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.

Judith L. Roth

 

Judith was born loving books, in a Southern California beach town that was apparently on the wrong coast to see a mermaid.  She went to college for music and added an English degree when she realized she couldn't live without writing. She discovered her soul mate at college. They began working together in youth ministry and went off to seminary together for graduate degrees—a Master's of Theology for Judith. With that accomplished, the art of wording took the reins again and Judith took an editing job at Gospel Light.

When the family moved to Indiana, she could stay home and be a mother to two sons and be a writer at the same time, with some piano teaching and ASL interpreting thrown in for good measure.

Judith did freelance writing for Bible studies, curriculum, and devotionals. She and her husband had several dozen children's songs published. About a dozen of her poems were published in various magazines. But her passion was for children's fiction. Finally, after many years of submitting, she had a short story published in a magazine. And a few years later, her first picture book was published. She now has six picture books and one middle grade verse novel traditionally published. Her most recent picture books are Venetian Lullaby (Page Street Books, 2021), Hiding Baby Moses (Flyaway Books, 2021, a JLG selection, shortlisted for Indiana Author Awards), and Cadence and Kittenfish: A Mermaid Tale (Starry Forest Books, 2022).

Judith spends her free time reading, traveling, kayaking, cat-wrangling, and enjoying music and nature and family (especially those two wild granddaughters). She lives on a river bank in northern Indiana with her husband and three cats.