Denene milner biography of rory

1. What inspired you to write a children's book about Church on Sunday opposed to a young adult book on Church/How has your faith in your own writing skills improved over the years?

Oh goodness, it was in the pews of St.

John’s Baptist Church in Copiague, New York, where I learned how to be. I was a member there until I went away to college, but the moments I remember most occurred when I was little—a kid being filled with the love of my family and the church community that was also my family.

And so I wanted to honor that specific moment in time that shaped me, and I thought the best way to do that would be in a picture book instead of a novel.

“Early Sunday Morning” was actually written back in about 2003, when my own daughters were young and I was struggling to find a place for them that mirrored my experience growing up in the church.

I wanted them to feel that connection—to really understand what it means to stand up in fron