📚✨ Children’s Author & Illustrator Week: Final Day ✨📚 As Children’s Author & Illustrator Week comes to a close, we want to end with gratitude—and a reminder that stories don’t exist without support. One of the most meaningful ways to celebrate children’s authors and illustrators is by

✨ We’re thrilled to share some incredible news! ✨ Cruise of a Lifetime: Mac in Montevideo has won the Literary Titan Gold Award. 🥇 When we wrote Mac in Montevideo, our goal wasn’t awards—it was curiosity. We wanted to create a story that invited young readers to explore the world, embrace new

✨📚 Creating Story Magic 📚✨ Story magic doesn’t happen by accident. It’s created—one word, one illustration, one moment of wonder at a time. For Alexandrea Kleinsmith and I, creating story magic means building worlds where curiosity is rewarded, questions are encouraged, and young readers feel

#gettoknowme as an author Why I wrote #Bloodlines . One of the things I cherish most about being a writer isn’t just the stories. It’s the tribe. When you find your people, something incredible happens. You start lifting each other up. You cheer each other on through rejections, revi