By Carmen Oliver
of The Booking Biz
“I don’t believe in barriers…just fly your plane.”
—Captain Nicole Malachowski from Tanya Lee Stone’s Almost Astronauts (Candlewick, 2009)
Over the last eleven years, I encountered a lot of barriers.
A lot of uncertainty.
But during that time, it afforded me the opportunity to really focus on studying children’s literature and the publishing industry.