Episode 119: 'A Dog & His Boy' Authors Heidi Bullen & Lisa & Scott Wentzell

"For several years I had been thinking about writing a book about my son Scotty, he has a rare syndrome and developmental delays. One day in June 2020, on Facebook someone said you should write a book about Spillway and Scotty and I said to myself yes, I've been wanting to do that, so at that moment, I texted Heidi and asked her if she would write a book about Spillway and Scotty with me and she said yes!  That was on a Tuesday and on Wednesday I was on zoom with my mom and she had said that she woke up too early that morning to get up and was thinking about Spillway and Scotty and decided to put her thoughts down on paper and it was a letter from Spillway talking about how lucky he was to be Scotty‘s friend. That's where we got the idea to write the book from Spillway's point of view. Then on that Thursday, our illustrator sent me two drawings, one of Spillway on a surfboard and one on skis and said she thought Scotty might like those for his picture book. I knew right away that this was the time and it was meant to be to write this book. So Heidi and I got together on zoom from June to August and wrote the book. Heidi has already written a couple of books and she’s a third grade teacher. Having her start writing the book inspired me to write, and it was such a fun process. When she read the first lines of the book, I was in tears, and I still cry sometimes. Once we were done the book, we needed a publisher, so I put it out on Facebook, and a friend of mine connected me with Stephanie Mulligan, the publisher of McSea Books, and in our first conversation, we realized that she knew Scotty because she was an Ed Tech to one of his classmates in our school district! I knew she had to publish our book."

The story behind this book and its message is one I HAD to share with you!

Learn more about everything the Wentzell Family is doing at https://spillwayandscotty.com/

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