Made with Heart,
Crafted with Purpose

Swankeeper Publishing is led by one family, with a handful of stories on their way to becoming books, audio, and visual experiences, and a long list still to tell.

The world of the Fairway Friends began when F.C. Salas picked up his first golf club at the age of four, and he has played on courses around the world ever since. It has been taking shape all along, built on decades of fairway experiences and life events. Now it arrives as Once Upon a Golf Swing, the first adventure in the Fairway Friends Adventures series.

F.C. Salas writes the Fairway Friends Adventures. Cristina C. Cortes brings those adventures to life as Art Director: the illustrations, the music, the audiobook. They work as a family team, and every creative decision here is theirs.

We believe a children’s book earns its place by being wanted, not by being good for you. If a child does not ask for it a second time, nothing else about it matters much.

So we write for delight first, and let the virtues travel along, the way they do in any story worth reading more than once. We also write for the person holding the book. Reading aloud is one of the few things a grown-up does that returns them to their own childhood, and we would rather that moment be worth having.

Thank you for reading with your little one. It is the whole reason any of this exists.

With gratitude to Nora and Phil Stringer, who inspired us to create all of this.