What is Tami up to right now?

I’m writing my next “dangerous”
book. What’s it about?
You’ll have to wait and see.

I write every day, which can be a brave thing in and of itself. Some days when I sit down at the computer it feels like all my ideas have dried up and blown away. Other days my fingers can’t type fast enough to get it all down. Showing up to write every day lets me know I’ll be there when the stories are ready to flow.

About me:

When I was a kid, we lived on a farm in Prospect, Kentucky. My sister and I rode horses every single day. We had lots of dogs and cats, and a duck named Sweet Feed.

Everyone in my family was an airplane pilot and soon I learned to fly, too.

Did I always know I wanted to be a writer? No way!

I’d never even met someone who wrote books.

But I LOVED TO READ!

What did I read? Everything from picture books like Go Dog, Go! and Jenny and The Cat Club to grown-up books like The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter. Some of my favorites were Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg and The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

My mom dropped me and my sister off at the library almost every week and I checked out as many books as I could carry. My mom never censored what I read and great librarians pointed out books they knew I’d love. Like Elinor Smith’s parents (see my picture book biography, Soar, Elinor!) my mom knew children have to be allowed to dream and I found lots of dreams in books. Even books that some people might say aren’t “appropriate” for kids. I learned there was a bigger world with all sort of people and lots of choices from reading books.