BUDDY AND THE GRANDCATS * book 1 
  Author selling books at the Wichita [KS] Art Museum -- a sell-out day.

The author and her husband with Gordon (new 1 yr old puppy) and 
Buddy, the star of the series. Will there be BUDDY AND THE NEW PUPPY

Marilyn Hope Lake - the author enjoying a cup of coffee and wathcing her grandchildren on a recent visit to her long time home of Columbia MO
 
  
Marilyn Hope Lake, PhD, is known most widely as a children's picture book author, but writes short fiction, plays, and poetry. She has been an educator, association executive, state public relations officer, as well as a state
cancer prevention trainer, and a small business development counselor. Her writings in these fields are many.  Marilyn is a lover of family, friends,  and animals.
Her belief 
that God's intent for each of us is revealed in the talents he gives us guides her to continue her creative activities. 
Currently, she is doing watercolor painting of the Kansas landscapes she has learned to love.