Pathfinder Press is a family-owned business on a mission to help other families find their path to creating stories with purpose. We believe that every family has a story to tell!
Pathfinder Creative Services grew out of years of learning, creating, and helping others bring their stories to life. Here’s how it began and how I hope to help authors take their next step.
Behind The Scenes
Faith first wrote Claus’s Clock Shop as a young teenager. More than a decade later, our family is finally brining the story to life... one edit, sketch and illustration at a time.
Reading Tips
One meaningful picture book can become a week of learning, creativity, and family conversation. Discover how we use stories to inspire deeper homeschool moments.
Have you ever finished a book, enjoyed it, and then moved on with your day without leaving a review? Most of us have. In fact, until I became an author myself, I had no idea how much those reviews mattered. As a reader, a review feels like a small thing,
There are some weeks that leave you tired, and then there are weeks that leave you grateful. Last week was both. A week and a half ago on Tuesday, we officially launched Made to Fly Free. After over a year of writing, editing, illustrating, proofing, and preparing, seeing stacks of
Launch Day Is Here It’s a funny thing sitting here on launch day. I’m surrounded by stacks of books while I sign copies and pack up preorders to drop in the mail today. And I can’t help but think back to the original spark of this story…
There are a lot of children’s books out there. Some are loud, some are rushed, and some feel more like a marketing message than a story. As I created this book, I thought carefully about the kind of stories I want filling our own home, because as a homeschooling
Over Mother’s Day this past weekend, we took a family walk together. It was one of those blustery spring days — still chilly, but irresistibly sunny. As we walked, one of the girls looked high into the swaying branches and spotted a delicate hanging nest. We’re pretty sure it
Spring has sprung, but here in Minnesota, we’ve had a slow start with a fair share of gray days, so we’ve been taking those opportunities to snuggle up with books for read-aloud time. The girls usually like to keep their hands busy while I read, and lately
As Made to Fly Free gets closer to releasing, I’ve been thinking about how to share it in a way that feels right because this book didn’t come from a big idea, but from the small, meaningful moments of everyday family life.
This is what it looked like for me to write a children’s book during our homeschool days, right in the middle of normal family life. This is the time of year when the birds are so busy. They’re building their nests, creating their little homes, preparing for what’
Right around this time last year, Dave and I were out on one of our evening walks, and our conversation drifted to what what might be next for Pathfinder Press. I had a children’s story ready. The manuscript was written. But there was one very obvious bottleneck—I didn’