About
Janyce Brawn is a retired K-12 Art, English as a Second Language and Spanish Teacher. She has illustrated for magazines and books for 29 years. When she isn’t writing or drawing, she likes to read, go boating on the nearby lake, or visit with family and friends.
She is the author and illustrator of the Tales of the Teleporting Topsider juvenile fantasy series, which includes David and the Drainosaurs, David and the Missing Troll, David and the Midnight Unicorn, David and the Foglinian Menace, and David in the Below Lands, A Tales of the Teleporting Topsider Coloring Book. Coming soon: the picture book, Hippo Hullabaloo, a story about bullying in the zoo. All are published by Dragonfly Publishing Inc., and available through Amazon or Barnes and Noble, eBook at Smashwords and Kobo and Kindle and at Apple.
Janyce Brawn has also presented workshops on Fantasy World Building, Creativity, and Writing for Children at the Pennwriter’s Area 1 Road Trip One Day Conference, The Greater Pittsburgh Book Festival, and at the St. Davids Writers’ Conference and at schools.
Featured Work
DAVID AND THE FOGLINIAN MENACE
When his mother buys an antique water fountain, twelve-year-old David Gonzales is drawn into another adventure down the drainpipes. Foglinians are stealing powerful crystals from the talking rabbits of Rabbitosha and attacking the bird people of Paz. Along the way, a set of living chess pieces help David battle magical cats, giant praying mantises (called smeersuckers), and a thundering triceratops. Can David save his friends from the menacing Foglinians without being stranded forever in the Below Lands?