Everyone is dealing with an upended new reality what with the pandemic and all.

I’ve lost gigs and income but on the whole, I count myself fortunate.

And in the grand scheme of things I’ve decided to give back, do what I can to make life a bit more bearable.

What can I give back? Knowledge and learning! And author workshops.

I still have to ensure that I don’t give out my bread and butter. Those are the presentations I’ve honed and refined over twenty years of storytelling that feature my books. They form a significant percentage of my income and I can’t give those away for free.

But this is an opportunity to explore things that I don’t have time to talk about in those presentations.

And in this time of community I thought what better book to showcase than Many Windows: Six Kids, Five Faiths, One Community!

It’s all about community!

It’s a collection of seven connected stories about six kids (on the cover) who are friends despite their religious differences.

So I’ve created a series of author workshops that parents can watch with their children, highlighting each story and what kids can learn from them in a workshop format.

What I suggest is that parents watch the videos (each video is about 15 minutes long) with their children, and then discuss the points I make in the video. Each story is part of a larger story arc, and I talk about how the whole is building from each character’s story.

A librarian friend of mine told me he teared up by the end of it! And this guy is big and strong!!! It really is a good book, but unfortunately people didn’t quite get what myself and my fellow authors were trying to accomplish. So….sometimes you got a explain it. And I do.

Here’s the first workshop I uploaded on my Youtube channel MsRukhsanaKhan.

If you retweet the links I will add your name to a draw that I will do at the end of the last story, for a draw for a free copy of the book!

It’s not too late to retweet!

We’re all in this together!