Category Archives: Book Characters

Teaching kids & teens to paint whimsical mushroom creatures

When creating my book, Olly & The Spores of Oak Hill, I decided to paint the chapter art using watercolors. Many of these paintings incorporated my fictional mushroom characters (Cremini, Truffle, and Magpie). When the Medina County Library asked me to do a watercolor class for kids and teens, I jumped at the opportunity. TheContinue reading “Teaching kids & teens to paint whimsical mushroom creatures”

Meet Nala, the inspiration for the character ‘Fizzy’ in book one

Nala is my cross-eyed Siamese Tabby, one of my office coworkers, and also the inspiration for the character “Fizzy” in book 1: Olly & The Spores of Oak Hill. From Olly & The Spores, page 183: I woke Sunday morning to the sound of Fizzy running up and down the hall outside my room, slidingContinue reading “Meet Nala, the inspiration for the character ‘Fizzy’ in book one”