Everward Storyworks is pleased to welcome veteran writer and storyteller John DeRossett to its growing creative family.
For more than three decades, DeRossett has worked with the written word in one form or another — as a journalist, editor, freelance writer, author, and storyteller. His work has appeared in publications and outlets including Family Handyman, Taste of Home, GMC, and SFGate. Now, he brings that experience, along with an expanding collection of original projects, to Everward Storyworks.
For DeRossett, storytelling has never been simply about putting words on a page. It is about preserving memories, exploring the experiences that shape people’s lives, and finding the human story behind events both large and small.
That philosophy is particularly evident in his current book project, November Rain: The River Came at Night, an account inspired by the devastating November 1985 flood that struck Rowlesburg, West Virginia, and communities throughout the region.
The project has become more than a recollection of a natural disaster. Drawing upon personal memories, historical research, photographs, and the recollections of people who experienced the flood firsthand, DeRossett is working to preserve a piece of Appalachian history and the stories of the people who lived through it.
His other work ranges across fiction, memoir-inspired storytelling, historical projects, and screenwriting.
DeRossett’s association with Everward Storyworks represents something larger than the addition of another writer. It reflects the purpose behind Everward itself.
Stories matter.
Some entertain us. Some challenge us. Others preserve people, places, and moments that might otherwise disappear with time. Everward Storyworks was created as a home for those kinds of stories — whether they ultimately take the form of a book, screenplay, film, documentary, or another creative medium.
DeRossett’s work fits naturally within that mission.
After more than 30 years of professional writing, he remains interested not simply in what makes a good story, but in why a story deserves to be told in the first place.
That question will help guide his future projects with Everward Storyworks.
Among them are additional books, screenplays, historical works, and adaptations of existing stories for the screen. Some will reach into the past. Others will be entirely fictional. But each will share the same underlying goal: creating stories with something meaningful at their center.
For DeRossett, joining Everward Storyworks is both a continuation and a new beginning — an opportunity to bring decades of writing experience together under one creative banner.
And there are many more stories still waiting to be told.
Welcome to Everward, John.
