Author's note:
This picture book about coping with loss is my most special writing memory, since it was my first attempt at composing a story for children. After sending out my manuscript to around 15 publishers, and receiving incredibly helpful feedback from several editors whose words helped me with my revision process, I found a home for my book with a very devoted and family-oriented publishing house, Centering Corporation. My dear and talented friend, Mary McConnell, was selected to be illustrator, and her delicate, lovely pencil sketches illuminate the story. My children and family were models for Mary's drawings in the book, so I see their faces as I turn the pages. I sold the film rights to A Quilt for Elizabeth to FilmFair Communications in Hollywood, California. Although Michel de Mers wrote a wonderful script for a short animated feature based on my book, the production was never made because another company bought FilmFair before the project came to fruition.