Yay! It’s that time again!

I love being a part of the #debutcrew2024 📚

My debut picture book is coming in October 🤸🐦🤸

For now it’s huge congratulations to the next six of us who are now officially published authors 🤗

📚 Here are our APRIL releases ...

📕 SOME FAMILIES CHANGE
@jess.galatola @illustration_jennibarrand @ekbooksforkids
Families come in all shapes and sizes and sometimes families change. Change can be hard to understand, but even when families change, one thing never does —there are always people who love YOU! A timely and therapeutic resource to help families in navigating their emotional journey together, amidst the inevitable changes that life brings.

📙 PEEK-A-BOO LOTTIE
@lauraholloway_writes @tondocreative @fivemilebooks
Peek-a-Boo is played around the world in different languages and Lottie loves playing Peek-a-Boo most of all! Join Lottie as she makes friends around her multicultural neighbourhood and learns a few new words along the way.

📗 GROW BIG LITTLE SEED
@becnanayakkara @eyepicturedthis @hardiegrantkids @brightlightpublishing
Nina’s pumpkin seedling stops growing as her mother’s pregnancy ends early. Can Nina find the courage to plant another seed? A tender, hopeful picture book about miscarriage and pregnancy after loss.

📕 AUDREY’S GONE AWOL
@annie_dem_writer @ultimopress
On the cusp of turning 60 Audrey realises she has zero sense of self-worth and as no one else sees her either, she goes AWOL to rural France to reinvent herself. A witty coming-of-middle-age tale exploring womanhood, motherhood, life, death, marriage and betrayal.

📘 DOWNSTREAM
@annikajohanssonwriter @echo_publishing
Set in post-2022-flood northern NSW, empty nesters Rob and Sal find themselves homeless and, with no rentals available, reluctantly share a flat with another couple. A couple who couldn’t be more different, in a two-bed, one-bath flat with very thin walls! Surely they can stick it out? But life has bigger plans for them all and buried dreams, hidden secrets and feisty climate change debates emerge.

And lucky last 📙 MAYA”S DANCE

@helensigney @simonschusterau
Set in Poland in 1942 and based on an incredible true Holocaust story, 17 yr old Maya uses dance as an escape from the brutality of the Nazi labour camp. A powerful tale of survival, resilience and a love that spans decades.