Author: heathercmorris
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First Stories…Featuring Cynthia Mackey
Welcome back to another installment of First Stories! After taking a break last year, it’s wonderful to be chatting with so many KidLit writers, specifically picture book writers. As the way many children are introduced to reading – and art! – picture books hold a special place in my heart. They are a unique partnership…
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First Stories…Featuring Melissa Stoller
Today is World Read Aloud Day!! It’s the perfect day to grab your favorite book and your favorite person (or people!) and read a story! It’s also the perfect day to talk about a first story…the one that made a writer want to keep writing. Today, I’m thrilled to welcome Melissa Stoller to First Stories!…
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View From the Writing Desk: An Author’s Year 2025
Hello, dear readers, I hope your new year is off to a spectacular start! If you’re new to my site, I’m Heather Morris (not the author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, not THAT Heather Morris, that’s another writing story for another day) and I write a little bit of everything. Fiction, nonfiction, children’s, adult, but…
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Resources for a New Year of Writing
Hello friends! I’ve heard from many of you over the past few years. Many asking questions something like this: I’d like to write a picture book. How do I get started? Or I’ve got this idea knocking around in my head. How do I know if it’s any good? So you want to take time…
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A Few Little Poems
I’ve been writing poetry my whole life. But I rarely share it. Until now. Hopefully, this small sampling will be the first of a fairly regular set of poetry-related posts. In keeping with my love of writing for kids, most of these poems are geared toward what kids love, think about…worry about. I’ll leave it…
Heather C. Morris 