https://www.elizabethchestney-hanson.com/about daily 0.75 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/9b0858ab-e343-437e-ab3f-2f72af887325/A+Night+Out+With+Stephie+XO.jpg About A writer-illustrator, I have a master’s degree in English and ghostwrite non-fiction books, with my most recent, Pathway to the Stars: 100 Years of the Royal Canadian Air Force and children’s version, Aviation Nation, published in 2024. In fiction, my MG fantasy, OTHERWORLD, was longlisted for the WriteMentor Children’s Novel Award and CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition. I was a mentee in the Write Team Mentorship Program. An interview about that experience can be read here. https://www.elizabethchestney-hanson.com/consulting daily 0.75 2025-07-23 https://www.elizabethchestney-hanson.com/my-writing daily 0.75 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/1595262840583-RWMVY41O130XYEIKCDAB/cliffs%252Bof%252Bmohar.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/1595260492490-ER8FN3J45LWQB5RLTDTA/Evey%252BMega%252BBat2.jpg https://www.elizabethchestney-hanson.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-07-22 https://www.elizabethchestney-hanson.com/home daily 1.0 2025-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/1595196286528-1PVYK3VLNZE5DNB2REPX/image-asset.jpeg Home - My Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/1595196196693-7QM7BA4T4HSI6MKPRI9N/Warhol%252BProfiel%252BPic.jpg Home - About Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/1595196488832-5J6KH2WX7EOPGRWI9NWE/image-asset.jpeg Home - Consulting https://www.elizabethchestney-hanson.com/otherworld-the-white-raven daily 0.75 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/1595268619930-140NL2K2I8J1OXAFELES/Otherworld+Aesthetic+July+2020.jpg Otherworld - The White Raven Upper MG Fantasy • 70,000 words When thirteen-year-old Eleanor Gwynn sees a ghost of her missing twin sister, Hannah, she thinks she’s out of her scientific mind. Then she finds a strange silver amulet and is stalked by a mysterious white raven. On Halloween night, the ghostly vision of Hannah appears. But when Eleanor pursues the ghost, she finds no answers—only more questions. Eleanor follows the apparition into a parallel world called Pryderi where trees hoard secrets, stones scream, and magic is real. The ghost of her sister is actually Branwen, Daughter of Llŷr, the rightful owner of the amulet. The white raven was sent to summon Eleanor because someone else pursues the amulet. As one of the four Gifts of Life, it can restore vengeful demigod Balor’s powers—of which he’s been recently stripped. Eleanor refuses the call to protect the amulet. Believing that Branwen is her long-lost sister, she plans to bring her home. But Eleanor’s arrival sets a prophecy in motion and binds her to Branwen. Together, they must solve an impossible string of prophetic challenges (how does one catch a falling star in the moonlit sky?) to locate the elemental Gifts of Life before Balor finds them and fuses their power for unchecked evil. Only a sacred sisterhood—one part science and one part magic—can unlock the secrets Eleanor and Branwen need to succeed. If they fail time will stop forever, Pryderi will fall, and Eleanor will never return home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/1595271829962-HH1YFTY3G2DBKX4X3T49/Kingdom+of+Prydein.jpg Otherworld - The White Raven - Outlander for tweens… OTHERWORLD: THE WHITE RAVEN is portal fantasy that combines the immersive world-building of The Girl Who Drank the Moon with the poignant science behind The Thing About Jellyfish. Old mythology meets new tech: OTHERWORLD was inspired by the Celtic Welsh folklore of The Mabinogion and puts a modern twist of girls in STEM on some of the earliest stories ever written. Other comp titles include: Lark and the Wild Hunt (Jennifer Adam) • A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying (Kelley Armstrong) The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (Jaclyn Moriarty) • A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle) • Doctor Who • The Book of Three (Lloyd Alexander) https://www.elizabethchestney-hanson.com/creative-nonfiction daily 0.75 2020-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/1595264393137-CIV7WCA2BTR0RI8MP4MK/image-asset.jpeg Creative Non-Fiction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/1595264119006-UZWS7GDVIIYLNR7WQY34/image-asset.jpeg Creative Non-Fiction https://www.elizabethchestney-hanson.com/montysaurus daily 0.75 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/7cac7d83-dac7-4f12-a73d-d9a93d7d3124/STREETCAR+2.jpg Montysaurus MONTYSAURUS is an illustrated middle grade novel-in-verse. A contemporary fantasy, it’s perfect for fans of the movie Paddington and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg or The Dinosaur Sanctuary graphic novel series by Itaru Kinoshita (Author) and Shin-ichi Fujiwara (Contributor). Nine-year-old Pudge thinks it’s okay to lie, as long as no one gets hurt. But when he tells a lie that puts another kid’s life in danger, the fallout is the last straw for Pudge’s already bickering parents. Then his dad leaves for a dig in Brazil, and the rest of the family moves across town into a shoe-boxed sized apartment. As he struggles to fit in at a new school, Pudge is pretty sure his dad is never coming back. Then Pudge meets Monty—a four-foot-tall live dinosaur—on a class trip to the museum. Suddenly, he has the perfect bait to lure his dad home. All he needs is proof. Pudge sneaks back into the museum but when he finds Monty, he discovers he can talk. And he’s on the run from a power-hungry curator who wants to clone him. Pudge smuggles Monty home but it’s hard to keep the world’s biggest secret in the world’s smallest apartment (especially if you’ve promised never to lie again). As the villainous curator closes in, Pudge must decide: keep lying to protect his new dino bestie or tell the truth about Monty and fix the family he broke. https://www.elizabethchestney-hanson.com/gnato daily 0.75 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/e4336ff5-34c3-45c7-b6ae-dc6ee92628ac/Edmund+on+the+Dragonfly+v1.jpg https://www.elizabethchestney-hanson.com/portfolio-3 daily 0.75 2025-11-24 https://www.elizabethchestney-hanson.com/portfolio-3/project-two-whgpe-ywjen monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/24cf1973-a65f-495e-a54c-3e050340d765/1.+Willoughby.jpg Portfolio - GNATO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/1753217677715-31I4Q4PRA3YHW2XZNY47/2.%2BUrsula.jpg Portfolio - GNATO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/e1a0ee6f-d32e-43d5-95e6-ccfc3f2907bd/3.+Cedric.jpg Portfolio - GNATO https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/a46f5137-0f74-4cd1-b22a-590af6123072/Edmund+on+the+Dragonfly+v1.jpg Portfolio - GNATO https://www.elizabethchestney-hanson.com/portfolio-3/project-one-h346n-45p4g monthly 0.5 2025-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/e2dcbc87-e89a-4bdd-a971-5160c5e8e94e/STREETCAR+2.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS Newsflash: Because a tiny-ish dino riding on a streetcar is never normal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/50bd8b08-0546-4d35-bf45-416b45a39831/Diorama+5.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS I swear the dino gave me the side-eye! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/1753204110315-8O2GG1TCM5HSOVV7X138/SAM%2BLEE%2B2.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS Sam Lee always wore a grey-and-white wolf hat with flaps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/b18cc5e6-4743-47e8-88c3-f71e839d610f/2a.+ROM+Floor+Plan+Level+1.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS To find the dino, we'd have to draw up a floor plan of the Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/d6523360-1e76-474a-8bd1-c3ca2c65b68c/Museum+Second+Floor.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS The Bat Cave was on the second floor of the museum. Not like Batman’s Bat Cave but a replica of bats living in a cave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/b0db81a1-8580-4398-b3e5-58d741277810/STICKER+2.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS I pointed to a fruit sticker stuck to the scales on his tail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/442bcdbf-99bc-4df1-b08c-e22cb93ba640/MONTY+GUMMIES.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS Monty scooped up a claw-full of gummy worms and shoved them into his mouth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/850e37ec-b85b-4328-bb07-f6f379e0c5cf/BAT+CAVE+COPY.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS “Nonsense,” came the reply, “and piffle. There is no bat-shaming allowed in the Bat Cave.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/779713f2-0caf-4b39-9cac-b032472616d8/CROOKER.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS Chasing Monty from the lab, Silas Crooker reminded me of a pterosaur. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/1ee5f845-b9fe-456a-8073-85d36512dbff/MICRO+COPY.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS Crooker was using the micromanipulator on dino eggs! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/95c547fd-8c8b-41c5-9831-d13ce9cb8282/Chickensaurus+Sketch+3.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS He was breeding mutant chickensauruses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/caa2e4fb-35de-470e-9e23-2480c001347d/TREEHOUSE+COPY+2.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS I grabbed Dad’s grey hoodie, the one that read “I Like Big Fossils And I Cannot Lie." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/9c1d6c54-889d-42c5-8177-1400bc321700/SAMPSON+2+USE.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS Unimpressed, Sampson hissed at the tiny dino. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/15219f67-5274-47a1-80b3-94c28b0e2da4/Totem+Pole+2.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS The missing eggs were hidden in the mortuary pole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/1750633907476-YJ97QJM4ZLSXXB2NNIWA/Chickensaurus%2BSketch%2B1.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS I named my favorite chickensaurus, the one with the side-eye, “Tyrannosaurus Pecks” or “T-Pecks” for short. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f14b4b1a7e0852bbbdd042d/7655466e-7159-4519-b107-db572dc524a8/Chickensaurus+Sketch+2.jpg Portfolio - MONTYSAURUS Sam Lee named her favorite Hen Solo.