Heather Haley's Blog, page 15

Who’s Your Daddy? The latest from the geneological front

All right! Received my Family Finder test kit in the mail today. Results will match me with both maternal and paternal relatives. Perhaps I finally have a chance of tracking down the scoundrel that spawned me, or at least, some of his kin. My kin. I’ve been on this quest for years, ever since my […]

East Meets West; Thai curries on a soggy Vancouver night…

…with fellow poet and dear friend Clara Blackwood of Toronto. It’s been a rough October but I got to go out for dinner with Clara while she was in town. She and father Alan Briesmaster of Quattro Books traveled to the west coast to launch  volumes by BC poets Susan McCaslin and Robert Osler.   […]

Indie Author Day at the VPL & speaking from experience…

In 2012 I had finally acquired both an agent and a publisher. Woo hoo! Both shall remain nameless because both turned out to be pretty much useless. The agent seemed to think my novel, The Town Slut’s Daughter belonged in the young adult genre and spent a year barking up the wrong trees while the […]

Indie Author Day at the VPL & speaking from my own experience…

In 2012 I had finally acquired both an agent and a publisher. Woo hoo! Both shall remain nameless because both turned out to be pretty much useless. The agent seemed to think my novel, The Town Slut’s Daughter belonged in the young adult genre and spent a year barking up the wrong trees while the […]

Racket remains, CV updated, treehouse residency

Gawd. Lived here for nearly a year and the building across the street is still being built. Wish we could move. In any case, got my CV updated with the help of Tanya Van  of Dollymomma Designs. I’m fortunate to have such kind and talented friends. It looks good and we got ‘er down to […]

Racket remains, CV updated, treehouse…

Gawd. Lived here for nearly a year and the building across the street is still being built. Wish we could move. In any case, got my CV updated with the help of Tanya Van. I’m fortunate to have such kind and talented friends. I think it looks good and we got ‘er down to one […]

Updating blog, CV despite the racket!

Ah, life in the big city, or “big smoke” as we ex-islanders refer to it. Our rent is going up, I need to get some editing done but again, there is a huge mother of a truck in front of the construction site across the street blasting away, since 6:30 this morning! Seriously considering moving. […]

For zealous Zellots fans everywhere, the Zellots on vinyl at last!

My dear friend, musician and musicologist Jason Flower of Supreme Echo Records in Victoria just announced that he is about to remaster the only known surviving Zellots recording, a cassette copy of a demo tape engineered and produced by the late Peter Draper, RIP. Jason and I spent nearly two years trying to track down […]

Practically a book trailer! New video for novel

I have not had time nor money to produce a book trailer for The Town Slut’s Daughter but pulled this together on Facebook. It even has music! Just click on the image below.

THE SKOOKUM RAVEN-a title at last

All right! Came up with a title for the new collection with the help of my esteemed editor; The Skookum Raven. Currently working on book structure, the  manuscript is nearly complete. Themes and sections include work and labour-Clown Duty, love and sex-Ripe To Stray, nature and birds of all sorts of course-Skookum Raven, crime and […]