A fast-paced middle-grade fantasy series, Rivin & The City Spinners’ Secret is perfect for readers who love wild adventures, quirky characters, and intriguing mysteries.
Imagination and cooperation isn’t just fun, it’s the key to everything.
Eleven-year-old Rivin never thought her dreams would lead her to another world—until one night, they did.
She and her friends wake up in Dinya, a world where everything is alive—right down to the mischievous outfits they're wearing!
As they explore, nature-loving Eva learns to speak to animals, history-buff Cano uncovers Dinya’s past through memory-storing jewelry, and competitive Rivin joins a high-stakes bountify battle—where the entire living city made of enormous woven trees, giant colorful mushroom pods, and beautiful silk bridges, can shift, grow, or attack!
But just as they start to grasp the magic of Dinya, it begins to mysteriously weaken. Crops wither. The city's woven trees weaken. Creatures fall silent. Suspicion falls on Rivin and her friends—after all, they come from a world built on non-living technology.
Are they being framed? Could rival bountify players be behind it? Is their very own living clothing working against them?
Rivin and her friends must solve the mystery before it's too late for Dinya!
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BA in Art
Graphic Design & Marketing California State University, Northridge
Cum Laude
I've worked on campaigns for major motion pictures from studios like Disney, Paramount, Warner Brothers, and DreamWorks
In the digital space, my first app was a quirky story writing game called Once Upon A Line developed in the world’s largest accelerator helping my co-creator and I finish as Top Graduates.
Most recently, as Senior UI/UX Designer & Art Director at Rebel Girls, my latest work, an app of 300+ real-life women's stories for girls 7-11, was featured in the Apple App Store over ten times, earned an Editor’s Choice distinction, and won a prestigious Apple Design Award.
What if what we’ve been told about both life and human nature was wrong?
The origin story of this series...
What if everything we’ve been told about human nature is wrong?
It's exhausting being human these days.
We're told our nature is greedy. We're told competition is the primary force governing our affairs. We're told that life is suffering.
Everywhere we look—in books, in media, even in fiction—humans are painted as destructive, selfish, a virus on the planet. We're destined to either exploit or destroy each other and our natural world.
If that weren't bad enough, we're told that nature itself is cruel and competitive.
For me, this began changing when I stumbled on several thinkers and researchers such as David Graeber, Rutger Bregman, Merlin Sheldrake whose work challenged this idea—books that reexamined human nature through history, science, and anthropology. And I came to a startling realization...
Here is my LinkedIn profile for design. But shhh, I haven't fully come out of the closet as a writer on it yet!
Over the years, I have accrued over 100K followers on Flipboard with interests spanning anthropology, biology, ecology, urbanism, psychology, engineering, etc. Check out my Flipboard Magazines!
As Senior UI/UX Designer & Art Director at Rebel Girls, my latest app, home to stories of 300+ real-life women for girls 7-11, won a prestigious Apple Design Award.
Before the world of Dinya, I wrote about topics in our world. Here are some links to those musings:
• Medium
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Rivin & The City Spinners’ Secret