New on the Christian Moms Cafe Podcast: a conversation with Shemeca Cooper of Cooper Legacy Books
Have you ever flipped through one of your kids’ books and thought, “Hmm, I don’t love what this is teaching them”?
Shemeca Cooper has been there. A Navy wife of 21 years and a homeschooling mom of two, she started looking more closely at what her children were reading after her family moved to Maryland and she felt God nudging her toward homeschooling. The comic books her kids loved kept landing in the “not in this house” pile. Eventually her kids protested: Mom, you’re taking away everything we like to read!
As she walked away from that conversation, she sensed a quiet prompting: Create your own.
So she turned around and asked her kids a question that changed their family’s story: “What if we made our own books?”
From kitchen-table dream to family publishing company
In this episode, Shemeca shares how that moment grew into Cooper Legacy Books, a family-run publishing company that makes fun, comic-style children’s books full of humor, life lessons, and biblical values. She co-writes every book with her kids.
You’ll hear:
- The simple daily habit that turned her kids’ ideas into finished manuscripts, even though Shemeca says she “knew nothing about writing books” when they started
- How her kids helped hire their own illustrators and weren’t shy about asking for changes to the mockups
- What the stories are about: twin girls with a guardian angel starting middle school, and a middle schooler learning the hard way that honesty matters (and that Mom and Dad always find out)
- The unexpected gifts Shemeca watched surface in her children along the way
- How she balances guarding what her kids take in with really listening to the world they’re growing up in
A word for the mom who’s been sitting on an idea
If you’ve sensed God calling you to start something, with your kids or on your own, Shemeca's encouragement is one you’ll want to hear. Her motto is simple, and her reminder about mistakes might be the freeing truth you need this week: “My mistakes will not make the lights in heaven flicker.”
Whether your kids are budding storytellers or you’re looking for a fresh way to teach faith, leadership, and creativity at home, this conversation will leave you inspired to stop overthinking and take the next step.
🎧 Listen to the full episode now on the Christian Moms Cafe Podcast, and visit Cooper Legacy Books to meet the Cooper family and browse their books.
