Tigest Girma
Tigest Girma is good at keeping secrets. After all, it’s how the debut author of Immortal Dark started her writing career, quietly typing dystopian stories influenced by Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games and Veronica Roth’s Divergent on Wattpad during her teenage years.
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Jeff Drew
With the publication of his debut picture book, Alfie Explores A to Z: A Seek-and-Find Adventure, author-illustrator Jeff Drew found a way to partner career success with personal passion.
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Cai Tse
Author Cai Tse has found a way to combine her two biggest loves—Chinese lion dancing and art—into a career, which now includes competing globally on a lion dancing team and publishing her debut graphic novel, Lion Dancers.
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Jill Tew
How far is too far?” It’s a question many are asking themselves as technology continues its rapid expansion, and it’s the question at the core of Jill Tew’s YA science fiction debut, The Dividing Sky.
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Rachel Michelle Wilson
Rachel Michelle Wilson wants to hear your pee pants story. It’s just one of the ways she’s creating community around her debut book, How to Pee Your Pants: The Right Way, a how-to-style book in which a bespectacled owl deals with a telltale wet spot and social mortification.
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Tony Weaver Jr.
The author of middle grade graphic novel memoir Weirdo, illustrated by twin creators Jes and Cin Wibowo, had no intention of breaking into the traditional publishing biz. “I knew I wanted to create things,” Tony Weaver Jr. says of his youthful aspirations. “And I originally started with poetry.”
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