Curate. Create. Publish.
Middle-grade fiction, memoir, and public-interest content — led by Terresa Augustine. Stories and resources that help young readers, and the champions around them, meet change, uncertainty, and possibility.
How we work
To gather, arrange, filter, and manage content for publishing — grounded in two decades of editorial leadership across public legal education and career development.
Original fiction, scripts, memoir, and classroom resources — from a middle-grade novel series to early-reader adventures and a produced stage script.
Bringing finished work to readers, classrooms, and the public in print and digital — with non-fiction resources built for learning alongside the story.
Featured title
Maddie's plans for the best summer ever are shattered when her parents accept a cultural anthropology assignment in Peru. Leaving her friends, plans, and Vancouver to live in Lima totally sucks!
Then she meets Jojo Kofi Afram, another culturally transported kid, rescues Wynn from a life on the streets, and discovers new ways to pursue her eco-fashion passion.
Life should be good — BUT it's not. Her mom wants her to be more 'regular', she misses Jenna and Grandpa Leo, and now Tata Sylvie is sick with the forgetting disease. Cultural differences, trouble at school, and changing family dynamics are a lot for a teen to deal with.
Follow Maddie Leon and her friends as they experience change, uncertainty, and possibility. A fiction story with non-fiction resources, suitable for middle-grade readers ages 9–12 and classroom learning.
Read chapters 1–4 at maddie-and-wynn.com →
The catalogue
The beloved rescue dog of Maddie Leon. Wynn's curiosity and kindness let her SEE and HEAR what people miss when they rely only on their opinions — short adventure stories that teach early readers to listen and observe before speaking or acting. maddie-and-wynn.com →
A philosophical script about finding yourself before it's too late. On day six of a 27-day Atlantic crossing, three guests and the Upper Deck bartender find themselves on an unexpected journey — through civility, crisis, and compassion they discover their commonality and hope.
A memoir about sexual abuse and interference. "Terresa was just the person I needed to put this memoir together… totally empathetic to the message I was trying to make." Picked up by a W5 investigative reporter — aired February 2022 (search "Hush Money").
Post-graduate literature review "Leadership in Canada" with Dr. Tim McIntosh, and an A+ Master's thesis on Leadership in a Cross-Cultural Context. Leadership for Leaders blog →
Curate
Public Legal Education and Information (PLEI) is produced in print and digital formats by agencies across Canada — for students, English-language learners, notaries, lawyers, libraries, workplaces, and the general public — covering family law, employment law, consumer law, and more, in many languages.
Terresa Augustine served as Executive Director of the People's Law School — the Public Legal Education Society of BC — from 2010 to 2015, and during that time as a member, then President, of the national association of PLEI providers in Canada. She helped shape workplace anti-bullying guidelines whose resulting resources are published through WorkSafe BC.
As Executive Director of BC's Labour Market and Career Information Association (later the BC Career Management Association) from 2001 to 2005, Terresa held provincial and national roles advancing knowledge of careers and the pathways to them.
In 2004 she was nominated to represent BC on Canada's National Integrated Delivery Strategy (2004–2006), and chaired both BC's Career Information Partnership network and the province's annual career development conferences. Across these roles she curated, wrote, published, and distributed career information, tools, and resources for students, practitioners, employers, and sector councils.