We make a lot of Cake at Storybelly, and we like sifters. A lot. Lol.
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We make a lot of Cake at Storybelly, and we like sifters. A lot. Lol.
Thank you TLA librarians and other kind folks
Come join me at Storybelly on Substack... all things Deborah Wiles books, and a place to write and discover your own stories. Plus: Cake 🎂 deborahwiles.substack.com
Morning! I wrote about my work in progress at deborahwiles.substack.com
Don’t forget - Founding Membership includes two, one-hour individual writing consults or critiques.
See you there: deborahwiles.substack.com
Founding Members (O Pioneers!): A signed galley + a vintage merch pack from the book’s original launch has your name on it.
Monthly Subscribers: We’ll send you a signed postcard with the cover art from Each Little Bird That Sings.
Annual Subscribers: Watch for a signed galley of Each Little Bird That Sings.
We’ve got a gift from Comfort Snowberger for all who have joined the Storybelly Lab by March 11.
Phew! What a week it's been but I'm thrilled to have you with me at Storybelly. A weekend in the garden awaits...
Freedom Summer book cover with text overlay saying "How my first book, Freedom Summer, came to be"
Green background with white text. Text reads "I was eleven years old in 1964, the year the Civil Rights Act was passed. It took me over 30 years to write Freedom Summer. It took the time it took. Stories are like that. The book I’m working on now has been re-teaching me this, for years… but more on that another day."
Image shows author sitting on steps in front of her house. Text overlay reads "We all have these stories. They live in our hearts, in our minds, and in our bellies – what we know, what we feel, what we can imagine. The moments of our lives, the memories we have of them, and the meaning we give them."
Image shows the author's desk with a notebook, a laptop and screen, and a photo frame that contains a smiling image of the author. Text overlay reads "But more important: what is the story that you would write, should you be given just one? What would that one story be?"
Read the entire story about how my first book began, at Storybelly - deborahwiles.substack.com
See you there!
Our lives are what’s important about us, join me over at Storybelly where we’re creating a #safe, #sustainable reading and writing #community that will grow over time, and… we have time.
Click the link deborahwiles.substack.com to see more!
Merci, my sweet friend. 💜💜
Huge thanks to the INAUGURAL COHORT of The Storybelly Lab! 💛
Check the link deborahwiles.substack.com for more info.
#launchday #storybelly #deborahwilesbooks
🎁 Founding Subscribers (O Pioneers!) receive a signed galley + a vintage merch pack from the book’s original launch. Don’t forget - Founding Membership includes two, one-hour individual writing consults or critiques.
Subscribe to the paid tier of Storybelly on Substack by March 11th for a gift from Comfort Snowberger:
🎁 Annual Subscribers get a signed pre-publication galley of Each Little Bird That Sings
The Storybelly Lab hosts writing-rich posts, in a rotation: canon posts (what books have made you a writer and why/how?? I’ll share mine); in-depth research posts; work-in-progress posts; specific craft posts; and lots of discussion.
If you’re interested in the Storybelly Lab
We’ll work with writing personal narrative, focusing on voice, theme, details and description, structure and form, characterization and how personal narrative moves into fiction, poetry, personal essays and memoir, all in various formats
1 day to go!
We launch Storybelly tomorrow - you can sign up at deborahwiles.substack.com
I can’t wait to welcome you there!
“We walk through the front door together” – Freedom Summer
Click the link deborahwiles.substack.com and find out more – see you there!
I was an essayist first, for regional and national magazines, then a magazine editor, a freelance writer, an oral historian, a radio host, and a novelist. I’ve written picture books for youngest readers and documentary historical novels for all ages.
I traveled the world teaching writing in schools, at conferences, workshops, and in colleges/universities, from elementary schools to high schools, from college students to seniors.
2 days to go! What would Miss Eula say?
You may have been in one of my writing workshops or professional development presentations, as a student or teacher, librarian or bookseller, publisher or parent.
Follow this link deborahwiles.substack.com and find out more – see you there!
For as long as we have been collectively alive on this planet, we have told stories. Before we even had words, we told stories — on the walls of caves, in the dirt, in the sun and stars, in stones and structures, in the food we prepare, the people we love, the struggles we live through.
I want you to tell your story, whether you write it, paint it, draw it, sing it, dance it — whatever form it takes. Telling our stories is how we understand ourselves and how we change the world, a world that is hungry for the human story.
“We are so close now, 3 days to go, mes amis!” – Finesse Schotz
What can you do with Storybelly?
Click on this link biohttps://deborahwiles.substack.com/ to read more - see you there!
I take that messy-glory life and turn it into stories, and I champion others as they do the same. Over at Storybelly, you’ll find me cataloging my personal narrative: struggles in the garden, triumphs at the page, failures in the kitchen, wonders everywhere.
