Serendipity Literary Agency CEO and AALA President Regina Brooks is one of five publishing professionals chosen by Publishers Weekly as a 2024 Person of the Year. “Drawing on her first career working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Regina Brooks is bringing the innovative spirit of an engineer to the publishing industry… Since joining the…
Written by Vera Ahiyya Illustrated by Debby Rahmalia It’s time to get ready for Valentine’s Day! Kai’s whole class is busily preparing by making friendship cards, decorating homemade mailboxes, and sharing delicious sweets and treats. But Kai and their friends can’t help but worry… what if they don’t receive any cards at alll? Luckily, their teacher…
DAN LISHIllustrator www.danlish.com Photo Download | Bio Download Dan Lish is an English artist who has worked within the creative industry for over 25 years, with a client list that includes Lucas Arts, Sony, Activision, Rockstar Games, and the BAFTA Award-winning Bossa Studios. He has also worked with many artists in the music industry, creating artwork…
KATARA PATTONAuthor katara.pattonhome.net Photo Download | Bio Download Katara Washington Patton is Executive Editor at Our Daily Bread Publishing, and the author of eight books, including her latest Navigating the Blues: Where to Turn When Worry, Anxiety, or Depression Steal Your Hope, an Amazon best-seller. She is also the author of a series of books on…
By Shirley Neal The top memes, movements, and milestone moments dominating today’s social media have focused on Beyoncé, Rihanna, Hip-Hop, Usher, Black Enterprise crews, “Abbott Elementary”’s rise, and Oprah’s slim down. Driven by Black millennials, these trending topics demonstrate the influence and power of Black artistry and celebrity in American popular culture and around the globe.…
By Jennifer McGaha Once you begin looking for joy, you can find it pretty much anywhere. When Jennifer McGaha’s grandmother was in her late eighties, Jennifer asked her what her favorite age so far had been. “Fifty-five,” her grandmother answered, as though there were something magical about this stage of life, some deeper way of…
By Vanessa M. Reiser, LCSW Gaslighting. Love bombing. Hoovering. Triangulating. These are all insidious weapons in the narcissist’s toolkit. Narcissism can be hard to diagnose, but it is one of the hallmarks of abusive relationships. As a therapist specializing in narcissism and domestic abuse, Vanessa M. Reiser has strategies to help victims to identify, understand,…
By Ellie Yang Camp A primer on racism that offers an intersectional, anti-racist, coalition-building view of Asian American identity. What does it mean to be Asian American? How does our racialization in the United States shape our lives and our worldviews? With candor and care, Ellie Yang Camp, a Taiwanese American educator, offers a set…
RENEE KINGAuthor Photo Download | Bio Download Renee King was born in Harlem and spent her early years in the Bronx, NY until her family relocated to Queens. Renee’s passion for storytelling ignited during her time in elementary and middle school. It was in those formative years that she discovered her love for crafting narratives,…
CANDI CARTERAuthor Photo Download | Bio Download Before becoming Chief Content Officer for the e-commerce production company Knocking.com, Candi Carter spent fifteen years producing some of the most memorable hours of television in daytime history for The Oprah Winfrey Show. Carter became an executive producer/showrunner for ABC and had a first-look development deal with ABC…
