS a teenage girl)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Any Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot
(insert miscellaneous mysteries, biographies, anything by Southern writers)
Flavia de Luce
(the following series I have enjoyed immensely with my children)
Sisters Grimm
Harry Potter
Eragon
and we've come full circle – now it’s back to picture books - the work of:
Oliver Jeffers, ISOL, Zachariah OHora, Andrea Beaty, and David (Mackintosh or Roberts)