Storm Literary Agency

Boutique literary agency representing quality literature from exceptional authors and illustrators

First, there was a  teacher who loved books almost as much as she loved little children. Then, there was an artist who loved pirates, almost as much as he loved cats. As it turns out, that artist could also write, and that teacher loved the pirate stories he wrote. And she shared those stories with the children she taught. The children loved the pirate stories; they also loved the cats. They wanted more stories with pirates and cats. They also wanted an adventure. And the stories gave them so many adventures. And that is that: Storm Literary Agency came about because it needed to. The children requested it. And so did the cats. 

Storm Literary Agency welcomes submissions from unique and talented authors and illustrators, those who are not afraid to embrace their capacity to teach, to entertain, to engage and to honor people, young and old, who hopefully, will be changed by the work represented here.

Francisca Staines

 

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Francisca was born and grew up in Mexico City but spent her summers in Chihuahua (northern Mexico) alongside her grandmother, who instilled in her a deep love for arid lands, storytelling, and science. Loves that followed her to college. She became an oceanographer and worked for many years in Baja California, researching biodiversity. The people she met and the places she discovered in this fantastic peninsula inspired many a short story and still populate the books she writes today.

Later on, she attended graduate school in Los Angeles, California. After obtaining her doctorate, she became a modern-nomad, travelling the world, from Canada to France, from Denmark to Belgium, always searching for clues to reconstruct the history of the oceans.

Yet, her love for writing never dwindled and, by weaving memories and magic, she recreates reality in stories for children, eager to show them a side of her native country that rarely makes it into the news.

At present, she lives in a small town south of Brussels, sharing her days with her lovely husband and two hyperactive dogs.