Pellegrini, Antoinette: - Antoinette is an Author, Writing Mentor, Publisher, and Motivational Coach living in a leafy Melbourne suburb in Victoria, Australia. Antoinette is also a secondary school teacher, working as a teacher for several years before starting a corporate career. She left the corporate world in 2016 to follow her passion for writing and helping others find their voice and achieve their personal goals. She has raised two amazing young men as a single mother and overcame many hardships and challenges throughout her life. Antoinette has always been interested in the link between mind, body, and spirit and the critical part the mind plays in relation to overall health, well-being, and achievement of goals. It had been her dream for many years to write a children's book. "Sandcastles: A Story About Our Connected World" is about Bobbie, the sandcastle, and how he discovered that although he was different to the other sandcastles, he was connected to them all. The reader finds out our world is like that too. "Sandcastles" is based on the concepts in her first book, published in 2017, "Your Thoughts Matter: The Future You Are Creating Starts Now". This book contains 25 Reflections and Affirmations on connection and the power of positive thinking and conscious choice and is designed to empower and inspire the reader to create the life they would like to live. Antoinette also created an anthology series called "We Inspire Now", in which ordinary people share stories of their lives and how they have overcome challenges to follow their passion and live their truth. She has published three books in the series and is working on the fourth. She was very honoured that the three books in the series have all been nominated as finalists for the International Book Awards, at the 2019, 2021 and 2022 American Book Fests. As a writing mentor and independent publisher, through her business, We Inspire Now Books, she has helped people to make their dreams of being published authors a reality. She feels that her journey as an author and publisher has only just begun, and she is looking forward to experiencing every moment that is to come.www.antoinettepellegrini.com www.weinspirenowbooks.com