Savannah Bloom
Shy Mother
My name isn't Savannah Bloom. I don't like the idea of hiding behind a pen name, but I'd rather keep a low profile, keeping my work life separate from my personal life. In reality, I'm a mother of three rambunctious boys (are there other kinds?) and a wife of a wonderful storyteller - whose stories I often grab for my own use! I live in the suburbs, go to church, and home-school three excellent students.
My stories all started by my sons' bedside. My first son would often give me (or my husband) two or three things to include in the nightly bedtime story. From there, we would need to weave an original tale from our weary minds, attempting to input his requests with an entertaining narrative AND, if we were especially motivated, a moral that would reinforce a character trait we thought he needed to work on. This grew taxing as his requests were along the lines of 1) Ryder from Paw Patrol, 2) a football, and 3) poop. Challenging! But from there, the story, "The Good Goop," was born! Thankfully, we changed poop to goop - but we're still working on eliminating that word from his vocabulary!
Now that the books have found an audience, I hope to put more time and effort into expanding the collection to help equip weary (but motivated) parents and caregivers to raise wonderful, upright children who shine like stars in the universe.