by Julie Lavender @JLavenderWrites
Arrival Date: October 29, 2024
Weight: 11.5 ounces
Length: 10 inches X 8 inches X .5 inches
Hair color: ginger and gray
Don’t you love how authors call releasing a new manuscript “birthing a book baby”? I think it’s quite a fitting analogy. The scenario became even more personal for me when both of my daughters gifted us with newborn grandbabies right smack dab in the midst of the birth of my book baby, A Gingerbread House.
My daughters had dreamed of becoming moms, probably since my sweet girls pretended to mother their stuffed animals. They made quite convincing pet-mamas.
I, too, had a dream. For more than three decades, I dreamed of publishing a children’s picture book. I tried, but it wasn’t meant to be. God led me down a different path. He blessed me with contracts that included magazine articles, newspaper articles, compilation acceptances, and eventually, books for homeschooling families, parents, and moms.
