Candice Ransom is the author of more than one hundred children’s books—picture books, chapter books, easy readers, mid-grade novels, biographies, nonfiction, even board books. She also teaches writing for children in Hollins University’s summer MA/MFA program. She is very busy, which is why I’m writing this letter.

We live in Fredericksburg, Virginia, “America’s Most Historic City.” By “we,” I mean Candice, her husband Frank, yours truly, Persnickety, the snooty calico who turns her nose up at caviar. Despite my devastating good looks and charming personality, I am only in ten of Candice’s books (the whole Time Spies series, but still, I should be in more)

Three things you don’t know about Candice:

She once kept a flea circus in a cologne bottle, but the cologne was still in the bottle so the fleas drowned. If you shook the bottle, it was like a creepy snow globe. She still talks to her childhood toy, a 55-year-old stuffed elephant named Ellsworth. She is a terrible cook (thank heavens my food comes in cans). Browse around . . . and stop by often!