Today, my team closed a hundred-million-dollar deal for Microsoft, where I’ve worked for more than a decade. Quite a few remain on site or are shipped out to serve bids elsewhere or to wait for resolution of more complicated matters. British mother Rosie Ayliffe thought her 21-year-old daughter, Mia, would be safe travelling around Australia on a gap year. As an accomplished Microsoft executive, Bruce Jackson handles billions of dollars of commerce as its associate general counsel while he plays a crucial role in the company’s corporate diversity efforts. I start Far From Home at the point where Emily and Lizzie are left behind by their dying mother, but I wanted their story to be different from Jim Jarvis’.

Far From Home is also published by HarperCollins as an unabridged audio book, read by Karina Fernandez. Throughout the story, we follow the bear up close, sensing her confusion, fear, and ultimate sorrow at being carried across the ocean and stowed away in the Tower of London. With diversity and inclusion high on the company agenda, those numbers have improved, and I’ve done my best to help the cause. We are cuffed and chained together again, only this time there are eight of us, led out of the basement jail and into a waiting van.She is also the author of the teen novels 'From Somalia, with love', 'Boy vs Girl', 'Black Sheep' and the award-winning 'Far from Home', a historical novel set in Zimbabwe. Reading Tariro's story was gut-wrenching, her home was taken from her along with those she loved dearly. My favorite moment of this story was definitely when the two girls figured out the truth about their mom and brother.

I’m sharing a look at studies (including a favorite of mine that you won’t find here on the blog) sketches (with a few procreate timelapses) linears, finals, proofs, and the cover that didn’t make it!Bruce Jackson provides a valuable example of a non-traditional pathway to success in a very traditional career path. There is one other occupant in mine, a man who appears to be in his early thirties, wearing a ragged T-shirt and jeans. My only complaint was that of the character Ian Watson, as much as I disliked the character, I would have liked some further insight into his reasonings.