It’s no joke that 2020 has been a kooky year so far dealing with the coronavirus. Having to stay at home for extended periods of time, not having in-person contact with family or friends and having to don masks when going out in public is much easier for adults to grasp than it is for kids.
Emily Wilson, a Windsor resident and mother of two young girls, began to notice effects the pandemic was having on her oldest daughter and some of her friends.
Wanting to help ease their anxiety over the pandemic, Wilson decided to pen a short children’s book about why people are staying home, wearing masks and being careful around one another. She tilted her creation “I Love You Enough.”
Wilson decided to take a stab at writing a children’s book after seeing the positive impact books had on her daughter.
“My daughter began biting her nails after we brought our second daughter home,” she explained. “We found a Bearstein Bears book about having a bad habit. We read it twice and she realized that biting her nails is a bad habit and she didn’t want to do that anymore. It was glorious.
“That’s when I realized, at least for her, that books are super powerful.”
With a rough idea of what she wanted the book to look like, Wilson set about the task of writing in between taking care of her two children and running a household.
“I am my father’s daughter and so when I have a thought, it wakes me up and I sit there and think about it,” she explained. “So there was a couple of sleepless nights where I would be up to nurse the baby and she’d go back to sleep wonderfully and I’d be up the next two or three hours thinking about things.”
The easy rhyming rhythm of the book keeps little ones focused and interested.
The world is full of little germs
That you and I can’t see.
Usually, those tiny things
Are harmless as can be.
But some of them can make us sick-
We start to cough and sneeze.
And today there’s a particular kind
That can make it hard to breathe.
Wilson also illustrated the book.
“I am not an artist so the pictures are pretty terrible,” Wilson said, laughing. “But my daughter didn’t mind, she really connected with the story.”
Wilson decided to self-publish the book in hopes that it would help other families with young children understand everything that is taking place due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The book is available on Kindle through Amazon as both an e-book for $1.99 and a paperback for $9.99. Wilson plans to donate any money raised through the sale of the books to local COVID-19 relief funds.
Wilson is currently working with an illustrator out of Boston to improve the pictures in the book for republishing.
“I’ll split the proceeds with her and she plans to donate any money from the book sales to charity,” Wilson said.
The literary world isn’t new to Wilson. The Windsor resident produces and edits audio books for Audible.
“After I had my second child, I just was sitting around,” she said. “I am not a sitter so I started looking around and I saw something online about recording audio books and work from home.”
Self-published authors connect with audiobook narrators through ACX, an online narration company.
Narrators create a profile and upload voice samples for authors to choose from. From there, authors and narrators negotiate the work and pay.
Wilson is currently contracted with an author to record 16 books.
“I’ve got a lot of work to do,” Wilson said, laughing. “They saw that for every 10,000 words it takes an hour to read.”
On average it takes about 2 to 3 hours to record and edit a book, Wilson said.
“In the summer, everyone mows their lawn and the sound of mowers come right through the walls,” she said. “So sometimes I don’t get to record as often as I like because somebody in the neighborhood is mowing.
“I love it though, it’s a lot of fun,” she added.
To check out Wilson’s book at Amazon, go to https://amzn.to/3dS1yqy.
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