So hello, my name is Lin Oliver and I’m a children’s book author and I’m also founder and executive director of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators which is a non-profit organization comprised of over 25,000 people who write, illustrate, edit, and publish children’s books. So my life has been devoted to the creation of great quality literature for children.
I am, I am more than a southern California native. I am actually the original valley girl. I was born in the Galleria or actually right next to it, I spent my teenage years in the Galleria which was the original mall where valley speak created, was created, so I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get rid of my for sure valley totally girl accent.
When I was in high school, every other word was punctuated so like I go, and so like he goes and my parents who were from the east coast, my father went to Harvard University, made me start every sentence over if it had the word like or um or totally in it. And that was a very quiet year for me. It was hard to finish a sentence.