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by Elsie Walker uring Spring 2020, Pompton Lake resident Laura Jennings found herself working at home, balancing an eight-hour workday with caring for her two-yearold son, while her husband, an essential worker, was at his job. One day, Jennings and her son were looking out the window at what was going on outside. They noticed a tow truck which wasn’t towing a vehicle. She described it to her son as “the no truck tow truck” and started to make up a story about it. In a recent interview, Jennings teased that in the story, “The No Truck Tow Truck has an existential crisis”. A tow truck’s goal is to tow a truck, but it had none. Through rhyming and alliteration, she told the story of how the No Truck Tow Truck helps his friend Tommy Truck and they both benefit: Tommy gets fixed and the tow truck fulfills its goal. Jennings worked on editing her story by retelling it to her son and fine tuning it, then shared the story with her husband. He thought it was good. Jennings felt she was on to something and “beta tested it” with other parents she knew, so that other children heard it. The feedback was very positive and Jennings wanted to make The No Truck Tow Truck into a 10-page children’s book. Jennings is not an illustrator and a children’s book needs pictures. However, she didn’t have a big budget. During the 2021 Superbowl, she saw an advertisement for Fiverr (www.fiverr.com), a place where freelancers market their services. There she found Michelle Vergara, of California, who became the book’s illustrator. Jennings decided to self-publish the book as it would be quicker than looking for an agent and working with publishing houses. Also, the latter might want changes that she didn’t agree with, and with self-publishing, the
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