adorable – Wanda Luthman’s Book Blog

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to Wanda Luthman’s Christian & Children’s Book Blog!

I’m super excited to introduce you to a new-to-me author, Ron Kinscherf. He has a book called Adorable and I know you’re going to love it. He’s here to tell us about it along with his journey to publishing…

Ron Kinscherf is an anomaly. In a world where only twenty percent of us say they are doing what they do best every day, Ron has discovered two things he is able to do very well.

After a successful career in IT consulting, he began making up stories to tell his grandchildren.
Soon, he became a children’s book author, not because he always dreamed of being one, but simply
because he loves his grandchildren and creating stories that make them smile.

It happened like this: One Sunday night at the Kinscherf Family dinner he mused about what he might do next in life. His daughter in law suggested – quite out of the blue – that he at least take a look at being a children’s author. Ron did take a look and as they say, the rest is history.

He is about to publish his 11th book, Adorable, and they have all been very well received and loved by those who have read them and those who have heard the heartfelt tales he pens.

In Adorable, the protagonist, Prince Antrew, couldn’t be happier! It’s Spring and the weather is perfect for his morning flight around the patio. Life is good … until he arrives at the Palace and meets his new little sister, Princes Adorable. Why would his mother, the Queen, do this to
him?! The Prince flies away as fast as he can, mad at the whole world. On his flight he runs into Wise Owl, the smartest creature in the neighborhood who gives him a different perspective on the change happening with his family. The Prince then rushes home to talk to his mother, armed with this new perspective.

To learn more, go to: https://papatellmeabook.com/

About Ron Kinscherf

Ron Kinscherf quit a 30-year career in IT Consulting with absolutely no idea for future
employment. At their regular Sunday Kinscherf Family dinner, his daughter-in-law had a
suggestion. Why not start writing children’s books? She had seen how Ron created stories
that engaged and amused his grandkids.

In the beginning, he didn’t take her suggestion seriously. But then, he got an idea while
watching his grandson stomp on the ant hills around his back patio. He wondered how the
ants might feel about having their homes destroyed. So began The Baker’s Patio series of
books, including The Bakers’ Patio, Flight School, The Sultan, The Monster, The Festival,
I’m With Me, Yummies, and his latest book, due out soon, Adorable.

Kinscherf’s style is for both the child and the reader… understanding that the more the adult
likes the book, the more likely it will get read again and again. His keen sense for dialogue
and humor is interwoven throughout his works.

Q & A with Author Ron Kinscherf

Q. At an age when most people are retiring, you have launched a new career
writing children’s books. Tell us a little about how that happened.

A. We have family dinners every Sunday night. One night we were talking about
what I was going to do next with my life. I said “I could drive a school bus.
They’re always looking for school bus drivers.” Then, out of the blue, my
daughter-in-law said “You could write children’s books. The way you play with the
kids is so creative. It seems to come naturally to you.”

And I sort of brushed that off and didn’t take it seriously at all. I thought it was just
a side comment. And it might’ve been the next Sunday that I was outside
barbecuing and my grandson started stomping on ant hills, and I’m just sitting there
watching him destroy all these poor ants’ houses. And I thought, ‘I wonder how
the ants feel about this?’ And that was the seed of an idea and I kind of created this
world where the ants have their ceilings destroyed or houses being destroyed. They
are looking up wondering what in the world is going on? And then I got the idea
that this happened every week when a grandson would come by. And then I got
another idea and another idea and then I started writing.

Q. What do you hope happens when parents and kids read your books?

A. I just want the parent to enjoy reading it and that maybe the book leads to a
conversation. And I want their child to have a good time. I want the kids to smile. I
want them to ask questions about the book. It’s pretty simple, really. If you create
something, no matter whether you are a songwriter or a painter or anything, you
just want people to enjoy it.

Q. So, your father who passed away when you were 5, worked for Golden
Books? What are the chances?

A. Yeah. That’s pretty crazy, isn’t it? My dad worked for one of the biggest
children’s book publishers and then decades later I became a children’s book
author. Things like this make me believe in Kismet, little winks that make me
think there’s a Plan and I am just a part of it.

My dad was very creative. One of my favorite possessions is something that I
remember him drawing with watercolors that we have on our wall, and my wife
got that framed for me, and it is just something we found one day going through
some stuff. I think I got my artistic bent from him. I’ve always been creative. When
I was in radio, I did parody commercials and sold them, and that was back in the
old days, we didn’t have computers and all that. So, you had to be creative. I also
did play by play for 25 years. And that’s a version of storytelling and creativity,
too. But nothing like this.

Your books all have a strong sense of community and strong female characters.
Talk about that for a minute.

It’s kind of interesting. I had written a number of manuscripts and wasn’t to the
point of publishing anything yet. One of my friends mentioned that she was so
happy that my little ant colony had such a strong female character … the Queen …
running things. It hit me. My father passed away when I was five. I had no idea I
was writing what I experienced.

I grew up around strong women. After my father’s death, my mom didn’t remarry.
She went on to get her psychiatric degree and she became the first psychiatric
nurse in this town, in this community I grew up in and still live in. She did that for
the rest of her life.

She was given an award one time for her service to the community. When she gave
her acceptance speech, she thanked the neighborhood because it was an old
Catholic neighborhood, a couple blocks from the parish and the church. We all
looked out for each other because a couple of the other families had loss … one
family had eight kids, another family had six.

e had a kid living with us that
wasn’t in our family for a while, and he bounced around from house to house. If
my mom needed to do something, I’d run across to another house and play in the
backyard of somebody else’s house and I never gave it a second thought.

So, I think there was this unwritten agreement among all these families in the
neighborhood that they would keep an eye on each other. And she said in her
speech that she wouldn’t be here without the neighborhood. It was a real
community and we all were better off for it.

Thank you, Ron, for being here today and telling us about your incredible journey. You are an inspiration to many. Your books have wonderful messages for children. I’m glad you shared them with your grandchildren as well as the rest of the world.

And thank you to my loyal blog followers. I have been away for awhile because my Mom moved into the house next door to me and it’s taken awhile to get her settled. I appreciate your patience and support.

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