Simel Bey releases his first children's book, Children's Initiatic Tales: Stories from the Immortal Light. This fifty-seven page soft-cover features six original tales that take readers through themes such as abuse towards redemption.

LongTale Publishing introduces the literacy foundation READ3Zero, designed to support the nourishment of creative endeavors in children. READ3Zero is presently taking story submissions and will publish short-stories written by kids, for kids in 2010.