Right now we are in the midst of a presidential campaign year, between Democrat Joseph R. Biden and Republican Donald J. Trump (the incumbent). Did you know Lori Leak has a presidential connection?
February is Black History Month in the USA and of course this makes me very proud to have written Lori Leak Travels to Paris and Lori Leak Travels to Copenhagen. Books featuring children with Black and brown skin shows the diversity of…
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Talking with The Little Mermaid and fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen, exploring the downtown amusement park Tivoli, and swimming with Santa Clauses in the sea across from Sweden. This and more happens in the latest adventure of Lori Leak, titled Lori…
According to the Children’s Cooperative Book Center, out of more than 3,000 children’s books reviewed in 2016 only eight percent featured African American characters; seven percent featured Asian-Pacific Americans, less than five percent featured LatinX American characters and just one percent featured…
As many know, I am, as an entrepreneur, not only a children’s book author, novelist, world traveler, golfer, guitarist and life strategist. I am an ordained minister. As such, in fitting with my professional calling, I often wear clergy vestments. My clergy…
Lori Leak’s second adventure, this time in Copenhagen, is being released in November 2018! The second printing of Lori Leak Travels to Paris” is also being released! If you would like to give a child in your life (or yourself) double the…
Thank you all for making Lori Leak’s second year at the San Diego Festival of Books an even more wonderful time than 2017. The crowd at Liberty Station was bigger than last year and I was invited to do some storytelling about…
Lori Leak is coming to San Diego for the second year in a row, at the San Diego Union Tribune Festival of Books! I will be in The Children’s Pavilion, reading an excerpt from the upcoming book “Lori Leak Travels to Copenhagen”…
The inaugural San Diego Festival of Books is taking place on Saturday, August 26, 2017 at Liberty Station — and Barrett Clemmensen Powell, the author of LORI LEAK TRAVELS TO PARIS is an invited author in the Children’s Pavilion. The panel will…