Award-winning children’s author, Tom C. Greer, loves an audience.  As a child growing up in Texarkana, TX, he was an avid reader and storyteller.  In school, Greer was one of the "smart kids" and part of the popular crowd, but still somewhat shy and reserved.  That all changed when he joined a public speaking class at his alma mater, Liberty-Eylau High School.  It was winning a citywide contest that pushed him to the next level. 

In college at Southwestern Assemblies of God College at Waxahachie, TX, Greer studied Christian Education and found himself writing songs and poetry.  Sometimes a thought would come to him and he would grab a pencil and write for hours. This was the beginning of an "adventure" he had no idea was starting.  Upon graduation in December 1986, Greer moved to Hawaii to work for Teen Challenge, a Christian based rehabilitation center.

While Hawaii was a wonderful experience, Greer made the move back to Texas after three years and began studies in an alternative certification program to teach.  It was the fall of 1991 and  he was back in Texarkana and working at Liberty-Eylau Elementary School as a Special Education teacher. He was living with his mother at the time and surprised her one day by bringing home a big pasteboard box with a fluffy apricot poodle puppy inside.  He dropped off the box at home and asked his mom to keep it while he went to work.  While she was not too happy to see him bring home a dog, she knew he loved animals. This experience became the plot of his first book about Honey.

After living in Texarkana for six years, Greer made the move to Dallas, TX and started to reflect on Honey and how much fun she seemed to have while doing her day-to-day routines.  He wrote A New Home for Honey and shoved it in a dresser drawer.  He promised himself that one day he was going to make a book out of the story.  Before long, he penned Honey’s Peanut Butter Adventure.  This title had Honey reflecting back on how she had snuck up into the kitchen cabinets and gotten a jar of peanut butter down, rolled it to the couch, and somehow got the lid off. 

Once again, the story got shoved into a drawer and was soon forgotten about.  In early 2006, while doing some “Spring cleaning”, Greer found the two stories and decided it was time to take the stories to the next level.  He found an illustrator through an internet talent base who was willing to use photographs of the actual locations of the stories and began the process of creating his books.

Greer sent his stories to several publishing houses but none seemed interested.  He finally decided to take the stories to his target audience, school children.  He found a teacher who worked with him in Lancaster, TX ISD and had her read the first story to her third grade class.  The class loved the story so much that they created a bulletin board all about Honey and her feelings and said that they could not wait to read the next book.

After several other classes across the district read the story, Greer decided to form his own publishing house that would be dedicated to his stories.  Remembering his love for running through the branches of weeping willow trees as a child, he named his company Weeping Willow Publishing.

Since forming his own publishing house, Greer has continued to look no place but up, and he now has three titles in the Honey series.  The third story, Honey Visits Grandpa Smith, has the pet going to see the author’s father, Curtis Greer, and the setting is the house where Greer grew up. 

Greer is continuing to brainstorm ideas for additional books about Honey, and is making initial notes for books tentatively titled Honey Goes to School and Honey’s Swimming Adventure. His focus right now is the manual he hopes to package with the first three titles and market to elementary teachers.