Quality Comes First
There are many amazing authors and many excellent published children’s books. I may not be one of those authors. But here I am on this page anyway.
Not an Expert's Work
I invent and I imagine stories. I write and I write. But I’m far from an expert writer. I leave that to the experts.
Real Results
If I wait for a publishing house to find just one of my stories, I may have to wait in vain. That’s why it’s taken a lot of time to get here. The result is plainly that I’m at the stage when I just have to try with self publishing at e.g. Amazon or others.
Welcome to About Lena
In Sweden
I have always loved to write. Started as a young child and invented stories about trolls, witches and treasures. Then life evolved into more serious stuff.
After studying came a life of working, marriage and children, then more education followed by operating own businesses before retirement.
I had already gone back to writing in my 40’s - 50’s after having undertaken courses in Creative Writing for Children. The inventing and writing have been hobbies throughout my life. Other hobbies include crocheting, mainly blankets. Examples of my blankets if you like to see.
Moving to Australia
My life has been filled with adventures. As a family of five, we took a huge step, and migrated from Sweden to Australia in 1977.
After nine months in Adelaide to acclimatise ourselves, we left for one year of travelling in a caravan along the east cost. The children joined Adelaide Correspondence School, and I had to become their full time teacher with the help of the school. Everything went fine, which means I learned a lot too.
First stop, on the one year “working holiday”, was in Mildura, Victoria, for the grape picking season of 1978.
That adventure resulted in my first published story on Amazon called “MARMALADE”. You may read a description of this story on my book page.
Other memories, or even adventures, may show up in some of my other written stories waiting to be reworked and/or revised.
If you wait for more of my stories, you should know I have at least five more just needing to be revised and reworked. Then, after them, I will be ready for more inventing to come up with some more fantastic adventures to be published.