Author: heathercmorris

  • First Stories!! Featuring Amber Hendricks

    First Stories!! Featuring Amber Hendricks

    Hello friends and welcome back to the First Stories series, where I talk to writers (published, unpublished, agented, unagented) about their first story – the one that really compelled them to pursue writing and publishing. The previous interviews from 2022 with Bonnie Kelso, Laura Zimmermann, Chelsea Lin Wallace, and Valerie Bolling have been incredible! I…

  • First Stories!! Featuring Valerie Bolling!

    First Stories!! Featuring Valerie Bolling!

    Welcome back, dear readers! Thank you for taking a bit of your time to “listen in” to another First Stories conversation – this time with the amazing Valerie Bolling. She has been releasing picture book after picture book recently! Huge congrats, Valerie! Beginning with LET’S DANCE in 2020, she and her agent, James McGowan have…

  • The Hindsight 2020 Anthology

    The Hindsight 2020 Anthology

    Sometime in the last year, I stumbled across a call for stories from average people around the world. All navigating life during the pandemic. A select few of these submissions would be compiled in a hardcover volume documenting the odd, the authentic, the diverse, the bizarre “normal” world during the pandemic. From the “About” section…

  • First Stories!! Featuring Chelsea Lin Wallace

    First Stories!! Featuring Chelsea Lin Wallace

    Hello friends and welcome back to the First Stories series, where I talk to writers (published, unpublished, agented, unagented) about their first story – the one that really compelled them to pursue writing and publishing. 2022 started off with a bang, with some great interviews from Bonnie Kelso and Laura Zimmermann – I learned so…

  • Guest Writer at Cardinal Rule Press!

    Guest Writer at Cardinal Rule Press!

    I am honored to be the guest writer for today’s Cardinal Rule Press blog!! If you haven’t heard of them, CRP is a small press dedicated to realistic fiction for kids – picture books only – that highlight character traits like perseverance, patience, and kindness. Check out my post and other entries on their blog…