Deborah Cholette

As a kid, my mom and I would watch classic movies on TV. The images I saw inspired me to create intricate scenes in my mind until my story was finished. I remember being seven or eight and not getting enough sleep.

Over the years, I wrote romantic comedies.

Then, one day I woke up with a vision of a boy waking up in front of his house, only a head on a mysterious metallic base. I thought… who would like a crazy story about a boy who had his body stolen? So, I ignored it for a few months. But it kept haunting me, so I had to write it. And when I did, kids disappeared for hours reading it all the way through. And the kids I met at school readings were so full of wonder, acceptance and excitement.

I was hooked on writing for kids. My newest book DIGGER: DIG OR DIE! is my debut middle grade novel released in early Spring 2025 from One Elm Books, an imprint of Red Chair Press.