Brittney Roberts lives in the ceaselessly rainy half of Washington State with her husband and guild of happy little knights (four of the most passionately rambunctious, frighteningly brave, endlessly chatty boys you’ve ever met). And when she’s not preventing one of them from impaling themselves with something sharp, preparing them to be functioning people in the world, or attending their weekly taekwondo classes, she’s trying to squeeze in time to transfer all the words and pictures stuck in her head onto paper. It was the combination of a waltz through a dimly lit forest and her toddler’s demand for yet another new story that birthed the characters of Shiloh and Jonah, the beautiful (sunny) land of Mairia, all the scary and wonderful creatures that inhabit said land, and the story that knits them all together. Does it matter that she has completed triathlons, recorded an awful CD out of high school, or can do “live long and prosper” with her toes? No. What matters is where you find glimpses of yourself somewhere in her story, be it in a fierce competitor, a person content with the slow life, a mistake maker, or a forgiver. Read and enjoy.
