ReviMo Rev it up! Tara Lazar - Why I Love Being A Picture Book Author

by Tara Lazar

I love being able to work in my pajamas all day. I even take my girls to school and pick them up wearing my jammies. I don't care about the stares. I know the other parents think I don't have a job anyway.

I love being able to work in bed all day. I have a breakfast tray/desk and two husbands that make it possible. (Wait...TWO HUSBANDS? Yes. First is Mr. Lazar, Alan, who works in our home office so I have to grab whatever space I can. The second is my stuffed husband that supports my back.) Jammies + bed = comfort = excellent writing vibes.

Finally, what I love most about being a picture book author is THE READERS--the kids. I love creating new places for them to visit, new characters to love, and new stories to expand and inspire their imagination. My goal has always been to write some child's most favoritest book. Bringing joy to a child's life is the biggest and best reason to love being a picture book author.

Those are EXCELLENT reasons, particularly the jammies writing a picture book a child will love! :D Thank you Tara!

Tara Lazar is a children’s book author, mother, foodie and boogeyman assassin (currently booked at 3am nightly). Her debut picture book, THE MONSTORE, is available now from Aladdin/Simon & Schuster. I THOUGHT THIS WAS A BEAR BOOK follows from Aladdin in September 2014, with LITTLE RED GLIDING HOOD skating your way via Random House Children’s in October 2015.

Tara created PiBoIdMo (Picture Book Idea Month) as the picture book writer’s answer to NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). PiBoIdMo is held on this blog every November. In 2013, PiBoIdMo featured 1,150 participants and over 100,000 web hits.