Storystorm 2025 Day 27: Amanda Davis Takes a Meditation Break
by Amanda Davis
“It was only when my time and energy to createwere severely limited that I realisedhow central they were to me as...
Storystorm 2025 Day 28: Emily Peace Harrison Makes Music Her Muse
by Emily Peace Harrison
In the realm of children’s literature, rhyming picture books hold a special place in my heart. It is just...
Storystorm 2025 Day 29: Shari Becker Needs Accountability
by Shari Becker
For so many of us, January represents an opportunity to reset. We make all kinds of promises to ourselves: I’m going...
Storystorm 2025 Day 30: Anna Raff Likes to Party
by Anna Raff
“Wooo-hooo!”
That’s a direct quote from yours truly, the moment I read an email from my art director, offering me the opportunity...
Storystorm 2025 Bonus Day: Tara Lazar Questions Everything
I have questions.
Musical notes are named after the first seven letters of the alphabet—A thru G—but when we learn to play the piano,...
Sign the 2025 Storystorm Pledge!
The 2025 Storystorm Pledge is now closed.
If you’ve been participating in Storystorm all month, you’ve been generating riots, riches and reams of ideas!
Luckily...
Jena Benton’s Storystorm Success Story: Let Your Ideas Change (plus a giveaway)
by Jena Benton
Now that you’re done with Storystorm and have fistfuls of ideas, I bet you’re wondering what to do with all of...
Jane Yolen’s a Child Again…in JANIE WRITES A PLAY (plus a giveaway)
by Heidi EY Stemple
My new book begins, The night before play rehearsals began, Janie couldn’t sleep.
It is now just days before my new...
Storystorm Hiatus…Plus an Original Story to Read While You Wait!
So as typically happens this time of year, I’ve been sick. So I’m just going to chalk February up to a loss and...
SIDEWALK CHALK Cover Reveal and Giveaway with Jen Fier Jasinski
by Jen Fier Jasinski
After only three months and six drafts writing SIDEWALK CHALK, I received a critique from a big-name agent that said:...