A Beacon of Hope...A Brunswick Beacon newspaper in NC 's reporter, Rachel Johnson has shone some light on this new kid on the block.

  "Ring-Ring"---YOUR CALLING really and truly is CALLING.
  Thank you, God.  The preparation meets opportunity theory is at hand.  Publishers weekly's children's bookshelf division claims childrens book sales are rising steadily.

So here is what can happen with a little Ben Franklin Ingenuity and Luck. Click on photo to enlarge.

Hey there! I am not professional, but as C. Hope Clark once posted on her FaceBook page...a little inspirational quote (author of which I cannot recall): “A professional is an amateur who never gives up.” Well, I read that thinking, “How did they know what I was doing?” I used my Microsoft publisher program and formatted my books and saved them into PDF files. Then, I decided to print with the best grade pigment ink as they are children’s picture books.
Print them for your family to start. I am not on Amazon yet, but I am a practicing amateur until I get to be known as a professional! I made a Face Book page for each book title so they each would have a place to live. One is "Tucker the Tricky Green Tractor" and the other, so far is the Knock On Wood Shamrocks story. I often think of Ben Franklin, my “go-getter” hero and say to myself: “Now what would Ben Franklin have done?” It would have been, "Best get on it and get it out there by any means possible! Don’t give up." That’s the answer.
Creative Heartbeats to you all
Lynn
One book about Tucker can be visited at:
https://www.facebook.com/TuckerTheTrickyGreenTractor?ref=ts
The other book about Knock on Wood Shamrocks can be visited at:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Knock-On-Wood-Shamrocks-Story/215752108445264?ref=ts

The Library's guests will await the reading of Tucker, the Tricky Green Tractor this Tuesday, July 24, 2012.   New Printed book with completely laminated book cover for front side and inside of cover.  This tale will features children with no names, but the story reads better when you take on your own special person done by the author/illustrator!  The child or children will see themselves actually right IN the pages.  This is most enamoring and gives a child a great sense of self. 

Please see this quote from one grandma who had the book made up for her grandson:    "My grandson put the magnet right on the refrigerator with the "wusty" side up. He was excited! He loved his silhoutte and told his Dad, "look Dad, that's me!"

And here is page that set the grandson to say, "Look Dad, that's me!"

http://www.authorsden.com/lynndarby1  This tells of my past journey.  Who used to be shy?  You wouldn't think so.  But alas, I was.   If it weren't for a radio interview of Katherine Hepburn, my life would have been different.  She admitted that she, too was shy and afraid to do most things, but here is what she said: "Do them anyway!"  Oh my, how that changed my life.   If  Katherine was afraid and did them anyway, then that meant it was a way for me to get to be brave!  I saved a shopping center in my home town. Got to write for a newspaper and had my own community news column.  That led to me doing creative feature articles. And the rest is History from then on.  Read and find out how the possibilities sprouted into realities.

Hickmans Crossroads Calabash NC Library is gettin on board for my books...YAY

I am making my debut into Hickman's Crossroads Library's pre-K children's reading program on July 24, 2012.  This will be my first of many public readings. I do hope to fill a calendar in the school system of Brunswick County with my eye on Horry County, SC next.  Wish me luck!

Tucker the Tricky Green Tractor will offer fun, hope and love to children.  I hope this becomes a favorite in their collection and that they recall the tale in their adulthood, too!

Here is Tucker's New look!  See the ribbon with tractor charm as book mark or hang over door knob. The 2-sided flip Fridge magnet of Tucker both before and after offers a little additional fun to the story.  Thanks for looking.

Tucker the Tricky Green Tractor is finished.  Will he be available in a smaller book at a local peach farm stand in SC?  Stay tuned as I shrink down the larger book and see how that goes.
I really could be a cute sized little reader for a summer's day.

The larger original book will be available as well.   Launching date is here.