The Snugglekins Series — Character Spotlight
Maggie Magpie is very good at belonging.
With Joey, she is quick and bright. With Kobe, she is softer, quieter. With Briar, she moves gently, the way you move around something that startles easily. She reads every room and becomes what it needs. She has been doing it so long that she is not always sure which version is the real one.
Nobody notices.
Nobody ever does.
This is not a complaint. Maggie is genuinely good at this. She laughs at exactly the right moments, asks exactly the right questions and leaves every conversation having given exactly what was needed. She is, by any measure, extraordinarily skilled in the social world.
It is also, by any measure, exhausting.
Maggie is a charcoal-black and cream magpie with silvery-blue stitching along her wings. She carries a patchwork satchel and wears a teal scarf that trails behind her when she flies. Her eyes are wide and bright and always, always reading the room.
But sometimes — when nobody is watching — she slips away from the edges of a gathering and opens her wings and lifts.
Up here, nobody needs anything from her.
Up here, she is just Maggie.
Her story is called Maggie Magpie and the Light in the High Places.
It is about a spider’s web in the morning light. About what happens when someone sees you being completely, unguardedly yourself, and simply sits beside you and doesn’t make anything of it.
It is the first book in the Snugglekins series.
The Snugglekins Series — coming soon from Lit Wick Press.
Safe. Loved. Heard. Enough.
