Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the Webby-nominated podcast.

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Donnie, who's the author of children's book Super Satya Saves the Day,

which recently won the Purple Dragonfly Award from Barat Babies.

She's an award-winning writer, editor, and pediatric cancer crusader.

Her work has appeared in Elle, Redbook Huff Post, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, among other publications.

She's currently the editorial director of diversity inclusion at Dow Jones.

Rocky has appeared on The Today Show and on Sirius X-N.

So I'm here today with Rocky Merchandani.

And we met at the Brooklyn Book Festival.

And my kids and I have both all fallen in love with you.

So I'm super excited you're here.

Actually, my daughter, my younger daughter, invited Rocky to our house and asked her to sleepover. She did. Day one, minute one. Can I want to come over to sleepover? Like, maybe, why not? Luckily, you weren't totally creeped out by that. So that's good. What'd be weird if I asked her, you know what I mean? I feel like what she asked, it was okay. Oh my gosh. I'm sure she will be sneaking in here at some point. She's like so excited to have her in the house. Anyway, okay, so Super Satya saves the day. What is it? This is a children's book. Yes. Tell us what this book is about and what inspired you to write this children's book? So it's a picture book.

I always thought I would write a book. Like, I'm a journalist. I always wanted to be a writer. Like, this is the thing I wanted to do as editor of my school paper. I was not going to have another career. I was going to write. I just figured I would write newspapers, which is what I did for the last 15 years or so. and I set out and I was like in my brain I'm going to write a novel one day.

This is what I'm going to write a novel one day.

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