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Writer Kaytlin Huizinga will signal copies of her youngsters’s e book on Wednesday at Parallel 45 Books and Presents in downtown Alpena.
ALPENA — Kaytlin Huizinga is happy to deliver her first printed e book again to Northeast Michigan, a spot the place she has fond childhood reminiscences.
The youngsters’s creator shall be signing copies of her e book, “Sir Parker and the Quest for the Dreadful Dragon,” from 1 to three p.m. on Wednesday at Parallel 45 Books and Presents on North 2nd Avenue in downtown Alpena.
“The e book is an image e book for kids,” Huizinga stated. “The audience is youngsters ages 3 by means of 8, however I’ve had youngsters outdoors of that age vary who’ve loved it.”
The principle character is known as after her firstborn son who’s now 3 years previous.
“The e book is a couple of younger boy, about 7 or 8 years previous, he’s a knight, and he’s despatched out on a quest by his father, the king,” she defined. “To seek out a dragon who has been inflicting injury and scary villagers within the kingdom. And so, he takes his two finest mates, and so they go off searching for this dragon, however once they lastly arrive and discover it, they understand there’s multiple facet to each story, and so they have to select – do they mete out justice, as they had been informed to do, or do they present mercy and compassion?”
There’s positively a lesson in there.
“It’s a quest journey story for youths, but additionally teaches some necessary classes, too,” she stated.
The e book got here out on Oct. 7. She began writing it about two years in the past when her son, Parker, was 1.
“The character and his character relies lots off of my son,” she stated. “Initially, I wrote the e book for him. He loves books, and I like fantasy fiction, and this was a means of introducing that style to a younger youngster in a means that wasn’t scary or inappropriate.”
Huizinga and her household – her husband, Tim, and boys, Parker, 3, and Hunter, 1 — reside in Naperville, Illinois, however her mother and father personal a cabin in Glennie the place they’ll all meet for the upcoming vacation. Huizinga, whose maiden title is Goodwin, was born in Northeast Michigan and lived right here till she was about 10.
“I used to be out within the Harrisville/Lincoln space,” she stated.
She has been writing since she was 13 years previous.
“After I was 13, I watched after which learn ‘The Lord of the Rings’ for the primary time,” Huizinga recalled. “I loved ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ and people books as properly, however that e book actually, type of, spurred me on to start out having fun with writing extra, so I used to be, type of, torn in highschool about whether or not I wished to go to highschool for British lit or science, and ended up going the science route.”
She was glad she did that, as a result of she selected her faculty based mostly on their science program, and that’s the place she met her husband.
Huizinga has a bachelor’s diploma in Environmental Science from Cedarville College in Ohio. She presently stays at house elevating her younger sons and dealing on her writing. She plans to proceed the Sir Parker saga with extra tales to come back.
“It has been a very cool journey,” she added.
Attain Darby Hinkley at dhinkley@thealpenanews.com or 989-358-5691.
