Abbi Lee - March 2026 Featured Author

Abbi Lee has been published in multiple magazines and is proud to announce Home Town Treasure Hunt as the second installment in the Geocache Club series. Outside of reading and writing, Abbi enjoys cooking, baking, geocaching for hidden treasures, and going on adventures with her husband and two daughters. She can be found via her website at abbileebooks.wordpress.com.

Congrats on your recently released middle grade novel, Geocache Club #2: Hometown Treasure Hunt, which releases this month. Tell us a little about it.

Hometown Treasure Hunt is the second novel in the Geocache Club series. In the first book, Ghost Town Treasure Hunt, sixth grader Layton Clark teams up with the new girl in town, Sherry Carson, who also happens to be a geocaching enthusiast. Geocaching becomes Layton’s new favorite hobby, and together, they uncover a century-old mystery tied to a nearby ghost town, a legendary outlaw, and a string of hidden treasures left by someone known only as RBT. 

In the sequel, they create an after-school geocache club, and the friends set their sights on transforming a hiking trail into a geocaching adventure. But while they’re finding new treasures, discovering curious cases of yarn-bombings all over town, and get assigned an out-of-this-world mission, Layton and Sherry’s friendship starts to shift. Layton starts to wonder if even his closest bonds are beginning to unravel.

How did you get started? Did you always want to be a children's author?

I've always been a big reader, and as a kid, I liked to write songs and make up stories. I even had a journal so I could interview people about events. However, at that age, I never thought that people could just become book authors. In my mind, authors just existed as that and since I wasn't already an author and I didn't know any authors, it just never crossed my mind that it was something you could choose to do as an actual career. I wanted to be a teacher ever since I was little and that's what I did, but I left that profession when my oldest was born so that I could stay at home with her. She loved to read, so we would go through picture book after picture book. When I was pregnant with our second, I had an idea for a picture book, and that sparked this journey to becoming an author.

How have you stayed connected to the writing community?

I stay connected to the writing community through active involvement in SCBWI Kansas/Missouri as the PAL Coordinator and with the Kansas Authors Club, where I serve as treasurer. These connections are important to me because writing can feel isolating, and having a supportive community provides encouragement, accountability, and inspiration. 

What do you love about being a writer?

I love that I can let my imagination run wild and explore topics that interest me, then turn those ideas into stories that invite readers along for the adventure. There’s something magical about starting with a simple “what if” and watching it grow into a whole world.

What are you currently working on? Anything else upcoming you'd like us to know about?

The manuscript for the third and final book in the Geocache Club series is with my editor and currently has a release date in 2027. The Geocache Club is heading to Colorado for a national geocaching convention, and Sherry thinks they'll find the Prairie Springs treasure while they’re there. We'll see if she's right!