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Your child does not speak with their mouth, and yet you are completely certain they understand every word, every mood, every unspoken thing in the room.
Harmony Hearts Collective Publishing
Your child has a story.Let's bring it home.
If you are raising an autistic nonspeaker who is actively telepathic, you already know there is so much more going on than the world has been told. This is an invitation to put that story into a real, illustrated book, with me holding your hand through all of it.
Apply to tell your story
For mums in our community. A few families at a time, so it stays close and proper.
First, the quiet bit
You know things about your child that nobody handed you in a report.
I am not going to celebrate your whole experience at you, because some of it is just hard. But I will say this: the thing you sense is real. So have a read of these, and see if any of them land.
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There are moments between you that feel like more than guessing. You think something, and it lands. They think something, and you catch it.
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You hold both at once: the genuinely magical, and the mopping. The wonder, and the broken things, the sleepless nights, the personal care that never clocks off.
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You have wanted, for the longest time, to get it all down somewhere. To make it solid. So it is not just held in your tired head and your phone notes.
If you nodded at even one of those, keep reading. This was made for you.
See what we can create together
Here is the kind of book your story could become.
The Adventures of Kody and Aron
Through the Eyes of the Wise... AKA Mum!
Illustrated. Chaptered. A4 Paperback. Available Now.
This is my own book, the first one out of Harmony Hearts Collective Publishing. It is the true story of my two youngest sons, both autistic nonspeakers, and what unfolded when I learned how they really communicate.
It is funny in the places you would not expect. It is honest about the parts nobody photographs. And it is illustrated all the way through with original artwork. That is the standard your book would be made to: the same care, the same settings, fonts, and design system, so the series holds together.
The team behind this book, illustrators Noriko and Ichiro Matsubara and telepathic communicator Mich Carpenter, are part of the process for your story too.
“When words aren't spoken, love finds another way.”
How it works
You carry the story. I carry the heavy lifting.
You will not be left in front of a blank page on your own. The whole point of this is that you do as little of the hard, technical, lonely work as possible.
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Step 01 — You share
We sit down together and you tell me your story, your way. I gather it from you properly, so nothing precious gets lost. You talk, I listen, I take care of the shape of it.
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Step 02 — I create
I write and build the book for you, under Harmony Hearts Collective Publishing. Same illustrated, chaptered style as Book One, so your story joins a series that already has a home.
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Step 03 — We publish
Your family's book goes out into the world, properly made, properly held. Another voice in the collective, another link in the chain, as my son Aron would say.
The honest bit about money
Straight talk, no jargon.
I am not going to dress this up. Here is exactly how it works, so you can decide with a clear head.
I collect your story and create the book for you. In return, I take a portion of the sales once your book is out in the world. That is the constant, whoever you are.
On the self-publishing costs
- If you can manage an upfront fee toward the self-publishing costs, that is welcome and it helps us both.
- If you genuinely cannot, then we work on the shared-sales arrangement alone. No upfront fee.
I have set it up this way on purpose. The money you do or do not have should never be the reason your child's story stays untold.
No mum is left out. That is the whole point.
Who you would be working with
Hello, I'm Monique.
I am a mum of five from South London, and a co-advocate alongside my two youngest sons, Kody and Aron, who are both autistic nonspeakers.
When I learned how they truly communicate, later including telepathy, everything shifted. That journey became my first book, alongside Harmony Hearts: a network for families raising nonspeaking and beyond-verbal autistic children, and the Heart Allies who stand with us.
I started Collective Publishing because Book One was never meant to be the only one. It is a collective, not a one-author press. Your story belongs in it just as much as mine. So if you have been waiting for someone who gets it and can help you do this, here I am.
Alongside me are illustrators Noriko and Ichiro Matsubara, who created the original artwork throughout my book, and Mich Carpenter, telepathic communicator for Kody and Aron. Between us, we bring the words, the visuals, and the deeper listening. Your story would be in all of our hands.
Monique
Your invitation
Apply to tell your story.
Fill this in as a starting point, in your own words. There are no wrong answers, and nothing here is binding. It just opens the door for the two of us to have a proper chat.