A Brief Introduction:
They named me Linda so that everyone would know that I was born in the 1950's. I am a native Floridian. At five I watched open-mouthed from the front yard of my row house on Rose Marie Drive in Titusville as the first American astronauts raced the Russians into space. From these early memories I believe I became moonstruck.
When I was nine I moved with my family to a miniscule rural town in Seminole county, Geneva, Florida. There under the live oaks and Spanish moss I discovered the thrill of fantasy.
Later, as a wife and mother of four, I became acquainted with absurdity, tomfoolery, exhaustion, and multi-tasking. I also became re-aquainted with wonder.
At the age of forty-two I took a healthy slice of fantasy, added tomfoolery to it, divided it with wonder and created my first children's book, The Pocket Fairies of Middleburg. The reviewer from Writer's Digest called "the perspective of these tiny beings [the pocket fairies] is refreshing, enchanting, and intriguing."
The folks at the Florida Publisher's Association were kind enough to award my little book the President's Book Award for the best children's book of 2005.
I am currently working on a sequel to Pocket Fairies, my first picture book called The Long Promised Song, and a collection of humorous essays entitled Zippity Zern's Soapbox and Email Emporium. In addition, I like to think that I'm getting better at this book making business.
The mystical state of Florida remains enchanting and delightful to myself and my husband of twenty-eight years, and so we continue to make our home here (along with our horses, Sonny and Selena) among the palmettos and armidillos in the historic town of Saint Cloud.
Please note: I continue to be moonstruck.
To Contact the author (me) please email (me) at zippityzern@comcast.net
