Tag: life
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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…
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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…
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The Scent of a New Chapter
“There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.” Robert Jordan In my introduction post I explained how I was born with the spark to write. So, why did it almost take 60 years to get to author stage? “A Beginning” happened to me early 2025 when…
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Introduction
People always want to know how long it took to realize you wanted to do something you love — in my case, writing. I was born with the spark; it just spent a few decades dodging traffic. Writing was never something I discovered; it’s something that kept trying to find me. Between bills, jobs, and…
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Welcome to the Word Herd 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. Together, they make one gloriously uncooperative herd of imagination — and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Welcome to…
A Heep of Words: Books by Alexandra Heep, Helena Parx, Lexa Drane 