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.
Since I was five, with the exception of the last two years, I’ve been starting school the first week of September. That’s 25 years of First Days of School. Even now, while I’m still ...Read More
At the beginning of summer, I posted a list of titles I hoped to read this season: Summer Reading List 2013. I didn’t read all the books on the list, but I did get to several. Here are my brief ...Read More
This week marks the second anniversary of Words From the Sowul. It’s come a long way since the first anniversary last year. I went from a niche book-review blog with a Blogger sub-domain name, t...Read More
I love being near water. Oceans, lakes, rivers- they all nourish my soul and replenish my spirit. My dream is to one day live in a house on the coast. I don’t need an actual beach, just a cottag...Read More
If you missed any previous installments, go back to Words From the Sowul and read from Part 1. Someone was pounding on the door, hard. Someone was calling her name. “Kristy! Kristy, are you in the...Read More
If you missed any previous installments, go back to Words From the Sowul and read from Part 1. 8:32. Kristy drove to the supermarket in a high haze of brain fog, nearly missing the turn and cutting ...Read More