Storymix is an inclusive fiction studio with social purpose that creates high-quality, original concept series with inclusive casts of characters, putting children of colour at the centre of the action.

Storymix is an inclusive fiction studio with social purpose that creates high-quality, original concept series with inclusive casts of characters, putting children of colour at the centre of the action.
It was neither purely a Nigerian immigrant story nor an African American romance—not even an urban tale. Reader, I decided to self-publish.
Dapo Adeola spills on everything from how the publishing industry mistreats its illustrators, to how he pulled off publishing an 18-illustrator picture book in under a year.
What makes Formy Books different is that they are an independent, family-run CIC (Community Interest Company). The core team consists of Editorial Director, Curtis Ackie, and their partner, Ebony Lyon serving as Head of Marketing.
Readers should be asking how these Black-authored titles would be different if they were also Black-edited, Black-designed, and Black-publicised.
All too often we scroll across well-meaning publishing people using POC when they mean Black, racism when they mean anti-Blackness.