Eileen Wacker

Eileen Wacker's journey to become a children's book author took a circuitous route. She has a deep passion for storytelling and a genuine curiosity in cultures of the world. She moved with her husband and their four children to Seoul, South Korea, and lived there for four years. The family traveled extensively across Asia. Eventually the family settled in Honolulu. One of her children is Chinese and after researching the market, she discovered a shortage of quality children's books drawing upon pan-Asian themes. She decided to develop a book series with Asian characters for the mainstream children's book market (in English language children's books). In 2007 she conceived of what developed into the Fujimini Island Adventure Series. Her books are also available as ebooks and animated ebooks in Kindle, Nook, Apple (iPhone, iPad) and GooglePlay (Android devices). She developed a game app, featuring the Fujimini Adventure Series characters.

Eileen is an active educator and blogger writing articles about her passions - parenting, diversity and technology, for major online and print media. She is a parent columnist for NY Resident magazine. She is also on the board of Kapi'olani Medical Center for women and children, and Assets School in Honolulu, a school for gifted students who learn in different ways than mainstream students.

Eileen Wacker graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a finance degree and attended Harvard Business School for her MBA and approaches her brand with a twenty-first-century vision. She worked for General Electric for ten years in several countries. She is married with four children aged 9-14 and resides in Honolulu with her family. She is in the car driving her kids around for about four hours each day. They have a feisty dog named Buster Brown who always runs away to visit the neighbor's chihauhau. So life stays interesting.