Willie Williamson’s North Pole began with a child’s question. After a 40-year career with AT&T, he started a second life as a personal appearance Santa Claus, and the children he met wanted to know everything. Willie began writing down his answers, and those answers became the North Pole Adventure Series.

Willie grew up in Louisiana around the Atchafalaya Basin, which taught him to value a place, the people who live there, and the stories that grow out of both. Today he lives in Georgia with his wife and keeps building the North Pole world. His hope is simple: that readers and the adults beside them will finish a story and wonder, “What if that’s really how it works?