Carrie Turley from Lawley publishing texted me recently and said they were featuring The Lost Island at a literary night at a junior high school (pretty cool, right?). She wanted me to send a bullet point list of the inspiration for my book. So, here it is:
- Thomas and I love reading books together, and we ran out of good dinosaur books we liked. We decided to write our own.
- The book is about a father and a son going on an adventure to a strange island. It was inspired by adventures with my family (especially camping).
- Families don’t always see eye to eye. Sometimes what I want to do isn’t what you want to do. This story is inspired by all the times we had to come together to achieve a goal and how we realized what we wanted wasn’t so different in the end.
- The book includes dinosaurs, pirates, witches, treasures, Vikings, and video games. It was inspired by the things in the world that Thomas and I love!