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We are Dee Klein and Tim Knight, a transcontinental writing team of children’s adventure-mystery books. We are both teachers and writing is our Round Two!
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Dee is up first!
Writing Trails:
Diane Klein here. Actually, I go by many titles- wife, mom, grandma, Dr. Klein, Dr. Dee, DK and Dee. Each of those is a significant part of who I am and why I decided, after I retired from full-time teaching, that I wanted to write some fun books — kids books–that are adventurous, mysterious, and thought provoking.
For close to 50 years (gasp!) I have been a Speech/Language Pathologist and a professor in the field of Deaf Education. I was fortunate to be able to author or co-author three textbooks in my field, but it was time for writing fun stuff.
I will let Tim tell you the story of how we met and decided to write a book in his post, but I will share a bit of my end with you now!
This first book, The Mystery of the Wailing Woods, took over THREE years to write! When the writing team are both working, parents/grandparents, caretakers, and jacks-of-all-trades, and the time difference is 5 hours, collaborative exchange gets challenging and creative.
How did we get started? Hiking trails in the Allegheny National Forest in northern Pennsylvania (that’s me during a hike on Rimrock Trail in the picture-2017)gave me some ideas about a story line. Nothing like fresh air and a stimulating walk to get the juices flowing. The fact that I had this incredible setting for a story right in my own backyard was the kickstart that was needed.
And so it began….and I will tell you more in my next post.
In the meantime, I love spending time with my wonderful family and kitties, and friends here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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