About Us

Susan Chodakiewitz is a writer, composer and producer. She is the founder of Booksicals Children’s Books- Encouraging the love of reading through the arts. She lives in Los Angeles in a lively household filled with music, three sons, a husband, a Dalmatian and lots of visitors. Susan loves picture books and she wrote a musical based on one of her favorites. She realized it was time to start writing her own picture books. Too Many Visitors for One Little House is Susan’s debut book. If you happen to see Susan sitting in the children’s section of the library reading picture books with a big smile on her face, do say hello.
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With a sense of humor and identification to the characters, Veronica Walsh created the illustrations for Too Many Visitors for One Little House. Veronica studied art and design at California State University, Long Beach, and worked as a graphic designer for many years. She lives in Southern California with her husband and three cats.
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Meir Chodakiewitz is the Booksicals music producer. With a background in drums, guitar, and classical piano, Meir is comfortable producing all types of music from pop, rock, and electronica to world music and film score. Meir is graduate of the CSSSA music program at Cal Arts where he scored various student films and composed the music for the CSSSA official website. Meir is the co-composer of the musical Too Many Visitors for One Little House. Meir is a student at UCLA and is currently involved in various ongoing musical projects.
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Brian Holt produced the sound track for the musical Too Many Visitors for One Little House. Brian played in everything from stage bands to funk, rock and reggae bands. For several years Brian owned ESP Studios in East Harlem, later touring with groups like the Chi-lites, Blue Magic, the Moments, The Stylistics and the Dells as sound engineer and guitar player. Switching gears to music production Brian began engineering at many of New York’s top studios, including ‘The Hit Factory’, ‘Greene Street’, ‘Firehouse’, ‘Streetlight’ and ‘D+D Studios.’ He composed pieces for avant-garde performance artists is currently composing for commercials, independent films and film libraries. Brian owns and operates Solstar Studios in Los Angeles.

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the marketing director for Booksicals. Phyllis’ company Miller Mosaic, LLC builds call-to-action websites for book authors and small business entrepreneurs as well as teaches people how to use social networking (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) to promote their projects online.
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Yael K. Miller is the webmaster for Booksicals and the Chief Technology Officer for Miller Mosaic, LLC. Charged with finding a website solution that would allow website owners to have total control of their sites, Yael explored WordPress and design, becoming interested in both the technical coding behind the scenes and the visual results on the screens. Then Yael connected on Twitter with people who are quite willing to share their expertise with her. And the rest, as the saying goes, is history.
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