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Author Pledges Book Proceeds to Aid Detained Migrant Children Through Monarch Butterfly Story
A new bilingual children’s picture book pairs the story of a monarch butterfly’s migration with a pledge from its author to donate 10% of proceeds to organizations providing pro bono legal services to migrant children and families in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to a release distributed via PR.com.
"Bella’s Journey: The Migration of a Monarch Butterfly," written and illustrated by Viola Greene, was released on Amazon.com and is aimed at children ages four to ten, per the release. The book follows a documented monarch migration route from West Virginia to the oyamel fir forests of Michoacán, Mexico, and uses the journey as a frame for introducing Spanish vocabulary, presenting both literal and interpreted translations alongside the English text.
Greene said the donation pledge is meant to draw attention to conditions she says children face in ICE detention. "Children in ICE detention camps can’t wait. They are being denied healthy food, toys, and the opportunity to play and go to school," Greene said in the release, citing reports of worms in food, confiscation of crayons and drawing paper, and unverified accounts of sexual assault and denial of health services. The release does not name the organizations that would receive the donated funds.
Greene also drew a comparison between the monarch and another recent use of butterfly imagery, saying she intends the monarch to serve as a symbol for migrant children in the way blue butterflies have become associated with Jeffrey Epstein survivors. The release does not specify what portion of book revenue the 10% pledge applies to, or over what time period donations would be made. The book is available now on Amazon.com.
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Shonta Henderson has released "Shonta vs. Lawless," a memoir recounting her upbringing at 79th and Essex on Chicago’s South Side, an area she and others from the neighborhood call Terror Town. The book, published through Newman Springs Publishing, went on sale August 15 in paperback for $25.95.
The memoir follows Henderson’s early entanglement in what the book describes as gangster culture and her time in the criminal justice system, through to her present work as a spiritual coach. According to the book’s own description, the narrative is structured around a tension the title makes literal: a running conflict between "Shonta," and "Lawless," the persona attached to her years on the street, with the book framed as her account of reconciling the two.
Henderson founded Golden Life Spiritual Readings LLC in 2021, and according to the publisher, she drew upon both her coaching work and years of personal writing when creating the memoir. The book is categorized as biography and autobiography, and its publisher-supplied synopsis describes it as recounting what it calls unforgettable and terrifying events from her life.
"I wrote this book to show that no matter where you come from or what you’ve done, your story doesn’t have to end in darkness," Henderson said in a statement accompanying the release. "My journey from Terror Town to spiritual coaching proves that change is real, and I hope my truth inspires others to seek their own light."
"Shonta vs. Lawless" is available in paperback and through major e-book retailers, including Amazon, Google Play, Apple Books and Barnes & Noble.
Studio CarryOnHarry covers memoirs like this one because the trajectory they describe, from incarceration to coaching and public testimony, is its own small but recurring category in self-published nonfiction, and worth tracking as a genre in itself.
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The result, per the announcement, is a narrative told by a self-reflexive narrator moving through dream logic, comic misdirection, and cultural satire, populated by images like a philosophizing pig that turns into bacon and glass figures that take themselves apart. The publisher describes it as fiction that deliberately avoids the structures Lucas says he came to reject in contemporary literature.
Lucas’s path to the book runs through more than one life. He volunteered for the draft at eighteen and served in Vietnam, where he received a Combat Infantryman Badge and a Bronze Star. After returning home, he built parallel careers in music and writing, later graduating summa cum laude from Hobart and William Smith Colleges with the college’s creative writing award. He went on to spend twelve years teaching writing at the university level and worked as a psychotherapist in multiple states and in Native American communities, alongside work as a social justice activist.
"I wanted to trust the creative process itself," Lucas said in the announcement, "to let my subconscious speak without the tyranny of premeditated structure, and to discover what emerges when we surrender our critical control to the dream mind."
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