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October 8, 2018
Creativity Over Perfection: The World Needs Your Book!
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This Thursday October 11, 2018 my first non-fiction creative writing book will be available on Amazon!!! I’m super excited about this book – it was such a challenge to write and I put so much of myself into it.
Going from writing YA Sci-Fi to non-fiction was the most amazing, frustrating, intense, and emotional period of writing I have gone through. Adding stories of my past and how I came to love writing and how I kept writing through life’s challenges was extremely emotional.
Here’s part of the back copy:
Ever been woken up in the middle of the night by an idea that just has to be written?
Do you sometimes feel that your creative brain is running on empty?
Have you felt like there’s got to be more to your current journey than you’re experiencing?
Thought about writing a book, but then later worried, “Am I good enough?”
Creativity over Perfection will challenge, encourage, and empower you to write your book. Writing helped me survive Lupus even while raising teenagers, working full time, and experiencing many of life’s traumatic events. I’ve learned how to keep going and to celebrate each small victory in my path.
In this book you will learn:
We are all creative
Creative writing helps us to understand ourselves and the world around us better
“Write what you know” isn’t what you think and neither is “writer’s block”
How to keep your creative tank full so you can persevere each day to reclaim your creativity, your physical and mental health, and your future.
I’ll update with the Amazon link on Thursday!
-Heather Lee
June 14, 2018
Midpoint Station Ebook on sale – and Bookzio! #YASF
June 14, 2018
Just a quick note to remind my wonderful YA readers that Midpoint Station is 99 cents today! This is book 4 in my YASF Recycling Humanity series. The celebration for Talia’s Planet launch continues! See the links below for Midpoint Station and signing up for Bookzio to find other great deals as well!
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For you writers on my blog – Bookzio is one of the best online ad companies I’ve come across so far. They are really great to work for and keep adding new ideas and websites to their deals.
Read. Write. Travel. Create!
-Heather
June 13, 2018
Book 5 is Here! Talia’s Planet launched today! #YASF
And it’s here! Talia’s Planet, book 5 is now available on Amazon! It feels so good to have all five books in the series out in the world!
Right now the E-book of Midpoint Station, book 4 is on sale for 99 cents on Amazon! It will be for the next few days.
What’s next for me? I’m busy writing my new YASF series, the Delta Fringe series. I’ve already written book 1 and now I’m writing book 2. The first chapter is, as I hinted in a previous blog, is in the back of the book Talia’s Planet.
Here’s all the places you can find out more about me:
My Website: www.heatherleedyer.com (Sign up for my newsletter with updates and random space fangirl info here!)
Become my friend on Goodreads and like my Facebook page!
And now I’m going to go celebrate my book launch with a Dutch Bros German chocolate mocha! And then back to writing!
-Heather
June 12, 2018
Talia’s Planet Book Launch Eve! #Excited #YASF
June 12, 2018
Tomorrow, Talia’s Planet, the fifth book in the YA SF Recycling Humanity series will be launched in E-book and paperback on Amazon! I actually saw that the paperback is ready today to purchase today – but the pre-order is still up tonight for the E-book.
It’s kind of like the night before Christmas. I’m so excited for Talia’s Planet to launch tomorrow. And don’t forget – there’s a bonus at the end of the book. I have included the first chapter of my next series as a teaser for the new YA SF Delta Fringe series launch in August!
As always I’m so grateful for all my readers and supporters along this wonderful writing journey. I love writing and couldn’t see myself doing life without my fictional characters, or sharing them with all of you.
The image here is the sneak peek of the back of the new bookmarks I’ve ordered.
Every Day is a New Adventure!
Read. Write. Travel. Create.
Part of this is tattooed on my arm – Read. Write. Create! Along with a book and quill pen – this was my first tattoo. I will need to add travel into another tattoo now that I’ve become addicted to traveling and learning about other communities, states, countries. If I can’t visit the stars in my lifetime, I want to visit as many states in the US and countries in the world as I can. I have been so inspired by getting out of my comfort zone.
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If you enjoyed the Recycling Humanity series, please consider leaving a review on Amazon and Goodreads.
Have an extraordinary day!
-Heather
June 10, 2018
Summer Book Releases and Book Signings
It’s just a few days until the last book in my Recycling Humanity series, Talia’s Planet comes out! I’ve reviewed and accepted the print proof and it’s ready to go. I have a few ads that will go out for Midpoint Station so everyone can read that one first. For Talia’s launch, Midpoint Station ebook will be available for 99 cents June 13-15!
You can also still pre-order Talia’s Planet and have it automatically delivered to your kindle on Wednesday.
On top of finishing the Recycling Humanity series, I’ve been writing a non-fiction creative writing book for young adults, and starting a new YA SF series. I hope to debut these new books in August when I have several book signings set up.
On Saturday August 18, 2018 downtown Boise during the Saturday market at Rediscovered bookstore I will be signing my books and having a blast talking to all the customers stopping in! So come down and say hi! I will be there 11 am to 2 pm. It will be fun and crazy – especially with all that construction downtown. Haha
Then I will also have a booth at the Boise Comic Arts Festival (formerly the Library Comic Con) – which will now be held at the amazing JUMP center! Come to the 6th floor of the JUMP building August 25th or 26th to see me and buy some books! Check out their Facebook page.
I’ll have these events posted on my Facebook page soon, so make sure to go over there and like my page. You can also sign up for my newsletter from that page or from my website!
Here’s to an amazing, fun, and crazy summer!
-Heather
June 9, 2018
Idea that Sparked my YA SF Recycling Humanity Series is now Real Science!
June 9, 2018
You can pre-order Talia’s Planet, book 5 in the series here! It comes out June 13, 2018.
In 2012 when I first decided to start writing a novel for the NaNoWriMocontest, I was woken up in the middle of the night with the idea that became the backstory for my Recycling Humanity series. In the Recycling Humanity universe the Earth has been destroyed by overpopulation and destruction of the environment. A scientist came up with a bacteria to eat up all the plastics that were overfilling the garbage dumps, oceans, and cities. But his bacteria got out of control and destroyed everything man-made and natural, so all of civilization came crashing down as it ate through buildings, transportation, food storage, vegetation, and eventually everyone on Earth was left with a bare, dead Earth.
Thankfully, in the Recycling Humanity universe humans had already mastered living in space, so what was left of humanity abandoned their dying Earth and built generational space habits to live in. This is where Recycling Humanity, book 1 starts.
This past April scientists in Japan discovered a mutant enzyme in a waste dump that actually eats plastic! Previously we’ve known that certain waxworm caterpillars were able to eat through certain plastics, but this new discovery could help our current problem with waste plastics.
As long as it doesn’t mutate too much like in my novels!
June 8, 2018
Proof copy of Talia’s Planet!!! #happydance
I know I’m really cutting it close with getting the proof copy just a few days from launch. But to Createspace’s credit it got here two days earlier than planned.
June 7, 2018
T minus 8 days book launch – relationships and review blurbs!
I’m also very proud to announce that with Midpoint Station and Talia’s Planet, I have some amazing author reviews on the back covers!
My good friend and excellent writer Dave Butler aka D.J. Butler, author of Witchy Eye and Witchy Winter wrote me a blurb:
“Recycling Humanity is an adrenaline rush disguised as YA science fiction. If you liked The Expanse, you’ll love this book.” D.J. Butler
Thank you Dave for being awesome, and making it to Boise enough so I get to hear your latest songs!!
Also, bestselling author Cherry Adair wrote me a blurb. Cherry is an amazing person, teacher, and writer. I love her books! She wrote:
“The RECYCLING HUMANITY series is a fabulous, fast-moving, thrill-ride of a young adult space opera.” – Cherry Adair, New York Times Bestselling Author
Cherry Adair runs a yearly contest called Finish the Damn Book! That helped me finish these last two novels in my Recycling Humanity series. She gives lots of encouragement and a kick in the pants when you need it!
It’s for this reason- meeting and learning from such amazing people that keeps me going even when doubts start creeping into my head. I love the writing community, it’s full of such generous, talented, well-rounded creatives.
Don’t forget to pre-order Talia’s Planet today!
-Heather
June 6, 2018
Pre-order is live for Talia’s Planet! – T minus 8 days until book launch!
June 6, 2018
I did something different with the Ebook of Talia’s Planet – I have it on pre-order on Amazon!!!! It will be out next week on June 13, 2018. If you buy it now on pre-order Amazon will deliver it straight to your Kindle or Kindle app on that day! I just love technology!
Click here for Talia’s Planet pre-order!!!!
This blog will be short today since I’ve been working on the non-fiction book most of the evening. Yesterday’s blog highlighted a few stories that I’ve incorporated into my creative non-fiction book for young adults.
I need to go order a proof of Talia’s Planet now since the paperback version was just approved as well. I’m so excited!
Again, go here for Talia’s Planet pre-order!!!!
More tomorrow,
-Heather
June 5, 2018
Talia’s Planet book launch – T minus 9 Days!
Even after 5 books it’s hard launching this one out into the world. Each of the Recycling Humanity books has personal meaning for me. I know some authors say we shouldn’t treat our books like our babies – it makes it too personal for us and we are too sensitive to criticism. This can be true.
But that’s not what I mean by these books have personal meaning to me. I was once interviewed for a magazine article and they asked me if I put any part of myself into these books. I didn’t hesitate when I answered yes. All authors put some part of themselves into their books – either their experiences, personal traits, their wishes and dreams, or even their fears. I think I have a bit of each scattered throughout the Recycling Humanity series.
The first book that started all this, Recycling Humanity, will always mean a lot to me because it showed me I could write a whole novel. For this one I did draw some characteristics from family members. And my nephew’s middle name. *Thanks Vince!*
Starlight Max came from working with juveniles incarcerated at the state corrections department. Although I use real life experiences and ideas for my books, I then develop them into what it would like in my Sci-fi world.
Biolab Zeg came from research I had done on Biosphere 2 in Arizona. I grew up believing that experiment would get us living in space before I was out of college. And now we have all sorts of experiments happening on the United Space Station that gives me chills every time I watch videos of the amazing astronauts up there.
Midpoint Station and Talia’s Planet came after a close call with my eyesight. One of the side effects of my Lupus meds are blindness. After a not-so-good eye appointment I decided to research my options. I work downtown in our state’s capital and my office is a few blocks away from the main office for the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The Director of that office often stops by my office to talk to our staff. I asked for a few minutes of his time and asked him many questions that not only made me feel better about my situation, but helped develop Talia’s abilities and confidence.
The other theme that weaves throughout the Recycling Humanity series is mental illnesses and disabilities of different kinds – seen and unseen. Many of these I’ve experienced first hand through my own battle with Lupus, or family members with physical and mental disabilities. I’ve also learned a lot working with the social workers in my job.
So, yes these books will always be personal in some small way. And I’m sure my future ones will too. But I put my books out there to entertain, so I hope all my readers enjoy my adventures!
And I hope this small peek behind the scenes of my Recycling Humanity series inspires everyone reading this to write everyday! You never know where that out-of-the-blue idea will take you!
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-Heather
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