by Denera McCullough

I am the #1 Amazon Best Selling Author, Denera McCullough, born and raised in Harlem, New York. I wrote “1, 2, 3 Count Animals with Me” because of my family. My son inspired me, but this book was needed for young ones to experience diversity in education. I value family, education, community service, and self-love. I teach those same values to my toddler through story time every night. Even though my son has numerous books, I noticed the disparity of Black characters in literature and that is why this book needed to be written for the young ones to read. As a result of my observations, I decided to use my family’s adventures to create a line of children’s books. My intention is to inspire other authors to write children’s books featuring Black characters.

As a self-publisher, I wanted to show that I could compete with traditionally published books. I also wanted the Bestseller accolade to show self-published authors that becoming a #1 Amazon Best Selling Author in 3 categories is possible. I wanted my book to be easily accessible to guardians, teachers, and kids. When you browse through the internet very few people search past the 3^rd page to find a book. I understood that if my book was not at least on the 1^st page, my book would not be easily accessible.

Even though I just released my book on March 2nd, I already started working on my next two projects. The first book will be released in mid-January and the second book will be released in late February. I am excited about this project. Of course, my children inspired me to work on this project as well. Once again, I was looking for specific books that best represented my children with Black characters or multi-cultural characters and I could not find exactly what they needed. I believe people will read and love these stories as well. This time around my daughter will be the star of her own book.

Audra and the Bestseller team were amazing. They provided me with more than I expected. The team met and went beyond my expectations. Audra dropped several gems during our one-on-one sessions that I did not even think about. I love that I am continuously learning, and she is continuously teaching. I was relaxed the day of my release because Audra dedicated that day to me. She also opened her platforms to expose me to clients that I probably would have not reached without her. An everlasting memory was fun to see people change their Facebook profile pictures with Count Animals with Me frames. I cannot wait to work with this team again.

Denera McCullough, info@deneramccullough.com