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Lance Bass Author

Lance Bass is a singer, host, actor, producer, writer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who is mostly known from his time in the successful musical group NSYNC. Lance is also the owner of both Rocco’s and Heart in West Hollywood, and he hopes to continue expanding within the entertainment industry through his endeavors in children’s publishing. He boasts an impressive social media following of 811K Instagram followers and 1.4 million TikTok followers. Lance lives in Los Angeles with his husband, their twins, and two dogs.

Roland Garrigue is a prolific children’s book illustrator from Paris, France. From childhood to today, he has never ceased drawing. As a child he read his favorite books hundreds of times, and became inspired by the work of Tomi Ungerer, Colin Hawkins, and Quentin Blake. He attended art school in Strasbourg, and became a children’s illustrator.  He loves to draw fantastic universes and surreal situations, populating his books with characters from all walks of life—monsters, vampires, witches, pirates, aliens, children, and all the strange creatures he can dream up. Roland loves to travel and explore foreign cities and countries, and he hopes his stories can transport his readers to equally exciting places. His illustrations may feature absurd scenarios and bizarre creatures, but at its heart, his work expresses truths and experiences about the world we live in.