Former NFL and University of Kentucky running back Artose Pinner knows about overcoming adversity, whether it was growing up with serve asthma, having to wait until his senior season to get his shot at playing running back at UK, then breaking his ankle just months before the NFL Draft, and even becoming a children’s book author he has been faced with many new challenges and obstactes to overcome, but no matter how hard or difficult the challenge he never surrenderd or gave up, he always believed in himself. He now wants to utilze reading as a way to share with kids the importance of believing in yourself when faced with adveristy and never giving up with his new children’s book series “Willville” He believes that the Willvilles series will encourage and inspire young readers to recognize that they too, can fulfill their greatest dreams and overcome any obstacle as long as they believe in themselves and never give up.