I love many things! I decorate cakes for fun -- see the marvelous wedding cake I made for my grandson!
http://www.verlakay.com/page9/page22/page22.htmlI love playing computer games (but not the "shoot-em-up" kind - I like adventure, mind teasing games) and my favorite is an online game called Puzzle Pirates. I can be found many nights in my pirate persona of "Ramboetta," sailing on a ship on the high seas. Battles with enemy ships are fought via a Tetris-style game, as are all the other activities done on the ships and in the island shops.
Fishing, cooking, and reading are three more of my favorite activities. I also love scrapbooking, although it's been a long time since I've had access to my huge supply of scrapbook materials. They've been in storage for 6 years! I finally got them out last year, but haven't had time yet to play with them. But I will....
And of course, I love to write! At the moment, I'm in between stories. I'm hard at work on a WWII POW story that is totally non-fiction and completely different from any of my rhyming picture books. It's an amazing story and I hope to have it done and submitted to different markets before the end of this year.
What books do you have out?
"Hornbooks & Inkwells"
"Gold Fever"
"Civil War Drummer Boy"
"Whatever Happened to the Pony Express?"
"Iron Horses"
"Tattered Sails"
"Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails" OP
"Homespun Sarah" OP
"Broken Feather" OP
"Orphan Train" PO
"Rough Tough Charley" OP
All of my books are written in my signature style of rhyme that I call Cryptic Rhyme -- short, terse, cryptic verses -- hence my name for them. OP are books that are currently either Out of Print or that are going out of print. They can be purchased directly from me.