Big Feelings, Brave Friends with Georgie and Bug – Book I
Georgie & Bug and the Noisy Barn
When strange sounds echo from the barn, Bug must learn that listening closely can be braver than barking first.
BOOKS
Stories that make room for wonder and weight
Fantasy and fiction shaped by imagination, care, and consequence.
These stories explore what happens when endurance is mistaken for strength, when silence protects the wrong things, and when unlikely people are asked to carry what others refuse to see.
Big Feelings, Brave Friends with Georgie and Bug – Book II
Georgie & Bug and the Chickens That Charged
When a flurry of feathers feels like an attack, Bug discovers that loud and fast doesn’t always mean dangerous.
The Storykeepers’ Daughter – Book I
The Storykeeper’s Daughter
A mysterious young woman with a fractured heritage becomes the living key in a rising war against a darkness that does not conquer—it erases.
The Storykeepers’ Daughter – Book II
The Light Remembers
As kingdoms fracture and ancient powers awaken, the only weapon against the encroaching void is a light forged from memory, sacrifice, and the stubborn refusal to yield.
The Storykeepers’ Daughter – Book III
The Shard and Shadow
With the world breaking and the darkness taking form, a queen and an ancient king must bind crystal, crown, and cost to stand against annihilation.
The Hollow Places – Book I
On Monsters and the Missing
After a young fantasy author survives a supernatural encounter in the woods, she discovers the monster she met is real—and that the real predators may not be the ones she thought.
The Hollow Places – Book II
Calypso’s Children
When a dancer Ser once shadowed for research calls her in fear—and then vanishes—Ser is pulled into a stolen art ring where exploited women are disposable assets and the real monsters wear collector’s gloves.
The Hollow Places – Book III
Misunderstood Monsters
As Ser reframes folklore’s villains as scapegoats for human violence, a string of ritualistic killings forces her to defend a small town’s mascot from becoming the next convenient monster.
ART
Art as a way of noticing
Paintings, prints, and objects shaped by attention and practice.
Some pieces are held in the studio.
Some travel into daily life.
All of them begin the same way — paint on canvas.
Original Works
One-of-a-kind paintings, ceramics, and studio pieces.
These works are held for in-person viewing through studio visits and select exhibitions. Each is made slowly, by hand, and meant to be encountered directly.
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Art carried into daily life.
Candles, bookmarks, lamps, and small objects that hold original paintings and studio patterns — made to be used, handled, and lived with.
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Art in motion.
Limited designs translated into clothing and small-batch studio apparel—meant to move beyond the studio, into classrooms, gatherings, and wherever the work continues.
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Shared practices
These aren’t classes. They’re structured spaces to practice attention, leadership, and creative work together.
Each gathering is designed as a working session — small groups, guided prompts, and real conversation. You won’t just receive information. You’ll participate, reflect, and build capacity in real time.
Spots are limited. Registration and ticketing are handled through our studio shop.
STORIES
In the studio
Notes from the middle of the work. A glimpse into process and practice.
This is where ideas take shape — before they become books, events, or finished paintings. Studio notes, readings, experiments, and reflections from inside the work.
FEATURED STORY
The Jester’s Grin: What This Story Is Really About
A behind-the-scenes reflection on endurance, leadership, and why this world began with a jester.
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Real-time painting from The Storykeeper's Daughter: Battle from book 02, video 02
Watch the author of The Light Remembers paint a battle scene from Book 2 of The Storykeeper’s Daughter — second layer, filmed in real time inside the studio.
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Persephone’s Flower — Painting Overview
A look at the layered process behind Persephone and Hades, and how mythology informs studio practice.
Watch →Continue the Practice — New studio notes are shared regularly, including readings, process reflections, and conversations on leadership and creative work.
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Leadership is a creative act.
Hannah Toney, Ed.D., is an educator and leadership practitioner who builds stories and studio work alongside her professional practice. With decades of experience in education and systems leadership, she brings a structural lens to everything she makes—whether that’s a novel, a painting, or a room full of adults learning how to think differently. This website gathers those threads in one place.
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