What made you want to publish a children's book?

I have always loved reading children's books. I prefer picture books, young adult fiction and children's fiction over more mature fiction, which is why I enjoy writing in this genre.

I love it that you have two children who are avid readers. Did they play any parts in turning The Whispering Witch and Nobody Important into books?

Yes, my children are always indirectly influencing my work.

What was the hardest thing about getting your books published?

The hardest part is getting read by children as their parents are making most of the selections.

What is something you'd like people to take away from your books?

That poetry can save the world and we can change the world positively as much as we have damaged it.

What do you believe is the latest trend in children's fiction?

Comedy is in full swing. I think radical, crazy fiction is on the rise.

Any tips for future children's book authors?

Keep writing and don't give up. I love reading books by new authors and support indie writers.

About The Whispering Witch:

The Whispering Witch starts with a fading world. The trees are turning grey and the islands are sinking beneath the rising seas. Men of earth continued with their bickering and wars and all hope withered. A young girl came from the soil with one purpose, to heal the sick world. She regrew the glaciers and sprinkled down seeds into the rainforests and even brought the dinosaurs back, hatching from new eggs. The infant reptiles stretch out and play in the modern new world and the children adore them. However, the men cry out in object and gather their swords to bring her down. The leaders of earth witnessed these changes and only wanted to maintain order and control. But the leaders of mankind feared her touch. Distrustful of the power they could not control, they cast her away, determined to maintain their rule. Yet the witch did not come for them. Her message was for their children—the next generation, still untouched by the greed and ruin that plagued the old.

So, the powerful leaders of earth hunted her down and cursed her name. She did not fight them and returned back below, beneath the soil. However, she whispered to all the children of the world and asked them all to put away their father’s swords and look to the gardens, watering the world with hope.

The Whispering Witch is available at Amazon

About Nobody Important

Nobody could have known that the Evil Ones would attack so suddenly from the North. They came with fire and folly, mounted on wild beasts, and the poor Underlings, who were very much undersized and unprepared, cried out for help across the Western Lands. They tried to broadcast the terror to the world and the Higher Elders and Wise Chieftains devised plans to strike back. As the war grew and grew the innocent Underlings watched in horror, hoping for someone to save them. One of those Underlings was Nobody Important (yes that was his actual name), and he came up with an unrealistic plan to stop the Evil Ones.

What was this unrealistic plan and how could somebody named Nobody Important bring an end to the war?

Nobody Important is available on Amazon Kindle | Hardcover | Paperback