Author of the forthcoming THE LEGEND OF LEO Monica Acker’s PIRATE BABY, in which a captain takes whatever she fancies and never gives a single thing in return—until she fishes a houseplant from the sea and reluctantly tends to it, allowing them both to grow, illustrated by Susana Soto, to Michael Green at Marble Press, in a nice deal, for publication in fall 2026, by Kaitlyn Sanchez at Bradford Literary Agency for the author, and by Kate Webber at Good Illustration for the illustrator (world).