Leanne Sowul is a writer of novels, short stories, magazine articles, and children's books. Her short story, "Amish Girl," was published in the Spring 2014 issue of Confrontation literary journal. She has also recently written articles for Hudson Valley Parent magazine, and guest posts for American Scar Stories and Words of Wisdom from the Female Yoda.
Leanne is currently seeking agents to represent her powerful 88,000-word, multiple-perspective historical fiction novel, Triangle Fire, about the events surrounding New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911 and the preceding Shirtwaist Strike of 20,000 in 1909.
Along with her children's book writing partner, Cristen Dimas, Leanne is also seeking publishers for their unique series on the ups and downs of learning musical instruments, the "Miss Mulberry Music" books.
Other projects-in-progress include a nonfiction book about living life with a cancer survivor's perspective; a YA novel about a group of friends who decide that they can "raise themselves" by following the principles of a popular children's book; and varied short stories.
Leanne lives in the Hudson Valley area of New York with her husband and two-year-old son. In addition to being a writer (or perhaps vice versa), she is an elementary band teacher and flutist.
She is proud to be a survivor of childhood cancer.
On Monday night, my left knee started to swell up. It quickly became very painful to walk, and by Tuesday morning I was confined to the couch. My husband and I worried about how to best take care of t...Read More
I have decided that our “productive” part of the week will be Monday-Thursday. Friday-Sunday will be a bit slower, and there will be no homeschool activities except what Edwin wants to do ...Read More
The best form of self-care is monitoring what I put into my body and my mind. I can’t be in a healthy, happy place either physically or mentally unless I curate my inputs, eliminating unhealthy ...Read More
I tried hard to stay on routine, and keep my kids on theirs, for the first few days of the week. But on Friday and Saturday, I lost my stamina and decided to have a couple of days that were more relax...Read More
I had all the best intentions of getting up early today, but last night I was woken up twice by Eleanor. The first was to give her water and Tylenol– her fever was back up again. The second time...Read More
It’s not really day 1. This all started on Friday, when at the very end of our district’s conference day, we were notified that all schools in our county would be closed for two weeks. I s...Read More