Bio-to-Go

I always wanted to be a writer and I always wrote but I started out writing a lot of magazine articles, computer books, and other stuff like that for adults to help keep our family in toilet paper and chocolate chip cookies.

Then, in about 1998, things began looking up and I was able to devote my free time to writing what I really wanted to write--underwear labels. Just kidding. I really wanted to write books for kids. So I started. But right about then, we had our third kid--Rayanne. So I often had to stop in mid-sentence to change a diaper or make sure someone wasn't creating their latest work of art on the wall--out of oatmeal.

baby-crop_t Where It All Began

Well, let's see, it started when I was a baby. I wrote about burps and poop and getting my first tooth.

Okay. Maybe I didn't really write anything when I was a baby. But I would have if I could have.

When I was in kindergarten, my parents sent me to a special art class where I made a clay turtle and other things (that's me in the class, painting). I liked art but found out I liked writing better. I wrote and illustrat paint-6ys_t ed my first book when I was around 12 years old, The Laziness of Peter Rabbit

Anytime we did a special project at school, I chose to write, including a newspaper that discussed Huckleberry Finn and a play about the Pullman railway car. When we were learning about Vienna, Austria in grade school, I wrote the words to a song for part of a report (but my partner sang it because I can't carry a tune worth pinto beans).I also wrote a really bad novel when I was 15. It was exciting to type 144 pages, especially the last page where I wrote THE END.

If you want to find out what I'm up to now, check out the Blab-o-Denise—my online journal.


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IIf you have questions about a particular book (how long it took me to write it, etc), check out the FAQ for that book. Just go to the BOOKS FOR TWEENS page, BOOKS FOR TEENS page or BOOKS FOR KIDS page and click on the book you’re writing about.

2007 photo - this was the first time I had my hair straightened - my sisters insisted. I liked it so much, I made my sister, Cheryl, take a picture and I used it for some publicity stuff.

Normally my hair is wavy-curly and kind of frizzy like the photo below.

2006 photo - my regular, didn’t-do-anyting-to-it “wild Mexican hair” as I like to call it.

I know what you’re thinking - she’s obsessed with her hair. I’m really not. But I do like to try different things with my hair (except cut it short). Maybe I’ll post some crazy hair pictures.

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