How a Bernedoodle puppy became a published character
I never set out to write a children's book. I set out to raise a really good dog.
Finn arrived in our family as a wide-eyed Bernedoodle puppy who treated every backyard rock like a teammate, every soccer ball like a personal mission, and every sunset like the closing scene of a sports movie. He was — and is — pure heart in a fluffy coat.
One night, watching him hold his own against my kids in a pretend World Cup final on the lawn, the first sentence of Finn for the Win just arrived: "Finn was the smallest pup on the team, but he had the biggest dreams." A few months and a lot of revisions later, that sentence became a book.
The Finn Adventures series is built on one idea: kids deserve stories where the underdog wins by being completely, wonderfully themselves. No makeovers. No personality transplants. Just heart, humor, and showing up — paws and all.
