Lorna and Jana
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer - Filmmaker |
| Location | Lebanon Missouri, Tucson Arizona, United States |
| Introduction | Lorna Kerin Beall has always loved "old-timey" kids' books. She shared this love with her six children by reading her picture books, "Oly the Owl" and, "The Magic Bucket" in their classrooms. Other old-timey picture books followed, "Goose Steps for Andy" and, "Pastor Friederich's Yellow Britches." Inspired by real life stories of her Finnish-American family who homesteaded on the S. Dakota prairie, she has written several middle-grade novels including, "Wormy Bean Winter" for which she won the 2010 Missouri SCBWI mentorship, and "Model T Biscuits." Her daughter, Jana Segal, critiqued several drafts which inspired her to work with her mother to adapt it into a script that won first place at the Santa Clarita Family Film Festival and Moondance short screenplay competitions. The mother-daughter team eventually hope to produce the movie version. Jana recently finished writing a comedy/fantasy set in modern day Tombstone called, "Behind the OK Corral." Jana has also produced, written, and directed other shorts including, "Desert Angel" about a pioneer couple lost at Christmas. She performs a storytelling version called, "The Christmas Guest." |
| Interests | writing, screenwriting, playwriting, filmmaking, children's books, history, historical fiction, pioneers, settlers, Finnish heritage, Tombstone, homesteading, family history, Finnish, children's fiction, Finnish recipes, South Dakota, Model T |
| Favorite Movies | Sweet Land, The Help, Meek's Cutoff, The Notebook, The Great Debaters, It's a Wonderful Life, Shawshank Redemption, The Help, Shindler's List, The Secret Life of Bees, Pleasantville, The Piano, The Color Purple, Fried Green Tomatoes, Me and Orson Wells, The King's Speech, To Kill a Mockingbird, Remember the Titans, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Norma Ray, Dances with Wolves, Get Low, Places in the Heart, Frontier House, Pioneer Quest, Cross Creek, The Wilderness Family |
| Favorite Music | LORNA'S FAVORITE WRITING BOOKS:, Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market, The Writer's Market, Children's Writer Guide to 2011, Christian Writers' Market Guide, Writing from Within, How to Write and Sell Historical Fiction, Writing for Children & Teenagers, Your Life as Story, Turning Life into Fiction, How to Write a Children's Book and Get it Published, The Spying Heart, Guide to Writing for Children, Creating Characters Kids Will Love, Roget's International Thesaurus: English Words and Phrases, The Children's Picture Book, How to Write and Illustrate Children's Picture Books and Get Them Published |
| Favorite Books | Bible, Taylor's Story Bible, These is my Words, Little House on the Prairie, Poor is Just a Starting Place, Our Only May Amelia, Oh Pioneers, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey, Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters of Elizabeth Corey 1909-1919, Nellie Cashman: Frontier Angel, Little Women, To Kill a Mockingbird, Heidi, Sarah's Quilt, Sarah Plain and Tall, Christy, Rose O’Neil - The Girl Who Loved to Draw, Letter of a Woman Homesteader, Elijah of Buxton, The Middle Moffat, Young Pioneers, Caroline's Courage, Counting on Grace, Caddie Woodlawn, Out of the Dust, Goodnight Mister Tom, The Secret School, My Daniel, Ruby Holler, Annie Oakley: Little Sure Shot, The Color Purple, I Know Why a Cage Bird Sings, A Bride for Anna's Papa, Esperanza Rising |