The Persephone & Brinley series is for the child with ADHD. Mazie's Side is for the sibling in the next chair. Same family, same honesty contract — a different seat at the table. Each title names one hard moment and hands the child a strategy she picks herself.
One picture book for each hard moment ADHD families actually live. Book 1 is first out the door; the rest are written and releasing one at a time as their art is finished.
It's Mazie's turn on the new tire swing. This is going to be the longest wait in history.
Persephone discovers the Popcorn Jobs — three things to do while waiting that turn the hardest minute into something she can actually handle.
waiting your turn
It's Mazie's turn on the new tire swing, and this is going to be the LONGEST WAIT IN HISTORY. Persephone discovers the Popcorn Jobs — three things to do while waiting that turn the hardest minute into something she can handle.
Coming soonwhen screen time ends
The screen has to go off, and “one more minute” never means one minute. Persephone learns to land the plane — a heads-up, a timer she can see, and a next thing already waiting — so turning it off stops being a fight.
Coming soonlosing the game
Losing floods Persephone fast and hot, and the urge is to flip the whole board. She finds the cooling breaths and the rematch — because losing earns you a new game, and the volcano always grumbles back next time.
Coming soongetting started
The job is right there, and Persephone’s engine just says NOPE. She shrinks the first step down to something tiny, races the song, and finds a pit crew — because “nope” doesn’t have to be the end.
Coming soonwhen a best friend is moving away
Persephone’s best friend Penny is moving, and the sadness arrives in waves that crash without warning. She learns the tears are the wave working — and makes something to hold instead of holding it all in.
Coming soonsaying goodbye
It’s the last day, and the goodbye is real. Persephone and Penny trade keepsakes — and Persephone learns she can say Penny’s name even when it stings, because remembering her is how you keep her.
Coming soonwhen your family is moving
We’re moving, and Persephone is NOT going. She walks the only house she’s ever known and says goodbye to each room — and finds the strings to everything she loves stretch instead of snap.
Coming soonmoving day and the first night
The new house is sensorially all wrong, and the first night is the hardest night there is. One familiar corner, unpacked first, and the same bedtime as always start to make the puzzle click — one piece at a time.
Coming soonthe new school
Walking in where everyone already knows each other is the loudest kind of invisible. Persephone practices one brave hello, looks for the other new-ish kid, and watches the map of a new place grow one step at a time.
Coming soonloving a new place and missing the old
Can Persephone like it here without betraying everything she misses? She keeps Penny close with video calls and discovers her heart has room for old places and new ones — both true at once.
Coming soonblurting and interrupting
The words fire before the brake, and the held thought really does vanish. Persephone finds the caught-bubble fist and a secret signal — because the fizz isn’t the problem, it just needs somewhere to go.
Coming soonthe racing bedtime brain
At lights-out, Persephone’s brain wakes all the way up. The idea jar catches the racing thoughts so they’re safe till morning — and the brain puppy finally rests over her heart instead of fetching all night.
Coming soongetting out the door
Mornings stack every hard thing under a real clock, and “hurry up” is not a step feet can do. Night Persephone helps Morning Persephone with a picture-path of cards — and the slippery minutes start getting caught.
Coming soonwhen plans change
The zoo is closed, and Plan A was laid track. Persephone grieves Plan A out loud, then builds Plan B as the engineer — keeping one piece of the old plan inside the new one, because it’s good in a different shape.
Coming soonCovers are landing as the art is finished — books showing a placeholder are written and on the way. Join the list to hear the moment each one is live.
A companion series told from Mazie's point of view — Persephone's little sister, the four-year-old everyone calls “the easy one.” For each moment Persephone has hers, there's a Mazie book that names what the same moment costs the sibling: the turn that gets swallowed, the rules that bend for her sister, the floor she learns to tiptoe on so nothing cracks. The feeling is always real. The antagonist is always the moment, never Persephone. And Mazie finds her own way through — with the help of her dolls, not a lesson from an adult.
Mazie’s turn on the tire swing dissolves into someone else’s big feeling. The resentment-and-guilt knot, named and loosened.
Mirrors “Waiting Is the Hardest Part”The night the rules go soft for Persephone and hard for Mazie — and what “fair” actually means.
Mirrors “One More Minute”Mazie plays soft so nothing cracks — until she learns the big feeling was never hers to prevent.
Mirrors “The Volcano and the Cheese”When helping is Mazie’s job all day, the helper hat comes off — by her choice — so her own thing can start.
Mirrors “The Engine That Said Nope”Four books written, art coming. Get notified →