A Storyboard Life
Kristin Fellows storyteller, Amy SutoHow $20 led to two hundred documentary film adventures: the journey of a creative person
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Production Stills from "A Storyboard Life"
Just for fun, here are a few production shots from Story Frame 58—My First Film: A Woman Named Hello.
Above: cinematographer Richard Chisolm films Moni Taylor (the woman named ‘Hello’) walking through the Kenilworth neighborhood with her s...
I Wrote This Book for You...
Tadah! 🥳
I have created my very first book trailer for A Storyboard Life!
It’s a little glitchy, imperfect, and low-tech—just like me. 😆
It was most definitely created by a human (nothing artificial about it.) But I hope it gets my mes...
"A Storyboard Life" receives Editor's Starred Review!
“A Storyboard Life” just received an Editor’s Starred Review (a ⚡️ in this case) in the highly influential American book review magazine, BookLife!
Simply put, this is everything a writer dreams about: an editor who ‘gets’ you, sees what y...
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How "A Storyboard Life" Eerily Mirrors the Tale of Cinderella
“A Storyboard Life” is a real-life Cinderella story, but with a career at the end instead of a prince. Well, there was a prince, but he offered more of a glass ceiling than a glass slipper. Shoes were definitely involved, however.
And ther...
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From cavorting with a dragon in Finland to hiking with elves in Iceland––stories about the adventures of storytelling. Author of "A Storyboard Life: From $20 to Two Hundred Documentary Film Adventures" (2026).
\ud83d\udc69\ud83d\udcbb writer of bestselling books & I run ✍️ Make Writing Your Job (with our writing job board) and \ud83d\udca1 Sutoscience (my creative experiments on Substack and beyond as a writer) \ud83c\udf31 I'm based in San Francisco and loving the parks and the fog
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