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A Few Words from the Author...
Sheelagh
Mawe
Dandelion
didn’t come easily into this world! There were times when I was
writing her story that the paper stayed blank all day. Other times I’d
have three legal pads going at once, none of them making much sense.
And
I’d quit my real-world job to do this!
And
then, when her story was written, nobody wanted to publish her.
I mean, nobody.
"What is it?" they wanted to know, "Adult or children? Fact
or fiction?
What, what, what?"
Thinking, Well, if I’m going to have to "draw pictures" for them to
understand her, just never mind! And I decided to publish her myself. Only thing
was, I didn’t have any money…
Time passed. A lot of time. |
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Nine years, in fact. But it wasn’t wasted time. For in those years my son the
CPA, and my son the ARTIST, and I, the unknown AUTHOR, put our heads together
and started our own company, TUT, which later came to represent Totally Unique
Thoughts. And gradually, as we grew from selling our T-shirts in the heat and
the cold out of a pushcart on a sidewalk, to real stores with a real
warehouse and computers and all that "stuff", Dandelion came back to
haunt me and I thought, Why not? Let’s get her out of that cardboard box on
that dusty shelf and give her her head, and see what happens…
Today, three years later, Dandelion
is a very happy, well-traveled horse. She gets shipped to places I’ve never
heard of, receives her own mail, is in her second printing, and
from what people write me, is actually making a difference. Good thing I
quit that job, huh…?
SM Mawe, September 1997
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