Hi, I'm Elena Paige - fantasy author, artist, and children's book coach.
Before I wrote my first children's book, I spent nearly twenty years in a room with people who were trying to change.
One on one. In groups. In classrooms and workshops and quiet spaces where people came to understand themselves better. I worked in psychology and transformational practice long enough to know one thing with absolute certainty:
Real change doesn't arrive as a lesson.
It arrives as a feeling. Something that shifts quietly underneath the surface before the mind even catches up.
And one day I realized — the best children's books do exactly the same thing.
They don't teach children how to feel. They create the conditions for it. They give children an experience they carry into adulthood without even knowing it shaped them.
Because books create the adults.
That's when everything changed for me.
I've now written over 25 fantasy books for young readers across six series — including the bestselling Evie Everyday Witch series and the award-winning Faren Chronicles, which has been translated into Russian.
My stories are whimsical and fast-paced and full of magic that feels just close enough to real. A witch hiding in suburbia. A secret world tucked inside an ordinary street. Young protagonists who are braver than they think, in worlds stranger than they imagined.
But underneath every adventure — underneath the lovable characters and the mischief and the wonder — there is always something true about what it means to grow up. To find yourself. To belong.
I also spent years creating meditation recordings — first for adults, then for children — which became my first published series, Meditation Adventures for Kids. It was my earliest attempt to translate inner work into something a child could hold in their hands.
Fantasy turned out to be the better vehicle. Because when magic is the container, children will go anywhere with you. Including the places that matter most.
I'm also a children's book coach, and I believe the writers who come to me already know, on some level, that their stories can do more than entertain.
I teach through The Picture Book and Middle Grade Writing Blueprint — a comprehensive course in the psychology and craft of writing for young readers. I host The Children's Book Author Podcast. And every week I write Transform Through Story on Substack, where I explore what actually makes children's books land, and why so many don't.
If you're a writer who wants to go deeper, you'll find me there.
I live in Melbourne, Australia, with my husband of 25 years — which feels both completely normal and mildly astonishing — and our two adult children who have very generously stopped asking when I'm going to get a real job.
When I'm not writing, I'm in my art studio painting trees. Bright colors, a little glitter, and always something slightly wild. Trees have always felt like the right subject, rooted and reaching at the same time.
I think that's probably true of everything I make.
FUN FACTS...
FAVORITE COLOR Blue! And pink! And orange and red! Oh, maybe all the colors. Why choose when you can live in technicolor?
WHY DO I PAINT TREES? Trees have always felt magical to me. When I paint them, I feel rooted and free all at once — like they're whispering stories back to me. Each one is a symbol of growth, resilience, and quiet transformation. I use bright, joyful colors and always add a touch of glitter, because what is life without a bit of sparkle?
FAVORITE PLACE TO WRITE My writing studio is tucked away on my property — no phone allowed. Just me, my snack, my computer. It feels like a portal to another world where I can be wildly, unapologetically creative. It never feels like work.
FAVORITE KIDS BOOK No Flying in the House stole my heart. A girl who finds out she's a fairy and has to choose between wings or parents? My child self really wanted her to choose wings. You'll have to read it to find out what she actually picked…
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