Publisher

Theresa D. Berger was born with a pencil in one hand and a notepad in the other. She was a born writer. As a very young child, she and her mother read children’s books together, sitting in her mother’s living room armchair. Theresa would critique the books, suggesting story plot changes. At the age of five years old, she took sheets of paper and stapled them together down the left side. She then took a pen and titled her story “Theresa’s I Am Book.” She drew all the illustrations of her character based on herself getting up from bed, going to school, coming home from school, etc. She was very proud of this little book and gave it to her mother as a surprise gift. Her mother saved that book for Theresa’s entire childhood. When Theresa turned twenty-five, her mother gave her back the book. But her reaction was not what her mother had expected. Theresa tore the book in half and threw it in the garbage!
“I’ll never be an author!” Theresa exclaimed as she stormed out of the room. Unbeknownst to her, Theresa’s mother salvaged the torn book from the garbage and taped it back together again. She proceeded to hide it from her for years to come. 
In 2011, Theresa published her first real book titled, “Me and My Boy, Skippy” through the book publishing company she had formed earlier that year. She rushed over to her mother’s house to show her the book. Her mother replied, “I have something for you.” She went into her bedroom dresser drawer and returned with “Theresa’s I Am Book” that Theresa had written almost thirty-five years earlier. 
“You saved it?” Theresa was astonished and ecstatic. “My dream of becoming a published author has come true,” was her reply to her mother. By Theresa forming Sunsational Publishing, LLC, not only was she able to accomplish her own book publishing goals but the book publishing goals of her aspiring authors.    
Currently, she staffs a full-time editor, a typist, several illustrators, and a book designer. However, she will never forget “Theresa’s I Am Book.” It symbolizes her dedication to becoming the author and publisher she is today. 
Editor

Amy Shook likes things to be a certain way, specifically grammatically correct. No one today knows
precisely how she procured such proclivity regarding the placement of words and punctuation with such proper precision. Still, this prowess is a point in which she takes enormous pride. Occasionally, a bit too much pride, unintentionally ostracizing those who do not believe a dangling participle or a misspelled word could possibly damage their reputation. Fortunately, Amy’s classrooms of elementary and middle school readers and writers have provided a willing audience upon whom she could pass her literary knowledge and expertise.

Today, as an editor (both developmental and copy) and proofreader, Amy employs a strategy that has met with great success both in and out of the classroom – Glows and Grows. She sees herself as an objective and necessary partner in the writing process. With deep respect for everyone who shows the courage to pick up a pencil and commit their inner thoughts to paper, Amy shares Glows – those things an author has done well to convey their meaning and Grows – suggestions on how to make the written piece even more powerful and accessible. While it is near impossible to expect to publish every piece with absolute perfection, the goal is to collaborate to create written work that is as close to perfect as possible. Amy holds a BA in History and an MEd in Educational Leadership.
Graphic Artist and Illustrator

Arlene Soto is a Hispanic American (yes, she’s a fluent Spanish speaker), owner and production artists (illustrator, formatter, graphic, and web designer) of Intricate Designs, based in Denver, CO.
She has an extensive background in Fine Art, an AA in Architecture (Miami Dade College), and a BFA in Sustainable Interior Design (RMCAD). Needless to say, art and design are well engrained in her being.
She is also a homeschooling mother of three feisty girls, two dogs, one chubby cat, chickens, and a bunch of plants.
She has been happily working with authors to bring their stories to life through art and design. She aims to focus her portfolio on projects that center on diversity, inclusivity and anything that sparks curiosity. She's intuitive and passionate about each project that comes her way and always happy to help!
Graphic Designer & Illustrator

Red Maylon, aka Pula Draws on social media, was born in the Philippines and grew up in Norway. She is currently residing in the United Kingdom, where she loves creating narrative illustrations.

Red is known for her imaginative stories and expressive art. In addition to creating picture books, she is fluent in using Adobe Creative suites, which helps her design book covers, draw comics, and layout and format novel books.

Due to her living in different countries while growing up, she became multilingual. She is able to speak and write in English, Norwegian, Tagalog, and Japanese.

Some of the books she illustrated can be found on Amazon. 
For more information, visit www.redmaylon.com.
Illustrator

Winona Kieslich (@winonaki) is a self taught illustrator, born in Germany and grew up on a small Island in Italy, Grado to be exact. Growing up in a country where no one spoke her language, drawing was something everyone could understand. So she started very early to be artistic. 

She came back to Germany to study Primary School Education, with English as her main subject. She really wanted to study to become an art teacher, but ended up with English linguistics. The master of Education opened up an amazing internship in Sydney, Australia. Finding herself again in a new country unlocked her artistic spirit. Inspired by the freedom and lifestyle, she’s been traveling around the country for the past 3 years always with her iPad in her hand. 

She really likes drawing original characters and creating a little world for them. She started with traditional, acrylic and watercolor artwork and moved to digital art, since there is not much space for art supplies in her travel car. 

You can find her art on social media under www.instagram.com/winonaki.
Illustrator

Santhya Shenbagam R. is a self taught illustrator, born and brought up in Tamilnadu, India. She grew up in a small village in India which hugely influenced her in becoming an artist.

Santhya worked as a software Engineer for 6 years, before her little one was born. While reading children's books to her daughter, she fell in love with the artwork in them. She loved the freedom of expressing oneself and creating worlds through art. She relentlessly learnt and pursued illustration. She has been working on illustrating and designing children's books for the past 4 years now. 

She can speak Tamil and Hindi languages.

Her artwork is a mix of traditional and digital mediums. She loves learning and exploring new techniques for her work. 
Illustrator

She is Chandrani Das from India. She is an illustrator and a drawing artist specialized on children book illustrations, digital paintings, background designings, character illustrations, game prop illustrations, vector art of portraits as well as landscapes. She has an experience of more than 8 years in this designing and illustration industry. She is an expert on Adobe Photoshop, Adobe illustrator and Adobe Indesign. She can also make hand drawn illustrations using different medium like watercolor, pen, colored pencil, Acrylic colors, etc. Being an expert on various designing skills and having good knowledge of colors she is able to work on different kind of design from creative magazines, logo designing to creative web page designing.

She has a passion of drawing since her childhood and she loves to watch cartoons as well. Though never got a chance to make drawings as her main study. But she never stopped drawing. So, gradually she became expert in realistic drawings too. After mastering in Sanskrit language from Burdwan University, she final got a chance to choose her career. So, she completed diploma course on Multimedia from Burdwan Brainware. There she learned about the softwares that are used for digital drawings and for cartoon makings. Since 2014, she took her art knowledge as her career as a graphic artist and Illustrator.
Illustrator

Greg Peters is a professional character animation artist who claims that he was born with a pencil in his hand. He began drawing his favorite TV characters when  he was two years old. “I remember telling people that I was going to draw cartoons when I grow up”, he recalls.  In 1990 Greg graduated from the prestigious California Institute of the Arts with a BFA degree in Character Animation.  He has a long list of high credentials beginning with Hanna-Barbera Productions the studio who's cartoons  he grew up closely with. While at H-B, he worked on such shows as “ Tom and Jerry Kids”, “The Adventures of Don Coyote “, “ Fish Police”as well as animation on The Jetsons and The Flintstones Commercials.. He later went on to work for almost all the major studios including Sega of America where he animated on video games like Disney’s “ Bonkers” and more. He then moved over to Walt Disney Animation where he worked as a Character Layout Artist on “The Lion King -Timon and Pumbaa” and as a Storyboard artist on “Mickey’s Mouseworks”, “Mickey’s House of Mouse” and more. He worked as a freelance artist for Warner Brothers on “ Tazmania before moving in house.  Perhaps it is his work on the Waward winning ”Animaniacs” and “Pinky and the Brain”  series that he is best known for. Greg was busy creating character designs for both shows Also notable is his work at Sony/Imageworks where he worked as a Character Designer on the Dilbert TV series. He was instrumental in helping to get a studio in Wisconsin up and running as well as animate on that studio’s projects. This was followed by his move to Texas where he works as a freelance artist and caricaturist including at several local events as well as nationwide at various comic cons. Currently he is working on a variety of projects including being the illustrator on an upcoming comic book series as well as a children’s book.

You can find his art on social media under @gregpeterswacool.
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