Nikhil Prabala's debut queer romantasy, The Duchess of Kokora, was released August of 2024 and his audiobook, narrated by Bridgerton's Adjoa Andoh, was released early this year. (Check out his feature with Shondaland!)

Nikhil drew from his experience as a Dungeon Master in Dungeons and Dragons to create an immersive fantasy world, with a unique magic system and refreshing take on marriage games, and he has been praised for his realistically flawed characters.

Fatima Alabi was not much of a reader growing up, but that was until she came across te trilogy by E.L. James titled "Fifty Shades of Grey," at a time when she needed an escape from reality. At the time she was 19 years old and homeless, secretely squatting at the office building where she interned. She became completely wrapped up in the love story between the characeres, reading all three novels from the series in under a week. After that experience, a new ambition grew inside her and that was the desire to write a novel just as capticating that would turn a non-reader like she once was into the page-turner that she became, and to also help anyone going through a difficult phase in life escaspe from their reality by imersing themselves in her stories.

Sheryl Bass holds a master's degree in social work and has studied child development. SHe uses these insights to ingotm her picture book writing. Bass is a member of The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and Children's Book Insider (CBI). SHe has had personal essays published in two books, Lost Souls: Found! Inspiring Stories About Chihuahuas (Kyla Duffy and Lowrey Mumford) and Second-Chance Dogs:L True Stories of the Dogs We Rescue and the Dogs WHo Rescue Us (ed. Callie Smith Grant). Bass also holds a master's degree in journalism and is currently working in public relations. Her goal in creating Be-Kind Publishing is to produce lighthearted rhyming stories with gentle themes of teamwork and friendship. Bass resides just outside of Chicago, IL with her husband and two terriers.