The Adventures of LadyCakes: Kindness is Sweet

Rosie, the main character discovers her favorite after school bakery is closed. After returning a second time, Rosie thinks of a way to create and share kindness with the owner of the bakery to make her feel better. After coming up with a great idea, she begins to create. Through failures, she overcomes and succeeds in sharing her creation with the bakery owner. The Adventures of LadyCakes is sure to teach and motivate young readers how to think of situations and obstacles differently and find solutions to their everyday problems. This sweet series will be a staple at home or in the classroom.

Bess M Charles is an award-winning professional cake artist turned Children's Author. Bess has been named SWFL Top 40 Under 40 Business Professional, Recipient of the Elaine G McLaughlin Hospitality Award, SWFL Distinguished Entrepreneur Award nominee, Board Member of the Mighty Mikey Foundation, amongst being a local SWFL Community Volunteer and Speaker. Bess loves to speak about her passion and humble beginnings to anyone that will listen. It always has been a dream of hers to write a children's book and mentor the next generation of successful women! In 2019, that dream has come true with her first Children's Book, The Adventures of LadyCakes; Kindness is Sweet. Bess was born in NJ and raised in Upstate NY, where she graduated from Sherburne-Earlville Central School and went off to Le Moyne College, in Syracuse, NY. Bess studied with a major in Criminology with a minor in Psychology. Prior to completing her degree Bess craved finding a more creative and exciting career, so she decided to move in another direction. After leaving college, Bess worked as a waitress at a local Italian Restaurant where she met her husband Jeff, the then pizza guy. From Upstate NY the young couple moved to Cape Coral, FL where Bess worked in corporate America before finding her true passion in cakes. Bess and her husband have two children -Tyler and Katelyne. Creating Tyler and Katelyne's first birthday cakes really solidified the love Bess has for creating beautiful cakes and the passion continued to grow with each creation. After some convincing, Jeff, joined the dream and LadyCakes Bakery opened their first location in 2014. Since LadyCakes has opened, the bakery has achieved national, global and regional recognition for their creative designs, innovations and entrepreneurial greatness. Bess continues to create cakes everyday at the bakery but looks forward to creating more titles in "The Adventures of LadyCakes" series and working with local organizations to influence the next generations of strong women!

Robert W. Ahrens was born and raised in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. His hometown Elgin was famous for watches and street sweepers. An artist all his life, Robert had a dream to be either a famous comic book artist or book illustrator. After graduating college with a degree in graphic design, he began a short career in advertising. Somehow creating ads just wasn't his dream job. His father had been a firefighter and had always instilled in his sons that you need to do more than just earn a paycheck. In 1990 Robert started working in the newsroom of The Northwest Herald in Crystal Lake, Illinois. He began a career as an informational graphic artist. During this new career he would be responsible for creating bar charts, locator map, explanatory graphics as well as illustrations. He would win many local, regional, state, national and international awards. His last newspaper was to be USA TODAY where he would eventually become the Night Graphics Editor. During this time, he was also able to work in his love of space and all things NASA. He would create 3D models for The International Space Station, Hubble Telescope and the Space Shuttle. Even working with NASA's Department of Education in partnership with the USA TODAY Newspapers in Education. This would allow him to also mentor winners of a Middle and High School student completion ion 2011 to commorerate the space shuttle program. Having been a gamer since forever, Robert also was a video game reviewer where his work was published in various newspapers and as part of USA TODAY's Game Hunters Blog. He currently lives in Cape Coral Florida with his artistic daughter, Elise and a lot of cats!