Heather Haley's Blog, page 21
March 24, 2015
“Why do you write poetry?” she asked.
Not certain I’ll ever find enough time to pen another novel but I continue to carve hours out of each week to write verse, which to many is an utter waste of time. I am not so foolish as to waste my breath convincing anyone of its merit. I know why I write poetry. Poetry […]
March 16, 2015
“A visceral trip through Vancouver’s punk scene.”-Vancouver Sun review of The Town Slut’s Daughter
“Haley has the gift of writing to suit her subject in all its raddled variety, from wired and jarring to lyrical and tragic. The lyricism is seductive in a way which reflects her heroine’s suicidal spiral into depravity.” Review by George Payerle in the Vancouver Sun. FYI, the story ends in LA, during the riots, […]
March 9, 2015
Kindle Countdown Deal-The Town Slut’s Daughter
This Fiona’s on fire! Announcing my Kindle Countdown Deal from today through Mar 11. My novel, The Town Slut’s Daughter is on sale for 99¢. “Worth the danger.” -”This is Punk Literature at its unique and original best, with a Cinderella-like heroine running into the flames of her own making.” -”The Town Slut’s Daughter takes […]
March 8, 2015
Happy Birthday to me & Happy (?) International Women’s Day!
This is a tough one. I may not act my age but there’s no denying that I’m getting old, running out of time, moving inexorably toward the day of my departure. Human consciousness makes life bittersweet, living with our mortality. Living with death. Or despite it? For we live despite it all; every fear, challenge, […]
February 18, 2015
WINTER HEAT
WINTER HEAT You and I. We Warm the cabin With a fiesta. Slow dances. Tortuous torch songs. He who orchestrates touch Who once handed me My limping orders Favours the melted And I, Kiosk chocolate. Cormorants black as cinder. You ban air quotes. Kink. I, fake railings. Balloon releases, Especially for no occasion. You inform […]
February 3, 2015
Rockin’ Art Song Lab and Our friend Pete, as in Trower
I’ve long been intrigued by the Art Song Lab program so I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been selected as one of 12 poets participating in Art Song Lab 2015! Vancouver (May 31st – June 5th). I am paired with composer Brian Topp. Our piece will premiere at the Orpheum Annex in downtown Vancouver in […]
January 19, 2015
Poetical Canuckian love letters, “Voracious”-new AURAL Heather & Vancouver’s female punk rockers
Lots of action on the HS Haley front! 2015 looks promising. Last summer poetry impresario and scholar Dave Eso contacted me regarding a Goose Lane Editions anthology of love letters by Canadian poets that he and Jeanette Lynes were co-editing called Where the Nights are Twice as Long. I was intrigued and he was interested […]
December 24, 2014
DIY Dickens. “A Christmas Carol,” self-published masterpiece. 12th Blog of Christmas by best-selling author Martin Crosbie
Martin Crosbie lives on the west coast of Canada and has written five books including Amazon bestseller My Temporary Life. His popular Christmas novel Believing Again: A Tale Of Two Christmases is available in e-book format in the US and UK as a Kindle Countdown Deal from Dec. 24-27 for only 99 cents. Marley was dead, to […]
A Christmas Love Story by guest blogger Wendy McClelland
Wendy McClelland is a business pioneer; as one of the first small businesses to get online in the mid 1990’s, her first website was chosen by the NY Times as “one of the best biz sites on the ‘net”. She is an award winning entrepreneur as well as a past nominee for “Canadian Entrepreneur of […]
December 23, 2014
A shiny magpie Christmas-Dianne Greenlay gets into the spirit
I’m the author of the award winning action/adventure QUINTSPINNER SERIES , and also of THE CAMPING GUY , a humorous short story, which is an award winner in its theatre script version. I live and write on the Canadian prairies, home (most years) to 6 or 7 months of winter. Yeah, we never put our […]
