I'm Savannah, and I'm a professional storyteller.
I help authors transform their jumbled memories, loose threads of thought, and otherwise unorganized genius into compelling narratives.
As a ghostwriter, editor, and publishing veteran with over a decade of industry experience, I have helped hundreds of authors along their publishing journeys. Before I took the leap into full-time freelance ghostwriting, I previously served as Director of Publishing for Ballast Books, and am one-half of the co-founding team of Haunted Waters Press, an independent publisher of literary fiction and poetry.
Throughout my career, I have contributed to 100+ published books within a broad range of genres. I’ve had the pleasure of working on artful coffee table books, both engaging fiction and groundbreaking nonfiction, and countless incredible children’s picture books. As a ghostwriter, I have found my home in writing memoirs. While I plan to one day announce my own solo debut novel, my professional passion lies in collaborating with those who have meaningful stories to tell and need someone to help bring them to the page.
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WHEN WE COULD NOT SEE THE MOON
A family cast in darkness. A daughter in an unimaginable situation. And the guiding light of faith that carried them through.
When Jon and Tracy Willems’ daughter Hanna ventured across the world for what was supposed to be an exciting year of working abroad in Egypt, things quickly took an unexpected turn, and the family found themselves in the middle of a waking nightmare. Falsely apprehended at customs for suspected drug trafficking, Hanna was placed in an Egyptian jail under unthinkable conditions with no tether to the outside world. As Jon and Tracy struggled to put together the pieces of where their daughter had gone and what horrible fate might await her, Hanna sat thousands of miles away in a crowded and filthy cell. So began Jon and Tracy’s fight for their daughter’s freedom. But they were not alone.
What could have easily been a story of a family’s hardship and terror is instead a story of God’s grace during their most trying days. At its core, When We Could Not See the Moon is about a family cast in darkness amid the unimaginable situation Hanna found herself in. It’s a story of how faith united people across the world and worked through them to provide a guiding light throughout the journey.
Though names, locations, and other key elements have been changed or fictionalized to protect those who worked so fiercely to bring Hanna home, the Willems’ story is otherwise entirely based in fact. Encompassing the perspectives of parents Jon and Tracy Willems, sister Taylor, and Hanna herself, this harrowing true story captures all the defining characteristics of humanity: despair, distrust, and suffering but also faith, hope, compassion, and community. Dynamic and engaging with excerpts from the journal Hanna kept throughout this unbelievable series of events, When We Could Not See the Moon will speak to parents, people of faith, warriors for justice—and anyone who finds themselves lost in the dark, desperately searching for the light.
Ballast Books, September 2024
