After a full year of chasing illustrators with zero progress, I came up with a “brilliant” plan to make the pictures myself. It cost me another 8 months.

Halfway through writing Unstoppable Sammy, the words stopped. Weeks later, during a morning meditation, the rest of the story arrived in two magical hours.

Christmas Eve, 2021. A feeling hit out of nowhere: something wants to be written. The story of the night Unstoppable Sammy first showed up in my journal.