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The ABCs of Storytelling for Young Writers

By Jessa R. Sexton and K. Mark Hilliard

ISBN: 978-0999009093

With tips ranging from A to Z, this book helps young writers become better storytellers. From thinking about why they want to be an author, to learning about the elements of character and settings, to realizing everyone gets writer's block—young writers will grow in their craft with the advice and information shared in these pages.

Crowdancing and the Cherokee Storyteller’s Bag

by K. Mark Hilliard

Crowdancing's story is a personal memoir in that it covers portions of my real-life and imaginative-life from before I was born to about age fifteen—all blended together within authentic Cherokee and Irish history, legend, lore, poetry, and fantasy.

The story will take you into the midst of ancient Cherokee ceremonies; into the enchanted lands of faerie and fae and dragon and crow; into the hiding places of the Little-People of the Cherokee; into the homes of the Faerie-Folk of Ireland, and near and far beyond.

These stories will take you into an enchanted world of unseen realms on earth and realms afar; into the lives of The-Cherokee-Real-People, and their real-places; places that once stood within time itself, and some still do; yet by some magical mystical means, these places now transcend both time and space, and the hearer of these stories, along with them.

But that-is-enough . . . for now! Let me begin my first tale. I will pull it from my Bundle-of-Talk; I will draw it from deep within the Storyteller's Bag-the Storyteller's Bag in which all of Crowdancing's stories are held captive, only to be released as the stories are told.

"O-E-A . . . Yah!

What I have said is true.

And I, the Storyteller, do tell this tale."

light By Jessa Rose Sexton ISBN ‎ 978-1734271195

"I want to shine a light so bright on you your darkness runs away." This book is a compilation of forty poems (and one week of devotionals) for you. To peruse. To savor. To return to whenever you wish.

Of Grief and Greatness
Sonnets by Jessa R. Sexton
ISBN 978-0-999-009017

The poems in these pages weren’t written for publication. They weren’t written assuming you’d one day hold this book in your hands. They were the ponderings of my pencil and my heart. Called “brave and beautiful” by one of my pre-readers, this book is a mirror of my mind, reflecting, in an anxious intimacy, both how broken and how hopeful I am.

To complement this sometimes challenging art form, I’ve included concrete devotionals, inspiring coloring pages, a topical index, and brief introductions for each of the twenty-five sonnets. These poems are a journey for us. I’ve walked with them thus far, and now I invite you to walk through them with me.