To Every Kid Whose Brain Lives Three Galaxies Ahead of everyone else… I wrote a Book for You

Hey there, star-chaser.

Close your eyes for a second and picture this:

A green-skinned kid is dangling upside-down from a classroom ceiling, arms flailing like a confused space squid, while the entire class loses it laughing. His face is burning. His heart is pounding. And still, even while the Elder is glaring at him like he’s a glitch in the system, his mind is already three galaxies away, dreaming of fixing an entire dead planet.

That kid is Marsus.

And I never once called him anything but Marsus.

No labels. No boxes. No tidy little words that grown-ups like to stick on kids so they can file them away and feel like they understand.

I did that on purpose.

Because I’m the kid who grew up hearing “you’re too much,” “you’re too intense,” “why can’t you just focus and sit still?” I’m the one who was asked, more times than I can count, if I shouldn’t be on medication. I know what it feels like to be told your brain is a problem that needs fixing.

So when I sat down to write Rise of the Explorers, I made one promise to myself and to every kid who would ever open these pages:

I will not put you in a box.

Marsus is messy and brilliant and loud and distracted and bursting with ideas that explode (sometimes literally) in his face. He blurts out the impossible question right in the middle of a lecture. He builds things that blow up. He falls down. He gets back up. He never stops dreaming.

And every single one of those so-called “flaws” labeled by others?

They are the exact qualities that are going to get humanity to Mars.

The brain that races ahead of everyone else? That’s the one that sees solutions no one else can even imagine. The kid who builds the cities that will one day rise under a blue Martian sunrise. The heart that stays open even when the whole world laughs? That’s the resilience that turns a crashed spaceship, two scared Earth kids, a determined Martian, a sarcastic NASA rover and a color-changing chaotic pet with ZERO concept of personal space into the greatest team the Red Planet has ever known. The wild, contagious, can’t-stop-talking-about-stars passion? That’s the fire that will light the way for every single person who follows.

This book isn’t about making any kid feel like an outcast. It’s about showing them that who they are isn’t a mistake. Their wiring isn’t broken. It’s rocket fuel for their wildest dreams.

After watching the Artemis II Moon flyby mission, a whole new wave of kids is looking up at the stars and asking the same question Marsus asks every single day:

“What if we could do this? What if we could get to Mars? And beyond?”

The answer is simple.

We’re going to need the weird ones. The intense ones. The ones whose brains live three galaxies ahead. The ones who never give up, even when life gets though. Even when others stop believing in them.

Because those are the kids who don’t just dream of the stars. They build the ships that get us there.

So if your child is the one who can’t sit still, who blurts out the wildest ideas, who falls down and laughs and gets back up swinging… hand them Rise of the Explorers.

Let Marsus, Blorp, and Oppy show them that their brain isn’t a glitch. It’s a superpower.

And being exactly who they are? Yeah… no. That’s how we get to Mars.

Free first chapter waiting for you right here → [marsusuniverse.com/free-chapter]

Let’s raise the generation that actually makes it happen. The weird, wonderful, unstoppable ones.

- With all my heart, Julie (and Marsus, who’s probably messing up all my notes right now) 🚀✨