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The Very Best You: For Young Warriors of Rare Diseases and Abilities
Constantine is a little bunny who’s beginning to see big differences… and comparisons can be scary. But with his mother’s loving words and by meeting animals in his Greek island community, he realizes everyone’s different, rare, and wonderful in their own way — and that’s both mesmerizing and inspirational.
The Very Best You exposes, normalizes, and celebrates the challenges, courage, and uniqueness of rare disease and/or differently abled warriors in an evocative and charming narrative for families. Inspired by the author’s experience with her son’s congenital hyperinsulinism diagnosis, The Very Best You spreads love and hope with heartwarming messages and inclusive themes. It serves as a valuable stepping stone to important conversations, and as a reminder of how courage, kindness, and hope.
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I Love You, Grandma & Grandpa
A loving dedication to all the grandmas and grandpas who make the world a more humane, authentic, and beautiful place for their grandchildren.
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The Wake Up
What if you could see the angelic or demonic manifestations of people’s characters in mirrors? And what if, in your world, this gift was fatal?
Since early childhood, Lexi has repressed the ability to See. For most of her life, and from most people who know her, this is a secret. Raised by a family of mirror-makers, glass-blowers, and wolves, Lexi trains herself to See selectively, plagued by her otherness. She comes of age when the nation’s leader bans man-made reflective surfaces, plunging the nation into a dystopia where government agencies annihilate families like Lexi’s and redraw lines of normalcy, tradition, and trust. As her family breaks apart, Lexi falls for a man whose secrets run deeper than hers. Betrayal and deceit ignite dangerous consequences in a world of blurring realities. Caught up in a battle as old as time itself, the last mirror-maker must choose between the safety of compliance and the lethal truth that could rouse her world from darkness.
THE WAKE UP is a modern parable about love, truth, and self-discovery. It examines how our choices determine the manner in which we live before we die, and how we stop fearing the monsters beneath the bed once we discover them within us.
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The Art of War: A Novel
Twin siblings Kallypso and Gabriel grow up in the lush cradle of Mythaki, an idyllic Greek island wrought of Mediterranean sun and sea. Their innocence is shattered by the outbreak of a war which flings Gabriel to distant battlefields and shackles Kallypso to a deteriorating homefront as Italian soldiers apologetically invade their island.
Ravaged by the twisted specter of Hitler’s ambition, Greece’s seas run red. Germany’s occupation plunges Mythaki into a dystopia of chaos and brutality. Despite the darkness, human nature retaliates with unexpected kindnesses and forbidden love. Kallypso and Gabriel discover that people must sometimes make their own miracles.
War entwines the fates of a Nazi ridiculed for his conscience, an iconographer haunted by her artistry, an officer driven by his madness, and a rebel soldier fighting to return home. There are people who bring darkness… and people who spread light.
My name is Angela…
and I’m a Greek-American storyteller, novelist, and ghostwriter with an M.F.A. from GMU. I’ve ghostwritten over 45 books (including Amazon bestsellers) within the genres of memoir, business, leadership, political science, health, self-help, psychology, and fiction.
Then, one day, I became a mom. And then, quite suddenly, I also become obsessed with writing and illustrating children’s books. Usually with a baby by my side or a toddler on my lap. It makes it approximately 300 times harder than it would be otherwise, I think. The revisions are endless and the sleep deprivation is real. But I love my little cookie monsters to pieces, and without them, there’d be no such inspiration and a lot less love in my world.
B.C. (Before Children), I wrote The Art of War: a Novel, inspired by my grandparents’ ordeals during WWII (named as one of The National Herald’s Top Picks of 2017), and The Wake Up (recipient of the Readers’ Favorite Book Award for Supernatural Fiction; Bronze, 2020). A.C., I wrote I Love You, Grandma & Grandpa (also available in Greek) and The Very Best You. I’ve also published a variety of short stories, including Scales, and am working on a collection of deliciously dark fractured fairytales (yep, I’m obssessed with those, too). To quote John Steinbeck, I still want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in people’s heads.
I love dancing, reading, painting, outdoor cinemas, authentic people, reunions, and laughing until my belly hurts. I prefer my milk with coffee. And someday I’ll get a full night’s sleep again.