Two Snowflakes!

Hello! I just joined the network and wanted to introduce myself and my book! My name is Jennifer Miller and I am a Mother to 3 1/2 year old identical twin girls. After having a hard time finding good children's books, relating to the "twin experience" for my girls, I decided to write my own! It's called "Two Snowflakes" and it's available as a free e-book, and for sale in print form at twosnowflakes.net

I've actually been studying up on press releases today and I'm attempting to create my own. I think I need to edit this down some, but I've actually solicited some advice from people on the two twin boards I'm on to see what they think and if they'd like to add a quote (which might actually help me in editing this). Here's what I have so far, though:

Multiple births are on the rise. Is the children's book industry keeping up?

A World of Twins
Twin Parents write books for their children... and their future "singleton" classmates, as well.

Baltimore, MD - March 8, 2009 - With the help of the popular self-publishing website Lulu.com, Jennifer Miller of Cockeysville, MD, along with others, speak to a new generation of children, seemingly ignored by the commercial children's book publishing industry: Twins and Higher-Order Multiples. And, it may not only benefit the twins themselves, but those they will come in contact with throughout their life, as well.

While searching the children's section of her local library with her new identical twin daughters, Miller found many books exploring the issues relating to all youngsters, such as sharing, potty-training, and early reading skills. However, after several exhaustive searches, she came up relatively empty-handed, when it came to books that would speak to her own children's unique, however more commonplace, experience of growing up "twin."

So, she decided to write her own: "Two Snowflakes." It is a story that speaks to the dilemma of identical twins in particular, who can struggle with the extra childhood challenge of establishing their own unique identities, in the face of a society that, frankly, may only see one face.

And, if a search on the word "twin" in the children's book section of self-publishing websites such as Lulu.com is any indication, she's not alone.

While reality shows may be featuring an ever-increasing concentration of stories about multiple births (especially unusually high orders of multiples), the children's bookshelves are relatively bare on the subject. And with a new generation of children that will include more sets of twins than ever before, many parents wonder how to explain a concept which, even to many adults, may be a mystery: What is it like to have a twin?

There are a few twin books on the commercial market today, but they usually speak directly to twins and their families. However, Miller believes it is also important to address their "singleton" peers (as they are referred to in the twin world).

Available as both a free e-book, and for sale in print form at twosnowflakes.net, Jennifer Miller's story of identical twin snowflakes, asks the question, "Is it true that no two snowflakes are exactly alike?" The answer is summed up best by the last page of the book:

"So, the next time you see two snowflakes, that look exactly alike,
Just look closer, and don't be fooled by first sight."