Welcome to City Brick Books, standing tall and proud just blocks from the St. Louis Arch. It’s a place where stories live and characters come to life. You can begin by browsing the children’s book series. It transports readers from the Amazon cloud rainforest to the deepest black hole in space. And on the journey, the children get to learn the basics of writing. But that’s just the beginning. This house of brick and books includes The City Brick Memoir Series. In this series you blast off from a literary launching pad for a ride on a starship that crisscrosses St. Louis and beyond.
Your imagination will see sights of historic neighborhoods and tomorrow’s dreamscapes. Glide through all five books, gaining confidence in your writing skills, laughing with Maya, and trekking along the Stardust Kingdom Trail. Walk through the red-top door and meet the popular Big City Kids and the Disadvantaged Royalty families of North St. Louis. This place is historic, humorous, and educational. Best of all it’s fun for kids, teens, adults and everyone. Ride along and get your writing wings.
The Children’s Series includes six books, count em six books of stories and poems for children aged seven to seventeen. They introduce characters and themes of goodness and joy who are happy to meet readers of all ages. The trees and lush green lands of the rainforests along with the animals and monarch butterflies are thoroughly researched and scientifically accurate. They populate the Green Music Box of the world.
The Stardust Series includes three books, count em three books tracing the development of a friendly Stargirl who brings the messages of the importance of stardust in human life. She crossed over from the children’s book to a play and a novella. She’s the real deal.
The City Brick Memoir Series is six books, count em six books and growing. It follows the life of Myay from her curious childhood to adulthood when she became a writer and teacher of writing. Myay and her older self, Iris, are characters who depict certain phases of the writer’s life. Can you guess who it is? Well, it’s the same Star Girl in disguise who invites you to read…
The Rest of the Stories: her daily log, R&R, Rest and Re-creation for the Working Spirit, her legacy album, The Book of Sweets, her book of poetry, Yours Truly, her Self-help publication, The Road To Somebody and her contributions to St. Louis literature like Rolling Down the River, Where Rivers Meet, Love Letters to St. Louis, and a Midwinter Knight’s Dream.
Pictures are worth a thousand stardust words so I’m including some here. Stay tuned!