About

Danna Smith is an artist, poetry blogger, and award-winning author of over twenty-five traditionally published children’s books. She created Plumbago Press to publish quality passion projects for older readers and to share her “writer’s Block” artwork.

When Danna was a child, her favorite toy was a pencil, she wrote stories and poems and doodled wherever she went. Plumbago is another word for graphite, the soft carbon used in lead pencils. Although today, her favorite toy is a computer keyboard, it seemed fitting when naming her press that she pay tribute to the simple pencil which gave a little girl a way to express herself and draw on her dreams of becoming an author and artist someday.