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

Category: Writing

  • 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…

  • A Birthday Launch And a Book Finally Born

    Today, something delightful happened: I celebrated a birthday… and delivered a book. Not the kind of delivery that takes nine months, but certainly the kind that grows in its own mysterious timeline—draft by draft, sketch by sketch, whisper by whisper—until one morning you wake up and realize the thing you’ve been nurturing has finally decided…

  • Happy “I Love to Write” Day

    Some people collect stamps. Some people collect cats. I collect… pen names. If you’ve ever tried to keep track of Alexandra Heep, Helena Parx, and Lexa Drane, let me assure you: I can’t always keep track of them either. It’s like hosting a small, eccentric literary committee inside one brain—each with opinions, deadlines, and wildly…

  • How Many Times Can One Author Celebrate?

    Today, November 1, is National Author’s Day, and by my count, I get to celebrate three times. After all, I have three pen names — one for each creative creature that refused to stay quiet. That’s triple the inspiration, triple the to-be-read pile, and yes, triple the goat milk. (The commas, thankfully, remain infinite.) But…