Once upon a time, not so long ago, a girl grew up in a fantasy world.
A world where tree branches wrote lines of ink against the setting sun and and every rain drop told a story of the places it had traveled.
A world where the crack in the pavement was a canyon that could only be crossed by use of a whispered spell.
A world where everyone had a magic power.
But no one else saw it.
She wants you to see it.
At nine years old, teen author Israfel Shae ran out of good books to read. Torn between fantasy all plot and no soul, and books written hundreds of years ago, she dubbed herself "The Betweener" and set out to write fiction so alive, it brings the fantasy out of the ordinary. Now her dream is to support Betweeners like her, who wonder "Are there any good books left?", and inspire them to find the fantasy inside them.
Israfel lives in the wilds of Arkansas with her two little brothers, her mom, and her herd of cats. When she is not staring out the window, removing cats from on top of keyboards, and searching for stray pens in the couch cushions, she is reading classics, wandering through the woods, or preparing for the day books are great again.
His name is Pip Kit, also known as Patchwork Pip, and he lives the hard life with too many snuggles and too few treats. His duties as an Editor in Chief are napping (preferably on top of keyboards) and tending to his enormous size via fish. On rare occasions he feels so inclined to leave the much-dreaded Pawprint of Disapproval on his author's artwork.
He has no comments to make on his author's mission, and is not even impressed at being on a very obviously famous author's website. Afterall, everyone already knows that his enormous intellect is the reason the sun remembers to shine.
