The Mommy Orphanage

About the Authors: Cheryl Wilder Krass and Emily Krass

Cheryl Wilder Krass is a graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication. For over 20 years, she has held a number of advertising and marketing positions managing a wide range of promotional assignments and print production projects; from simple flyers to complex catalogs and direct mail campaigns. When she chose to step away from the corporate world to spend more time at home with her family, she provided volunteer public relations services within her community. She also sat on the Board of Trustees for a local Charter School as its communications officer. After her hiatus from the corporate environment, she re-emerged in 2007 as an independent business owner with a Virtual Assistance practice called Equalibrium VA Services.

As a VA (Virtual Assistant), Cheryl provides remote administrative and marketing support for communications professionals and entrepreneurs. She specializes in her Author’s Assistant services where she helps authors write, publish and market their books.

In 2008 she founded Alexemi Publishing. Although the cornerstone of Alexemi was The Mommy Orphanage, the company is now growing as an independent micro publisher with other titles currently in production, and publishing services being developed. As Cheryl puts it, “my day job is virtual assistance but my passion is publishing.” She never planned to write a children’s book but when her daughter Emily created the concept for The Mommy Orphanage, everything changed. Working with Emily on The Mommy Orphanage was a wonderful project to kick off her writing and publishing pursuits: truly a project from the heart.

Emily Krass was born in the Guangdong Province of China in a city called Gaozhou. For the first nine months of her life she lived in the Gaozhou Social Welfare Institute, until 2002 when she was adopted by Cheryl and Louis Krass and brought home to her new family in the US. Emily was five years old when she envisioned The Mommy Orphanage. Cheryl loved the unique concept and just knew it needed to be shared. She worked with Emily to expand the story, and Cheryl then wrote the manuscript, secured the talents of illustrator Lauren Francis, and published the book through Alexemi. The official publication date for The Mommy Orphanage is June 19, 2008 to coincide with the sixth anniversary of Emily’s adoption.

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