I wrote a few books

I guess I am a writer now.  Not necessarily a great writer, or even good, but I did something I never thought I would do, and not once but almost 5 times.  Why?  Summer started reading chapter books.  I was reading them with her.  I didn't like the books she was reading, one was horrible (Junie B. books constantly use wrong words on purpose like ranned instead of run) and the other book we read had second graders sneaking outside at night and breaking into people's houses.  Hmmm.  I thought to myself that I should write Summer a book she would enjoy.  I didn't really expect to do it, I have tried to write books before and that is when I realized that reading and writing books were not the same.  I did great in my english classes in school but apparently we never focused on writing!

4 1/2 books later (three of which are available on Amazon thanks to self publishing) and still going strong.  I am thinking at least 6 books in this series, maybe more, and then off to try something else.

The books all have Summer as the main character.  She gets a magical bookmark from her grandpa who is off on his own adventure.  She uses the bookmark to have adventures inside books.  The first book has all the background information, the second book takes her and a friend inside a few jungles and the third book finds her visiting fairy tales and halloween.  The 4th book is about nursery rhymes and a puppy and the 5th book will focus on turkeys and November.  The 6th book?  I am guessing December, Christmas, something around that idea, we will see.

Summer took her first book to school and everyone thinks she is famous, at least that is what she told me.  She is pretty thrilled to have a book about herself and enjoys reading them.  She read the second book and asked Kris if he knew the first astronauts to land on the moon were named Buzz and Neil and Kris and I were both impressed that she actually cared about knowing that.  I try to put a lot of little facts in the book, what better way to learn right?

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I do make some money off the books, but I don't know how.  I made the books as cheap as I could to printing and Amazon even lowered that price.  Most of the books are just over $2.00.  I can't even get them any cheaper.  I have sold about 10 books and made about $8.  I have spent around $30 buying them - I had to pay shipping!  Of course I don't need 2-3 copies of each book either!  I thought about submitting them to an actual publisher but for now I am just writing them for fun and as long as Summer enjoys reading them then I am happy!