The most significant impacts on the person I am now – on my views, my dreams, my value system, the spiritual and physical me – were created by my grandmother, Frances Ella Pittstick Mendenhall and the most incredible canine companion imaginable, Babe the Wonder Dog.
This novel gives me a chance to share the two great treasures of my life with others. And it keeps their memories warm and glowing in the forefront of my mind’s eye.
Here’s the Trade Last: I got to recreate my father into a character any little girl would adore. That has proved to be more important now than when I began this literary journey 15 years ago.