Julie Lawson is the award-winning author of many books for young people. Her novels include White Jade Tiger (winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Book Literature Prize and nominated for both the Canadian Li…
Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author most recently TAKE MY HAND (2022). Take My Hand was awarded the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Literary Work-Fiction and the BCALA Fiction Awa…
Gina N. Brown has written three novels: Pickled in Love (2025), The Sugar Bowl Feud (2024) and Lucy McGee’s Moment of Truth (2021). She has also written freelance travel, lifestyle and memoir articles…
Andy Tolson spent much of the 1980s as a drummer in London, England, playing both pubs and concert halls, though mostly pubs. He has been a boy magician, prop-maker, and writer. At The National Post a…
Heidi Tattrie Rushton has been a freelance reporter, social media manager, international recruiter, and playground leader. She also has experience working at an animal shelter, was a kid-activist thro…
Since 2006, New York Times bestseller Donna Jones Alward has enchanted readers with stories of happy endings and homecomings that have won several awards and been translated into over a dozen language…