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Michelle Worthington was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and currently lives in the Redland City. Since a very early age, Michelle has had a love for words and rhyme, and has always excelled at english and creative writing. Michelle has two boys who love to read. She has read them a bedtime story every night of their lives. They are her inspiration and motivation. She is an international award-winning author and businesswoman, and a real life book fairy. As Founder of Share Your Story Australia, she waves her wand to coach aspiring authors and illustrators all over the world achieve their dreams of publication. Whether she's a fairy, a mermaid, a pirate or an elf, Michelle celebrates empowering readers and storytellers to dream big. Veronica Montoya is a freelance illustrator from Spain. She studied Fine Arts, including Engraving and Drawing at the UPV (Polytechnic University of Valencia). This profession was ingrained in her by her father, who is an amateur painter. Since she graduated, she has built up a career illustrating children's books for publishing houses in different countries. She gathers inspiration from her childhood memories and nature, and she loves drawing every day in her little journal. She also enjoys walking her dog by the beach where she lives and has her little studio.
