A Heep of Words: Books by Alexandra Heep, Helena Parx, Lexa Drane

Category: Miscellaneous

  • Happy Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts

    A Completely Appropriate Celebration for Fiction Writers Today, December 12, is the Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts, a holiday that sounds suspiciously made up but is, in fact, rigorously observed by anyone who writes fiction or poetry and has ever stared at a sentence thinking, If I leave this in, people will have questions. Writing does…

  • Happy Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day

    Depending on where you live, you’re reading this in a different moment than I wrote it — hours into my future, or hours behind my present. That’s its own quiet form of time travel. So, in the spirit of Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day, (happening on December 8), I’m hopping across those time…

  • Happy Small Business Saturday

    Support Actually Small Indie Authors — Because Apparently 499 Employees Still Counts as “Small” I woke up this morning to a parade of “Support Small Business!” ads… only to realize half of them were from companies with enough square footage to qualify as their own weather systems. I mean — 300+ employees?Corporate parking lots?A “brand…

  • Press Releases: Not Just for Stephen King Anymore

    If you had told me years ago that one day I’d be sitting at my desk writing a press release — not for a celebrity, not for a blockbuster, but for me — I would’ve laughed, checked the calendar for April Fool’s Day, and gone back to whatever I was doing. Because in my mind,…

  • National Black Cat Day

    Reflections from Princess Gracie, Narrator, Muse, and Reluctant Cover Model Greetings, dear readers and fellow admirers of feline refinement.It is I — Princess Gracie, royal household manager, literary narrator, and muse-in-residence for the Gnomeward Bound series. You might know me as the voice behind The Gnome with the Golden Hat, Gnome Too: The Gnome Grove…