Rainey Leigh Seraphine is a late bloomer. It took her forty years to decide what she wanted to be when she grew up. A children's book author! Perhaps it was reading Andy Griffiths, Tim Winton, Mem Fox and many other wonderful authors to her two young daughters that gave her inspiration. Perhaps the imaginative and adorable antics of her daughters in toddlerhood did it. Either way, the world of a child's mind was preferable to adulthood. So, sunrise found her in pyjamas and fluffy slippers; steam rising from coffee as she pounded away on the keyboard, lost in a parallel of other worlds, before her kids woke up and brought her back to reality.

But the driving need to earn a living and the disillusionment of trying to get published saw her menagerie of characters and stories stacked with the cobwebs on the shelf. Blessed early retirement, technology and the chance to become a self-published indie author saw a whole new possibility. She reverted to child imaginings once again, blissfully creating more characters to coddle her in old age. Her eulogy will likely say, "Not yet! I have one more story to write!"