Poppy

My stories always have different beginnings. POPPY is no exception. I was browsing in a book store among sale books, when I came upon a book that caught my fancy. It was the story of a great horned owl who had been found in a forest when just a fledgling by a naturalist. Presumably the owl had fallen out of his nest. The man raised the owl up, then taught it to be free in the wilderness.

The story so interested me I thought I would like to write a book about an owl. But as so often happens, other characters sprang up and took over. So it was with Poppy. She took over the story--and the book became hers'.