The Land of Artemis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692046098)

C.R. Shuman is a young author who was born with physical and intellectual challenges. Despite doctors' and therapists' prognoses of many limitations, she attended public school, and her parents Stacey and Gary encouraged her in dancing lessons, waterskiing on the family ski lake, participation in children's choirs, and acting in plays and musicals. She is also a successful athlete, winning multiple medals at the state level in basketball, track, swimming and gymnastics in the Texas Special Olympics. In 2011, she earned a green belt in Wado International Karate, the highest rank ever earned by a student with multiple disabilities. She graduated from Allen High School in 2004, and attended Collin County Community College soon after. She is single, and currently lives independently in a group home in Stephenville, Texas, where she works in a local restaurant, attends church, and continues to compete in Special Olympics. For many years, she has had a dream of writing a book that would encourage children to use their imaginations. Fantasy literature and art are her passions, and she has been inspired by the works of J.K. Rowling, Walt Disney, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. In 2016, she fulfilled a dream when she visited King's Cross Station in London and stood on Platform 9 3/4. She thanks God for all of those opportunities and blessings. She also loves to travel internationally, and is planning her next dream vacation - a Disney cruise to the Bahamas, without family.