Look for Jackie's 2010 book
The Chiru of High Tibet

(Houghton Mifflin)

  I grew up on a farm in Maine with three brothers, two sisters, my parents, and a great-great uncle. My grandparents lived downstairs. Even when I was a child I loved the sounds of words, the sounds of the names of the cows on our farm, such as Riverflat Blanche Wisconsin. We did not do much writing when I was in school and I did not imagine I would one day be writing books.

I hope readers and story-lovers will come here to learn about my stories and books, and to think more about making stories out of their own interests, worries, hopes, and old socks, or best stew.