About Savannah

Hello, my name is Savannah Kathryn Jezowski, and I am so excited to meet you!

What I love more than anything in the world: A quiet evening with good conversation and a cat. Yes, the conversation is often with the cat.

I am no princess. No palaces and devoted servants for me, but rather a simple and honest living. I live in southern Michigan, which makes me a Troll (for those of you unfamiliar with Michigan, that is because I live below the Bridge, not over it). I am married to a knight in shining armor, who fell in love with me when I was young and stupid and married me when I was older and, honestly, no less stupid. I collect music boxes, faeries and cats. My favorite book is Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, and my favorite movie is BBC's North and South (based on the novel by Elisabeth Gaskell.) If I wasn't already married to the perfect man, I would marry Mr. Thornton.

I do so love a dark and tragic hero.

I worked in a cafeteria to help put myself through college, although I never had the opportunity to graduate. I have dabbled in fast food management, professional cleaning, retail, and banking. My dream is to write full time. Someday I will share with you the challenges of managing a full time career, a man and a household while trying to break into the world of publishing. I often feel like Jo March, writing dreadful little stories and selling my hair to pay the bills. But that, as they say, is a tale for another day.

I wrote my first story when I was in elementary school. At the time, I did not even know what a paragraph was, so you can imagine how stunning this little story was. I keep it in a box, inside another box, buried beneath a pile of other boxes. Occasionally, when I am nostalgic, I like to take it out and wince and thank God that He gave us the potential for improvement. I studied Commercial Writing at Pensacola Christian College, where I had two short stories published in the student publication of Fountains. I also took a Creative Writing Course through Stratford Career Institute, which finally taught me the benefits of the Short Story. Up until this point, I was a wild fan of long, meandering, terrible novels which, I hope, will not be discovered after my death. After finishing my course with Stratford, I published two short stories in online magazines, one in Ray Gun Revival and the other in Mindflights.

Then I ran into this wonderful book called Heartless and met its author, Anne Elisabeth Stengl. Through her amazing mentoring program, my writing took another leaping bound. She has a gift for honing in on areas of opportunity while simultaneously inspiring you to work even harder. Anne Elisabeth also inspired me to write my first novella, After, for the Five Glass Slippers competition last year. My experience writing for her fairy tale collections has been completely positive. I have learned so much and enjoyed every minute of it. I can’t wait to read the wonderful stories that will be selected for this year’s Five Enchanted Roses. For more information, check out:  http://www.rooglewoodpress.com/fairy-tale-collections. I hear the winners will be announced come March. I can barely stand to wait! The stories chosen last year were spectacular. My favorite was The Moon Master’s Ball by Clara Diane Thompson. What was your favorite?

If you are new to my blog, I would love to meet you! Please tell me a bit about yourself, what books you like, and if you are writing anything currently. If you have any questions for me, I will gladly try to answer them! I am eager to meet other writers like myself with hopes of networking together in the future. If you have a blog of your own, please include the link and I will follow you!

Don’t forget to check out my other pages for sneak peeks and links to some of my published work!