A is for Author

This post begins a new series here on Book View Cafe: The Author’s Alphabet. Each week, I’ll be posting another letter of the alphabet, selecting a word that starts with that letter, and sharing my view of what that word means to me, as an author. Then, the fun begins — you get to comment, question, poke, prod, and otherwise get involved with the discussion.

So. A is for Author.

I’ve been an author nearly all my life, beginning with the stories I told to my stuffed animals, when I was supposed...