Picture books for weird little rebels

Parker Sharkman is Super Weird

Parker Sharkman has zero shark instincts, zero shark friends, and one super-secret peculiar passion he will only tell you about if you PROMISE not to tell anyone.
Complete. Professionally edited.

Gail Whalia is Such a Bossy Pants

Her friends call her bossy, but they don’t know what they’re talking about…
The second book in the proposed Untitled Ocean series.
If Book 1 (Parker Sharkman is Super Weird), is not picked up in spring 2025, you can expect Gail Whalia to be self-published in late Summer 2025.

Dolores Seahorace is Much Too Shy

Dolores Seahorace will be coming to life fall of 2025. Check back for more updates on her adventures, or sign up for updates!
In planning. Expected manuscript completion summer 2025.

Other works in progress

My First Garden Sucked, So Yours Doesn’t Have To - Non-Fiction

In 2024, writer & former marketer Jodie Hewson embarked on a mission: to grow a thriving garden. Overwhelmed by billions of books, pages of reading, and the grouchy gardening elite, her first garden sucked a$$.
But she gained one important lesson: the realization that most gardening authors, aren’t writers or teachers.
They’re… gardeners.
Set out to make 2025 a more bountiful year, Jodie has spent months diving into the top gardening books of the industry. She’ll spend the year testing their methods.
Then craft the simplest, easiest paths to abundant organic garden that anyone can follow, in any yard.
My First Garden Sucked, So Yours Doesn’t Have To will help readers:
- Learn the most important decisions you need to make for a low-effort, easy AF garden.
- Get simple, straight-to-the point garden plans with the best plant choices for your needs.
- Build healthy rich abundant soil easily.
- Trouble shoot most garden problems.
- Access simple hacks for your healthiest, happiest plants
- And more!
Like Four Hour Work Week but for your first garden, this quick resource is designed to onboard anyone who has ever dreamed of growing their own food - without wasting money, time, and a season of growing to do it.
Currently in research and documentation phase.
Expected manuscript completion: End of 2025.

Worthless - Upmarket

When a millennial power couple lose everything, they move back in with their parents as they prepare for a new baby.
A multi-generational story unpacking the hereditary nature of self-worth, and how you can’t outrun the past unless you learn to heal it.

Based on a true story.
Early stages. Expected completion, Spring 2026.

Wizard Lizard and the Broken Spells

Wizard Lizard is selling spells to fund his dream turret renovation.
Unfortunately giving everyone exactly what they want is proving to be more problematic than he thought…
Manuscript complete.

Untitled Middle Grade

A young teen is forced to move to a remote village in BC, where she discovers an enchanted world, and a boy who needs her help to protect it.
Early stages. Expected completion, Fall 2026.