Laura Schaefer is co-founder of WordChum.com and the author of The Secret Ingredient (Simon & Schuster 2011) and The Teashop Girls (Simon & Schuster 2008). She is also the founder and publisher of Planet Explorers Travel Guides for Kids. The series includes titles covering Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Universal Orlando, LEGOland Florida, SeaWorld, New York City, Philadelphia, London, Las Vegas, Hawaii, Chicago and The Smithsonian.Under the pen name Avery Sawyer, Laura is the author of Notes to Self, a young adult novel about a teen with a traumatic brain injury.Visit Laura online at wordchum.com, teashopgirls.com or planet-explorers.net. You can follow her on Twitter (@teashopgirl) or look for her frequent articles at Match.com, Entrepreneur.com, MoneyMix Magazine online and several other sites.