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

Tag: fiction

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…