Lauren Simone Blogs

Olivia Lauren's Olivia Travels is a fun, rhythmic story about all the ways we travel by air, land, and sea. Because the John family loves to travel, we created this story and wanted to be intentional about girls especially to use different modes of transportation. When on vacation, we share our travel recommendations. In this blog, Dr. John and her sisters, Rose-Anne Uwague and Melanie Aiken visit Cartagena, Colombia. Here is a summary of our trip. Enjoy and leave a comment!

Happy Fourth of July! Here at Lauren Simone Publishing, we like to think we celebrate a little bit of this everyday with our desire to spread more diverse stories. With each purchase you make we are one book away from changing each other’s lives. And eventually changing our future.

Niquey, illustrator of Olivia Lauren’s Olivia Travels and A Boy Called Amari: Proskater, has been drawing since she was six years old, driven by her desire to improve. She has always loved art but saw drawing was something she saw as a challenge to overcome and eventually better.

On Thursday June 23rd, our very own Dr. John represented Lauren Simone Publishing House at the 2022 reSET Venture Showcase. Read to find out who won. 

Zachary Clarke one of our talented illustrators here at Lauren Simone was featured in Bubblah Magazine. Bubblah Magazine is an e-zine which seeks to educate, inspire, and celebrate children. Zachary’s art was featured on the cover of the December 2021 issue.  Zach grew to love animated movies, writing fiction, developing and designing fictional characters, and creating graphic novels. He also enjoys animation, cooking gluten-free foods, and caring for his pets. Zach, along with his older sister Simone-Anais Clarke, have illustrated over a dozen books including  Olivia Lauren’s Occupations A to Z, Olivia Lauren’s A Guide to Things We Wear, Disco Balls of the Universe, The...