Description: Joanie Strulowitz is a writer and a storyteller who says, If my words can make you laugh, feel safer, and help keep the craving for the arts alive, then they will have served their purpose.
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Joanie Strulowitz - Writer Home Background Joanie's Take YOUTH SERUM AND THE FOUNTAIN OF ART - Excerpts Children's Fiction Photos Guest Book Contact Me Who I Am and What I Do My first serious venture into writing was at age four, when I wrote a love letter to a little boy named Timmy. Several years later, I submitted my short story, "Palettes and Brushes", to Jack and Jill Magazine.
Today, I joke that writing takes me inside myself, the other arts take me outside myself, and together they keep me sane. But I'm actually not joking. Because when I was growing up, I was an observer who didn't fit in. So I thought something was wrong with me. Writing, books, and all of the arts helped make sense of life.
Now, if I were ever stranded alone on a desert island? I would write on cave walls with a rock, sing to the moon, and dance by the thunder of the waves. Now, I seek to be the voice I was looking for when I was growing up, so the lessons I learned can help others find the gifts in their differences . . . and believe in themselves and their dreams. It's why I'm so excited to be bringing you Ballad, The Light Follower (Book 1) . . . a seventeen-year-old Light Follower and visionary, whose "voice" suddenly sta