Lollipop Lola, My First Children’s Book

Writing was the first artform I fell in love with, with drawing following behind. Writing a children’s book is the most sensical way to fuse the two artforms.

Growing up, reading was my escape.

I would crawl into the world of a book and stay there. I would get so lost in books I could finish 700+ page long novels by the time that I was in the third grade. Teachers would bring retired textbooks to help satsiate my thirst for learning. I could read at a high school level by third grade.

Being well read and very intuitive, I couldn’t help but notice that while there were some great books with characters like me, there was not nearly as much representation as other groups. I wanted to create the representation I felt I was lacking growing up and make her fun, colorful, and inquisitive like myself and my own daughter.

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