Authors

Writing a book with my sister has been an absolute joy. We have probably spoken more in the last 18 months than in the last 18 years!

Candice Zee is a multi-award-winning middle-grade and YA fantasy writer who first dreamed the idea of The Munchkins as a child while playing make-believe with her brother in Wilkes-Barre, PA. She is an early childhood teacher with an M.Ed. in Elementary Education and has taught for over twelve years in Pre-K, Kindergarten, and primary grade classrooms. Like Casey Munch in her book series, she is passionate about creating a more just and equitable world. She savors vegan food, loves board games and podcasts, relishes horror movies and novels, devours social science nonfiction, spontaneously belts out tunes from musicals, and does some of her best writing while drinking coffee at 1 AM. She lives in Cleveland, OH with her wife Dana and their dog companion Solstice. The Munchkins is her debut four-time award-winning novel.. 

Frederick Douglass Reynolds is a retired L.A. County Sheriff’s Homicide Sergeant. He was born in Rocky Mount, Virginia, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan where he became a petty criminal and was involved in gangs. He joined the US Marine Corps in 1979 to escape the life of crime that he seemed destined for. After a brief stint in Okinawa, Japan, he finished out his military career in southern California and ultimately became a police officer with the Compton police department. He worked there from 1985 until 2000 and then transferred to the sheriff’s department where he worked an additional seventeen years, retiring in 2017 with over seventy-five commendations including two California Officer of the Year awards. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Carolyn, and their daughter Lauren and young son, Desmond. They have six other adult children and nine grandchildren.   

Il mio nome è André Settembrino e sono conosciuto come "Il Mentalista". Sono nato con una curiosità insaziabile e una passione per svelare i misteri. Fin da giovane ho scoperto la mia abilità unica di addentrarmi nella mente degli altri e svelare i loro pensieri e segreti più profondi.

Mentre affinavo le mie capacità, ho capito di avere il potere di affascinare il pubblico e portarlo in un viaggio affascinante attraverso le meraviglie della mente umana. Ho deciso di condividere il mio dono con il mondo e ho intrapreso una carriera emozionante come mentalista.

Durante i miei viaggi e le mie performance, ho incontrato innumerevoli giovani menti assetate di conoscenza e avventura. Ispirato dal loro entusiasmo, ho intrapreso una nuova impresa creativa: scrivere una serie di libri per bambini chiamata "Magic in Fabula".

"Magic in Fabula" è una coinvolgente collezione di storie che unisce la magia dell'arte all'emozione della narrazione. Ogni libro della serie porta i giovani lettori in un'avventura avvincente, immergendoli in un mondo in cui l'immaginazione non ha limiti.

Attraverso queste storie, il mio obiettivo è ispirare i bambini a esplorare la propria creatività, abbracciare i loro talenti unici e credere nel potere dei loro sogni. Voglio accendere la loro curiosità, incoraggiandoli a guardare il mondo attraverso diverse prospettive e ad apprezzare la bellezza che li circonda.

"Magic in Fabula" è diventata una serie amata, apprezzata sia dai bambini che dai genitori. Questi libri possono essere trovati su Amazon, dove i giovani lettori possono intraprendere viaggi indimenticabili, scoprendo regni nascosti e svelando la magia che si cela al loro interno.

Quindi, unitevi a me in questa avventura incantevole, dove arte e narrazione si intrecciano, e lasciate che la vostra immaginazione voli con "Magic in Fabula". Insieme, sbloccheremo il potere della creatività e accenderemo un amore duraturo per l'arte e la letteratura.

Grazie per far parte di questo incredibile percorso!

Born in a close-knit family where drama is the norm, becoming an author was not surprising. In her writing, Masterson draws readers into a world of escapism and expression. Storytelling comes alive in her descriptive writing, and the complexities of human relationships are better understood through the lens of fantasy and paranormal romance. Masterson currently resides in New England with her family, an aging Chihuahua, a rambunctious Pitbull/Boxer mix, and a feisty cat who rules us all.

Reflecting on her own childhood, Kathy Kelley had loving parents, but was never taught how to express and process "negative" feelings. As a result, she suppressed many of them, feeling shame and guilt when she felt anything but positive emotions. She became a mother at the age of twenty-one but lost her own mother two years later.

Heartbroken, and working at a soul-destroying job she could not afford to leave, Kathy became deeply depressed. Happiness was elusive—something she had always been waiting for. One day, she admitted to herself that she was angry and sad. She was frustrated by how reactive she was, and regretful about her lack of patience with her son. She hated who she had become. Looking back, Kathy saw that she had not been equipped to teach her son how to process thoughts and emotions in a healthy way, and had instead passed on her unsuccessful coping strategies.

Kathy had her second son sixteen years after her first, with a lot of self-development and learning in between. As the result of a mindfulness journey lasting over a decade, Kathy now feels very positive about life and the future. Becoming a mother again has given her the chance to not only share what she has learned with both of her sons, but also help parents and children to acknowledge and deal with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings in a healthy way through meditation.

Kathy lives in Alberta, Canada.

Prof. Robert Stewart is a retired clandestine operative who was recruited, while a student at U.C. Berkeley, into a special program for humans with Paranormal abilities. He holds a D.Sc in Astronomy & Biology from Berkeley, and an Honorary Doctorate in World Religions from Provident University in Delaware. His fields of expertise are Martial Arts, child extraction from cults, world religions, science, and the Occult. Musician was his deep cover or camouflage life.

Prof. Robert Stewart is a multi-instrumentalist (saxophones, piano, flute, drum, vocals, etc.), composer, and producer. His two major label albums (“The Force” and “In the Gutta”) were for Quincy Jones and Qwest/Warner Bros. records. He is known for his unique – personal sound and remarkably inventive improvisations declares Los Angeles Times journalist Bill Kohlhaase, as the lead tenor saxophonist on the Pulitzer Prize winning “Blood on the Fields” by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, and as the protegé of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. Jazz critic Jason Ankeny declared Stewart to be one of the most impressive jazz saxophonists to emerge at the end of the 20th century. Drummer Billy Higgins refers to Stewart as "perhaps the most important young artist to come along in decades."

Roger E. Pedersen, author of the Sci-Fi, dystopian SuperPower book series, began writing after losing everything, including his job, paramour, house, and car, which caught fire.

After extensive research, Roger, who lived in a homeless shelter near New York City, began writing the first SuperPower book.

Roger is not just a talented writer but a man of diverse interests. With an advanced degree in Computer Science Software Production, he is also a US Chess Life Candidate Master. His love for adventure is evident in his enjoyment of cruising on Carnival, visiting the Florida and California theme parks, and seeing blockbuster movies weekly.

Before his foray into writing, Roger was a top computer game designer and developer. His expertise in this field is evident in the SuperPower series, where readers can play three games as they progress through each book. These games involve identifying the referenced movie, book, or music, such as when Apollo Steele, the best man at his twin brother Rocky's wedding, quotes, 'Your 'Pretty Woman' has become 'The Runaway Bride.' Both are Julia Roberts and Richard Gere movies.

In addition to writing the SuperPower book series, Roger E. Pedersen has written the script for book 1, 'Deal of the Art,' which can be optioned and viewed along with the other books on StoryRocket.com.

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I believe everyone has a purpose greater than themselves and I write about Universal heroes’ and their galactic adventures securing humanity’s future across stardust gateways.