About
the Book
Title:
AbbeyLoo and Gus The Talking Toad
Author:
Tammy Cortez
Genre:
Children’s Books
AbbeyLoo is a curious little girl with a BIG
imagination. This imagination takes AbbeyLoo to some very exciting
and often unexpected places.
AbbeyLoo
loves exploring her backyard. There is always something new to see.
Her favorite find is the many toads that roam her backyard. AbbeyLoo
loves to carefully catch the toads and pet them and talk to them.
Normally they don’t talk back, but today is totally different.
Follow along with AbbeyLoo on her latest adventure as she meets Gus,
the talking toad.
Author
Bio
Tammy
Cortez
Tammy Cortez is a Fremont, California native now
living in Georgetown, Texas. She grew up living in suburbia but spent
every weekend at their horse ranch 30 minutes away in the country.
Tammy competed in team penning events, winning many of them,
including 1st place in a larger event resulting in her first silver
belt buckle, still one of her prized possessions.
She has been married for 25 years to a guy she met
in the 7th grade and remained friends with through middle and high
school. They have two daughters, 24 & 12.Tammy spent the first
two years of her marriage as a Navy wife having lived at the well
known and much loved NAS Miramar (now MCAS Miramar) and then NAS
Lemore, both in California.
Outside
of enjoying time with her family, Tammy loves repurposing old
furniture and other fun finds as well as painting. Not painting on
canvas, though she would love to give that a whirl, but home interior
painting. “It’s the one thing everyone dreads, but I find almost
therapeutic,” she says.
She found, or re-found, her passion for writing
when she decided to write a story intended as a gift for her youngest
daughter. After discussing it with a couple of friends that had
written books, she was convinced she should publish it. “When I
started writing I found something I realize now, I had lost. Back in
high school I had an English teacher, I wish I could remember her
name, but she had us do this great writing exercise. We would close
our eyes and lay our heads down on our desks. She would then read a
few sentences that were descriptive of a location and situation, and
then ask us to raise our heads and write what we saw. We would go
through this process a few times and the end result was a story. When
many of my classmates had 2 – 3 pages I had 6+ pages. I could write
and write and write. Then I stopped. I guess it was so
non-traditional I just never even considered it as a career. I write
very much in the same manner now. Very off the cuff.”
The
move to Texas took Tammy away from her Business Analyst job in
Information Technology at an energy laboratory in California. This
move opened up a door that never would have been considered before.
Tammy found Waldorf Publishing through a friend and is working on a
series of children’s books as well as some middle grade books. She
is now dedicated to writing when she isn’t volunteering at her
daughter’s school or spending time with family and friends.
Links
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