Follow more authors and kids in our Vegas Kids Zone Spotlight series, which includes a tween CEO, a Make-a-Wish ambassador who battles Cystic Fibrosis and local kids who make their community better with their actions. It’s part of the Teen Career Tips series where local professionals share advice for kids who want to work in their field, share obstacles they encountered and how they overcame them. Entrepreneurship can help kids prepare for the future, gain confidence and skills.
Local authors often bring unique perspectives and experiences that can offer a fresh and authentic voice to the literary world. Their works can reflect the cultural, social, and historical nuances of their communities, providing readers with a deeper understanding of local cultures and issues.
When you buy books from local authors or attend their events, you help generate income for writers, publishers, and bookstores in your community. Check the VKZ Events Calendar for author book signings! Just search “author” in the tool bar to find a list of local authors and their events.
Engaging with local authors and their works can create a sense of community and connection and gives us an opportunity for readers to meet and interact with writers, fostering a deeper appreciation for literature and storytelling.
Las Vegas Authors Teens and Kids
Teen Author Angelina Agasi
Angelina Agasi is a teen author who has a passion for writing children’s stories while bringing light to God’s word. She has a goal of becoming a bestselling author by the age of twenty. She enjoys writing, reading, painting, and dancing. Angelina also loves learning about animals. She is the author of three books included in the Paws of Love: Children’s Series and a fourth book is currently in the works.
“Paws of Love: Tortoises” Coming This Year!
Traveling Toddler
From a young age, a very young age, Justyn Boumahhas had ambition and an infectious smile. At the age of 6, he has been to 4 continents, 7 countries, and over 15 cities in 12 months. His family helped him create The Traveling Toddler to support his many interests, from author to baker and philanthropist.
He has written three books about his interests, from a memorable birthday bash to his recent travels. The Traveling Toddler Goes to Monaco, which in 2019 won the Gold Indie award, as well as The Traveling Toddler goes to the Dominican Republic and The Birthday Bash and a coloring book!
Las Vegas Authors
Veteran and Author Torthell Robinson
Local Author Daniel Pasternack
“Writing a book was always a goal of mine. Even in elementary school, I wrote little books and had them bound (and I still have several of them to this day) and would read them to my classmates. I always liked reading about sports and one of my favorite books as a kid was “Baseball Anecdotes”. When Covid hit, I had a lot of extra time on my hands, teaching from home only a few hours a week and with only one child at the time, I was finally able to dedicate some time to writing. But the actual origins of the book “You’re Not Welcome Here” come from a post I made on LinkedIn. Someone had posted something about racial demographics in baseball and I wrote a correction of their post. About a day later, I had a private message from Wilmer Aaron (Hank Aaron’s cousin) telling me that he loved the way I wrote about the topic and wanted to share his story with me. After speaking with him several times, I decided that I had to share his story. I began writing about him and realized that to make a complete book that it would be better with other people’s stories too. I began to contact various baseball players about getting their experiences with discrimination in baseball written down too. From that point, it became an easy process to finish the book. I then decided to go the self-publishing route due to the niche nature of the book and spent about two months designing and formatting it for sale. Currently I am working on multiple books at once. A children’s chapter book about girls who play ice hockey and another sports related book, both are about halfway complete at the moment.”
From Amazon, “You have heard about Hank Aaron, but what about his cousin Wilmer? Why did Wilmer, an elite second baseman, never make the Major Leagues despite a strong pedigree and excellent performance throughout his Minor League career? In this book, we explore the careers of various people involved in baseball who have struggled due to their race, socio-economic background, sexuality or gender.”
Local Author Robin Jay
Longtime local author Robin Jay spent more than 20 years writing nonfiction and producing inspirational films, collectively known as “The KEY Movies.” She recently delved into the realm of fiction with “Sunny’s Secrets,” a “mystical medical thriller (that) delivers a thought-provoking story about switching lives that will resonate with fans of magic, medicine, the healing arts, mind/body/spirit, and metaphysics. Sunny is a nurse from a military family who suddenly finds herself immersed in a new world of death and survival. When tragedy strikes, she finds herself crossing lines she never knew existed.”
Her first book, “The Art of the Business Lunch,” became a best seller within its first year.