Local woman promotes her newest book
Caught up in everything happening in downtown this weekend, you might have missed Rinda Beach.
The author was at Riverside Art Center Saturday promoting her new book, Zoe's Scavenger Hunt Fun, launched on March 9.
A companion to her previous book, Lake Fun for You and Me, her new one is a chapter book, something Beach wasn't expecting.
"It surprised me, but it really fits because I get to tell you a little more about the lake,' she said.
Her new book was inspired by her family trips to Norris Lake in Tennessee, an area she described as her 'happy place'.
"So many things in the book are things that happened to my family," she said.
Beach also admitted scavenger hunts weren't part of her family vacations.
She started writing last July and was finished by February.
Beach said it was hard to show the story but not tell it.
"Half of the story is what's on the page, the other half is the reader's imagination," she said.
Zoe's Scavenger Hunt Fun is also an activity book, with the back of the book serving as a journal where readers can fill in the pages with their own stories.
Beach is already planning another adventure for Zoe.
"I went to the zoo on a cold day in January, it was raining," she said.
Most importantly, she wants to encourage her readers to have fun
In the meantime, she's working on other manuscripts from last October with the help of an agent. She's also planning another chapter book involving a school, an ant and summer vacation, tentatively titled The School is Dead.
"If you've ever been in a school in the summer, it's dead without kids and teachers," she said. "That's where I got the idea. I'm a principal's daughter."