Author/Illustrator/Photographer Kris Abel-Helwig's, I WISH MY WORDS TASTED BETTER recently won the 2020 SPARK Honor Award for excellence in non-traditional publishing for older readers, in the Novel category. "There were hundreds of entries to choose from, but the judges were especially impressed with I WISH MY WORDS TASTED BETTER. The professionalism and quality of the writing and art is an exceptional example of independent publishing."
Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, Kris wrote her first children's book, I love you I love you I love you I do. If you were a sock . . . then I'd be your shoe, while going through treatment and watching the devastation of 9.11. 2001. Words and pictures convey her desire to protect, nurture, grow roots and give wings to children. Thriving twenty years now, she's written, illustrated, and independently published six children's books and two stand-alone young adult novels, FADE TO BLACK & WHITE and award-winning, I WISH MY WORDS TASTED BETTER. A third novel, MY WINGS AREN'T READY TO FLY is nearing completion.
