Mona Liza Santos is more than a children’s author. She is a Filipina American founder, mother, and creative visionary building a literary legacy rooted in empathy, confidence, and emotional strength. As the founder of World Love Press in San Diego, she creates stories that empower children, especially young girls, to honor their feelings and embrace their unique voices.
Her work centers on a simple yet powerful belief. When children learn to understand their emotions early in life, they grow into compassionate and confident adults. Through storytelling, she helps families foster deeper connection, resilience, and kindness at home and within their communities.
Writing as an Act of Love
Her journey began during the uncertainty of the 2020 pandemic, when families across the world faced fear and isolation. In that quiet stillness, Mona turned inward and began writing for her young son, creating stories that offered reassurance, warmth, and connection.
What started as a deeply personal act of love soon evolved into a global mission to support families through storytelling. Her debut book, Mama, I Love You, resonated with parents and educators and later received the Mom’s Choice Gold Award for excellence in family friendly media. The book became a reminder that vulnerability is strength and that nurturing emotional intelligence from an early age builds confident and compassionate adults.
A Woman Building Her Own Platform
As a founder, Mona leads every aspect of World Love Press with intention. She has written and published more than 40 children’s books spanning picture books, poetry, reflective storytelling, and imaginative tales. Each title carries themes of kindness, self worth, cultural pride, and emotional awareness.
Her perspective is shaped by motherhood, Filipino heritage, and travel to more than 70 countries. This global experience brings sensitivity and inclusion into her storytelling. For young readers especially, her books affirm that their emotions matter, their stories matter, and their dreams are valid.
Redefining Success on Her Own Terms
Mona represents a new generation of women entrepreneurs who build businesses from the heart. She balances creativity with leadership, purpose with profitability, and motherhood with ambition. Her work has been featured across respected platforms including BookTrib, Authority Magazine, SDVoyager, CanvasRebel, Kiddio Magazine, and Scary Monsters Magazine, reflecting both cultural and literary impact.
Rather than following traditional definitions of success, she has created her own path rooted in service, storytelling, and meaningful human connection.
A Legacy of Kindness
Alongside her son, Michael Blade, a young published author himself, Mona continues to show that storytelling is not just about books. It is about shaping how children see themselves and the world around them. Through courage, compassion, and vision, she is helping raise a generation that leads with empathy and confidence.
Through her work as a mother, founder, and storyteller, Mona Liza Santos continues to create spaces where children feel safe, understood, and empowered to embrace who they are. In a world that often moves too quickly to notice quiet hearts, her stories offer reassurance and hope, reminding families that kindness begins at home and ripples outward into the community.
Her mission remains simple yet powerful. Every child deserves to grow up knowing they truly matter.
