My favorite author as a kid was Carolyn Keene of the Nancy
Drew Mysteries. Sure, I read and enjoyed other authors, but no one did for me
what Ms. Keene did: she made me obsessed with books—and bookshelves, and
libraries, and the smell of books, and illustrations…
I devoured the series and would stand in awe in front of the
library shelf where all her books sat. She gave me an escape from the real
world, and to this day when I see a series of any type of book lined up on a
bookstore or library shelf, I get that giddy little feeling inside that
whispers, "Ohhh, the possibilities!"
I may not be writing a children's series that would fill a
shelf with all the same color binding, but I do hope that one day I have enough
books written that it could fill a shelf somewhere!
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