Aloha, Bonjour, and Howdy!

Hello! My name is Mariposa Aristeo. I’m an ultra-shy girl (in person) who dreams of being an author/illustrator. When I’m not thinking, reading, or writing about dinosaurs, I’m drawing them. I hide Easter eggs in my art like Pixar does in their films. Sometimes I hide a reference to one of my future books, an old TV actor, or a Disney character. I am a spider-hating germ-killer who is repulsed by people who don’t wash their hands.

I was born detesting writing, but that hate melted into love. I wrote two books; at the time I thought they were stupendous but now I think they’re dreadful. I was attempting to publish one of them when I stumbled into a sink hole. I struggled to escape but the walls were too steep. My mind seethed in boredom so I started writing a ridiculous story to relieve the pain. That story become the rope that yanked me up and out.

That’s enough jabbering about me for today. Now I’d like to introduce y’all to my assistant, Aberdeen the Authorosaurus. He is a book-eating, ink-drinking dinosaur from the Createtus period. He can break writer’s block with his head (most of the time) and can sharpen pencils with his teeth. Too many adjectives give him a stomach ache, too many adverbs give him a headache, and cliches make him sneeze. You can like him on Fossilbook, Stomper, and Iguanodonram.

If you want to know a little bit more about me or Aberdeen, please visit, http://www.thetinytealtypewriter.com or http://www.instagram.com/mariposa.aristeo.