For some time now I've been working on my third rescue book involving a piece or should I say several pieces of gum. Rescue Gummy was to be the title. I had a pretty good idea as to what I wanted Gummy to look like and I had my illustrator work on a sketch for me to look at. She showed me what she had come up with and there was no doubt that she had captured what I had in mind. I ended up going to bed thinking that we were off to a good start and that I'd be ready to publish this 3rd Rescue book in about a month. The story line was simple. But it did involve some screaming, which some of my older grandchildren seemed to enjoy. Notice I said OLDER grandchildren......
Well I woke up at about 4am and found myself thinking about my grandson, who at 3 years old was having a problem with SCARY. Then I thought about my "Gummy" and it dawned on me...almost as the sun was rising that, "I think Gummy might be a bit to scary for some of the little one's I'm writing for." I told myself that if it still bothered me at the end of the week that I'd talk with my illustrator and she what she said. Well come Monday I was still concerned and called her. She thought I had a point and said she'd show it to her 3 and 6 year old grandchildren. Well, the 3 year old thought it was scary and the 6 year old said it was a monster! So we reworked Gummy and rewrote the story. Hopefully we'll be able to put together an interesting story with an interesting character. One with no monsters and no screams.
