Interview with Peter Stampfel, Submissions Editor, DAW Books

An interesting blog.  DAW is a division of Penguin.

Who knew? Days before my 63rd birthday, I would have started my first piece of children’s literature. A little gnome and a big heart asked me to help write the story of Phillip’s Quest. I will forever love Phillip. (Infact, my friend, Kay, decided to make sure I even had a gnome who talked. Obnoxious little devil. Not Phillip at all!) He, although small in stature, is huge in character. A sweet little gnome, he lost his beloved, Ivy but is still struggling forward to Winterfrost castle, to save Twistedoak from the evils of the Red Queen. The brave gnome will have to learn to not only “follow,” but “trust” his heart.

So, here I go, along with my other friends and Boomers at Write by the Rails, an author’s best friend.  There is nothing like being around brilliance and this group certainly qualifies for a super nova! So, today, I was told that I needed, as an author, a platform.  “Alrighty,” I said.  Who knew that blogging was a platform?  I’m an “Old Schooler,” but, I’m learning.  As they say in Twistedoak, “Patience, toadstool, patience.”