Imagine trying to herd cats… now give each cat a pen name.

That’s A Heep of Words — my creative universe where three distinct voices chase inspiration, not laser dots.

• Alexandra Heep decodes the mysteries of health and the human body, where science meets intuition.
• Helena Parx travels through gnome groves and gem worlds, crafting tales where magic rewrites the rules.
• Lexa Drane brings comfort and calm to children (and their grown-ups) through gentle stories and coloring adventures — from mindful skunks to humming alpacas.

Together, they make one gloriously uncooperative herd of imagination — and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Please join me on this fantastic journey!

• International Book Giving Day
  February 14 isn’t just about chocolates and roses — it’s also about stories finding new homes.Today marks International Book Giving Day, a quietly powerful celebration built on a simple idea: books are meant to be shared. How International Book Giving Day Began International Book Giving Day was founded in 2012 as a grassroots effort to… Read more: International Book Giving Day
• World Read Aloud Day On February 4
  When Stories Had Voices Before They Had Pages Before books were objects you could shelve, stories were events. They happened in breath and rhythm, around fires and tables, in fields at dusk and rooms lit by a single flame. World Read Aloud Day isn’t just a celebration of literacy—it’s a quiet nod to the oldest… Read more: World Read Aloud Day On February 4
• “Inspire Your Heart with Art” Day
  Today, January 31, is Inspire Your Heart with Art Day, which is delightfully vague—and honestly, that’s the point. Art is old. Really old. Older than writing, money, and older than the idea that someone could tell you your work is “interesting but derivative.” It predates galleries and critics. Before the phrase mixed media made people… Read more: “Inspire Your Heart with Art” Day
• National Escape Day
  Today, January 30, is National Escape Day, which sounds at first like a novelty holiday invented by someone who wanted permission to take a long lunch and quietly disappear. But the longer I sit with it, the more I realize this day explains everything about why I write books, build worlds, and occasionally invent entire… Read more: National Escape Day
• When Life Freezes Over
• Book Publisher’s Day
  How Small Publishers Actually Make Books Happen If you imagine publishing as a velvet-roped world of martinis and mysterious phone calls, small publishers would like a word. They usually wear socks that don’t match, drink coffee that’s gone cold, and argue lovingly over commas—because someone really cares about your book. On Book Publisher’s Day, celebrated… Read more: Book Publisher’s Day