COMING FOR CHRISTMAS 2026:
A Book Fair featuring: Christian Authors of the Pacific Northwest (CAPNW)!
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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
featuring
Christian Authors of the Pacific Northwest
What is this story about?
ONE POP-TART. ONE BET. A BLIZZARD OF CONSEQUENCES!
"Funny, heartfelt, and full of unexpected turns, this is a story about friendship, forgiveness, and the kind of courage that shows up when no one’s watching." — Kendy Pearson, Author
Thirteen-year-old Ray Larkin thought having twin baby brothers would be awesome. Turns out, they mostly cry, and Mom barely has time to look at him. To make things worse, his best friend Javier ditches him for the popular crowd. Ray’s solution? A Big Plan: buy the whole class Frappuccinos and pizza to win new friends.
An award-winning speaker, Annika has enjoyed weaving her experience (living between two cultures) into fiction for over sixteen years. In only three years, over forty of her freelance works have appeared in numerous publications. She is the author of the 2024 Cascade Award Winning MG Novel, I LIVED THROUGH A WIND CHILL ADVISORY;
the 2024 Cascade Award Runner Up YA Novel, QUALIFY;
and the 2022 Cascade Award Winning YA Novel, RED ROCK. Visit Sandra's website is at:
https://www.annikaklanderud.com/
If anything qualifies her to write Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction, it is the time she invests discovering what her twelve children and their friends enjoy reading.
She has a degree in Japanese studies, a seminary education, and she was the originator of the Author Spotlight at CalvaryMac (Calvary Chapel McMinnville). The Pacific Northwest was her home for twenty-two years before her recent relocation to Ohio. We miss you, Sandra / Annika!