Assuming You Survive was co-conceived by Margaret Treanor Frey and Mary Anne Mohanraj after an inspiring writing convention in 2019. It’s written and illustrated by Margaret Treanor Frey.

It took us a while to decide on a theme.

But they say to write what you know, and we decided there weren’t enough stories about moms trying to get their mom stuff done. So we made a story about the everyday (that also happens to be in a setting with dragons and merfolk and hybrids).

Sita is a human mom with two mixed-race kids who decides to leave the human town they were living in because her children didn’t feel like they belonged anywhere. She takes a risk, and moves to a town she’s heard of, ‘Adventure Village’ which boasts residents of all different races. Her kids fit right in, but she doesn’t, as the only human there.

Assuming You Survive explores the question of what you do after you’ve done the risky youthful adventuring, you’ve had the kids, you’ve made it through the major health crisis (Mary Anne and Margaret had both beat cancer a few years before) and you’re still here. Now what?

It’s about community, differences, found family, and reinventing yourself. And shape-shifting dragons and dryads and eagles and centaurs and merfolk and treasure and mysteries.

And baked goods.