He Felt Like A Rock Star!

A couple of months before Christmas, Ric was asked to help a local Artist with some illustration for a book she wanted to write. She is a painter and Ric said he would love to illustrate but he wanted her to paint the illustrations so it would look like her work.
The hardbound book came out before Christmas, had a website with all sorts of merchandise to do with the book and was even found in both Barnes & Noble and Borders here in Tucson. Apparently, it was very successful!
Ric received a call a couple of weeks ago from someone in our Stake who works at a local Elementary School. During the holidays the Librarian of this school read this book to various classes and the woman saw the name and wondered if it was the same person she knew. In the back of the book she discovered his Bio and let the Librarian know she knew him.
Well, this week he was asked to come to the school twice and talk about the book and told him he needed to take up to an hour. He met with the students in the cafeteria and talked about the steps of illustrating and printing with a question and answer period. Afterwards, he had dozens of the students ask for his autograph. He said he has now had his 15 minutes of fame!

By the way, he is doing another book with this Artist as well as some illustrations with a book of poetry from someone else who somehow saw this book!