The Chris Six Group is a New York-based imprint with a handful of new and semi-new authors, including Kew Stapleton (who's threatening us with three more titles), Ska St. Julian (who promises to do readings someday), Raanan Geberer ("Diner under the El," "Song of the Conquerors"), and Chris Six, AKA the brains of the outfit. Our illustrator is art therapist Eugenia Cameron. We share a vision of a more creative, more egalitarian world with lots of singing and dancing. We're into old records, classic films, and eating out. Influencing us as writers are a wide range of scribes, from Shakespeare to Zadie Smith, Joseph Heller to Hunter S. Thompson. We read true crime and show-biz bios quite a bit, and one of us admits to a certain fondness for costume romances. We've all got day jobs that we dream of leaving when we become famous as J.K. Rowling, but we intend to stay mysterious as J.D. Salinger.

Kew Stapleton's New York Brain received a five-star review from Katelyn Hensel of Readers' Favorite. Raanan Geberer has been commended for his involvement in archaeological digs in Israel. And eight-year-old LeeLee in the Bronx says The Basket of Seeds is "the most awesomest book I ever read!"