Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm with students and staff. We've been talking about your visit and would like to share our thoughts with you. Writing begins with a piece of paper and ideas. Good writers write about things that really happen in their lives. We learned that in order to publish a book you need an author, an editor, an illustrator and an art director.
Titles can come after a story is written or from the story itself.
We learned that you just can't write a story and be done. You should put it away for awhile then take it out and work on it some more. It's good to share your stories with someone else. We can learn things from your books. The pictures and the story matched each other perfectly.