Brooke Vitale is a children's book editor, author, and proud founder of Charge Mommy Books. Over the course of her 15+ years at top New York publishers, Brooke Vitale has edited thousands of books, including best-selling titles Hide-and-Hug Olaf and Olaf’s Night Before Christmas. Today, Brooke works as a freelance children’s book editor and runs brookevitale.com, a website dedicated to helping aspiring authors navigate the publishing and self-publishing industry. Since beginning her freelance career, Brooke has helped more than 1,000 authors achieve their dream of publishing a book.
But Brooke is also a prolific writer in her own right. She has worked with top children’s book publishers including Penguin Random House, Scholastic, HarperCollins, and Disney Book Group to publish more than a hundred books, including The Magic Is in You, The Mandalorian: A Clan of Two, Goonies: An Illustrated Classic. All told, Brooke’s books have sold over 500,000 copies and climbing.
Brooke lives in Connecticut. When she is not writing or editing she can be found playing Charge Mommy in the backyard with her two young sons.
Marisa Ware, MSEd, is a LETRS, Top Ten Tools, and Orton-Gillingham-trained reading specialist and executive function coach. She also creates educational resources for teachers, parents, and homeschooling families. Marisa received her BA in behavioral science with a minor in English. While teaching full-time in the classroom, she went on to earn her Master’s in Education, and has devoted the past 10+ years of her career to literacy education. Marisa currently works privately in one-on-one settings with elementary and middle school students. She blogs about literacy education at MW LITERACY®. Residing in Connecticut, Marisa lives with her husband, two children, and lots of books and greenery.
Casey Harrison is the founder of The Dyslexia Classroom and Wimberley Dyslexia and Learning Center. She is a certified academic language therapist (ALTA), a licensed dyslexia therapist (TX, ALTA), a certified Structured Literacy dyslexia specialist (IDA), and a qualified teacher with over 27 years of experience.
Casey serves as Vice President of Outreach on the National Executive Board of the Academic Language Therapy Association. Harrison also cohosts the Together in Literacy podcast and is the author of the book, Teaching Beyond the Diagnosis: Empowering Students with Dyslexia.
Harrison resides in Texas with her husband, three daughters, and numerous animals.
Abhi Nene has a background in graphic
design and traditional animation, with over 24 years of experience in animation
design and production. In recent years, he has been focusing on digital
illustration and children’s book art. He has illustrated a few books and enjoys
bringing stories to life through expressive characters and imaginative scenes,
while continuing to explore the craft of children’s storytelling through
illustration.
