The Rules of a Little Boss shares positive messages to help children gain and improve their self-esteem. What lessons were important for you to share in this book?

The most important thing to me was the being kissed by the suns brightest rays. If I was younger I would’ve taken that very nicely considering I didn’t like the color of my skin so my hope is that children of color take that to heart.

In the book you state that readers ‘must be willing to do the work’. What is one way children can implement what they learned in your book?

By not giving into peer pressure and by consistently telling themselves not to they’ll learn stand apart from the crowd.

The art in the book is wonderful and bright. What was the art collaboration process like with illustrator Arsalan Khalid?

He really understood what the message that I wanted to share in the illustrations. He went the extra mile to make sure that the art matched to give a good visual representation of my words.

Do you have plans to write more children’s books?

I may create a series out of them under the umbrella of The Rules of a Big Boss: A book of self-love. They will be more fictional if I do.

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