Big Sur Children’s Writing Workshop

Years ago, author Jeff Stone attended the Big Sur Children’s Writing Workshop with the beginning of what would become his The Five Ancestors series for middle-school readers. At the workshop, he met literary agent Laura Rennert as well as an editor at Random House.

Then, he landed a six-figure book deal.

“He’s our biggest success story,” says Andrea Brown, executive director of the workshop and president of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. “But we have