Join us for this incredible author talk with children's author Joann Howeth!
Born in Conrad, Joann has lived in Montana most of her life – a short stint as a Navy wife took her from coast to coast before returning to Helena, her hometown, to raise her daughters. She graduated from Carroll College with a degree in English Literature and was primed to teach high school English, but the job market was flooded in Montana at that time, so she changed directions and found employment in the jewelry industry where she spent many happy years, first as a salesperson and then as a gemologist and designer/goldsmith. As that career started to wind down, her love of creative writing was reawakened by the births of her granddaughters and many glorious trips to the children’s stacks at the library.
Soon Joann was taking classes and participating in workshops.
She studied with a writing coach, joined the Society for Children’s
Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) serving as both Assistant Regional Advisor and Regional Advisor for the Montana Chapter, met other writers, participated in critique groups, and kept writing. Eventually she started querying agents, but that began to resemble running on a hamster wheel, so in 2022 she took the plunge and found the hybrid publisher, Cherish Editions located
in the UK, for her debut picture book, SOMETIMES. Her second book, THE MOLLYS B., is also a hybrid published here in the US by Blue Balloon Books.
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