(from Pauline, age 12)
Marjorie answers:
Dear Pauline,
I decided I would put together a book for my first grandchild’s 4th birthday. I wrote a poem for him and illustrated it with wonderful owls created by a famous Eskimo artist and it became ”Adam’s Owl Book.” I worked on this project for about thirty hours in a kind of trance-like, totally focused state, then took the pages to Kinko’s who turned it into book. The entire experience fascinated me to the point that I took some classes at UCLA in writing for children and began working on “Dar and the Spear-Thrower” in my first class. I had a lot to learn, and five years later it was published. From that time on I have never stopped writing. So this is my answer to your good question and my thanks for submitting it.
Marjorie Cowley
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