The Nurse Florence series, a medical book series that is used to educate children, has illustrators of all ages, from 15 up. Michael Dow, a Registered Nurse in Tucson, has written every book of the extensive series.

In 2008, Dow made his first medical book dealing with calorie counts. Back then, he didn’t know that being a popular author would be difficult to accomplish, and over the next few years, he wasn’t that in to writing books. But in 2020, he decided to make medical books for his children during quarantine to give them constructive things to do and help their medical education. That was the start of Nurse Florence.

Florence Nightingale was the first person to create a nursing school and curriculum, and Dow wanted to honor her. With these books, he plans to help educate children by making the information easy to understand with colorful illustrations. These books help children understand the workings of the human body.

According to Dow, anyone who has the passion and skill to draw illustrations for books is welcome to contact him. Sandria, Dow’s niece, was the first teen to illustrate his books when she was 17. When she went to college, he started partnering with other illustrators. Dow enjoys offering unknown or littleknown artists the opportunity to become published.

To make the Nurse Florence’s books accurate, he uses his own RN expertise and information from medical publications to help write books about diseases and healthy living topics. He then gives the notes to his illustrator for that book, and they illustrate the intended idea. When I asked him if he had any advice for writing, he said one thing: start writing—write the book that comes to heart, and someday you will find a way to publish it.