B. A. Lumin’s love of science goes back to a single high school Organic Chemistry class — the moment the scientific method clicked, not as steps to memorize, but as a way of paying attention: ask a real question, test it honestly, and be willing to be wrong. That habit shaped how Lumin sees the world, and eventually how they started telling stories.

The Carter Family Series was written with grandchildren in mind — three siblings who ask the same relentless questions any curious kid asks, and a family that lets them chase the answers, mistakes included. Underneath the science and the space and the backyard workshop is a simpler idea: that people, like experiments, deserve room to turn out differently than expected, and that different was never the same as wrong.

Whispers in the Workshop is the first of ten books following the Carter siblings.