Author Bio  

      Dear Daisy 

Jane Marla Ver Dow is a Farmer by roots, Teacher by degree, Physical Therapist by credentials, and Author by passion.

 

Dear Daisy is the author's first novel inspired by and dedicated

to her "adopted Grandmother". Recent years she has devoted       her time to writing nonfiction and publishing her works through

Rising Sparrow Press, established 2003 by the author in the

spirit and tradition of Early American Literature.

 

Anyone knowing the author would tell you her hobbies include storytelling, traveling and recording footsteps, and that she is    most at home under a cherry or apple tree. Jane calls the Lake Ontario shoreline of Upstate New York home.       

 

                                      

 

 

Author's Letter

 

Welcome.

I hope you enjoy the feel of this website. I hope it feels like

home. 

 

Some say one always knows what they want to be when they

grow up. Truth told, I always knew. At least on some level.

There are the stories my sister could tell of me taking all of the

Little Golden Books in our house and printing my name on

the front inside cover. Those same storybooks now are part of

my home library.

 

Maybe it was more obvious than I knew when I would write

and hand my work to anyone to read just to watch them read,

seeing their face change, knowing where they were and what I

had written that could alter their expression. Connection.    

 

I never spent a single second or stamp sending in any of my    words to Publishing Houses. That was part of the vision I had.    Back when. Not sending in any of my work, that is. To be

censored or edited or rejected was not part of the plan.

 

Researching traditional marketing pathways I soon found

myself discontent with modern ways. Too many authors sound

the same. Especially the "how to" books. Too much sales focus

and not enough of anything else. I was searching for my voice.

I love authors who have their own. 

 

You see, I knew the greats that I loved back when I was

dreaming this dream to author made their own path. There was something pioneering, adventurous, even daring about writing words and finding a path for words to travel. 

 

So here I am. Writing and finding that pathway.

 

My dream now? That someone two hundred years from now

will find a copy of my work and it will still hold value.         

 

 

Jane Marla Ver Dow