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YA Fall Scavenger Hunt 2020

Hello and Welcome to the Fall 2020  YA Scavenger Hunt!

I’m Heather Reid

Author Of 

WHEN DARKNESS WHISPERS and OF DARKNESS DROWNING

I’ll be your host for this leg of the

Blue Team Hunt!

This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author...

How I Survived the Pandemic Lockdown: A Love Letter to FitzChivalry Farseer and Robin Hobb

I first read Robin Hobb’s Farseer trilogy in my 20’s (let’s just say that was a very long time ago) and immediately fell in love with FitzChivalry Farseer, Verity, Kettricken, Burich, Chade, Molly, The Fool, and especially Nighteyes. I quickly moved on to The Tawney Man Trilogy, and then to her Live Ship Traders series. Every time I would finish a book, I would think to myself, that was my favorite, and every time I picked up a new one, I relished each moment I got to spend in Hobb’s immersive f...

The Little Book That Could

Most of you know that my publishing journey has not been an easy one. There’s been a lot of disappointment and heart ache surrounding my debut novel, PRETTY DARK NOTHING and its sequel. Despite all the bumps in the road, I refuse to quit. Writing is my passion and my calling.

To all my artist and writing friends who feel like they want to give up. Don’t!!! You never know where the journey is going to take you. Keep creating. Focus, not on getting an agent or being published, but on the joy o...

Creative Coaching and The Power of Intuitive Writing

A few months ago, one of my close writing friends introduced me to Lauren Sapalas book The INFJ Writer. Thank you, Jill Cox! Jill knew I had been fighting my natural creative process and that conventional writing methods didnt work for me. They never have, yet I continued to bang away at the keyboard, getting stuck in an endless loop of guilt and frustration that I wasnt producing words at a faster rate.

So, when Jill told me about the INFJ Writer, I went out and bought a copy. The book...

YASH When Darkness Whispers Giveaway Winner

Thank you to everyone who participated in the YA Fall Scavenger Hunt. Now to announce the winner of my personal WHEN DARKNESS WHISPERS signed copy giveaway.

Congratulations to Anika ‘Pixie’ Crayon! I’ll be contacting you shortly so I can send you your prize.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Hunt this year.

Happy Reading!

YA Fall Scavenger Hunt 2019

Hello and Welcome to the Fall 2019  YA Scavenger Hunt!

I’m Heather Reid. Author of WHEN DARKNESS WHISPERS and your host for this leg of the Purple Team Hunt!

This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the c...

Starting Over: Re-releasing my debut.

I realize it’s been awhile since I’ve blogged. Life has taken a lot of unexpected turns in the last few years. We built a house, adopted another Labrador, moved, been laid off, started a new job, survived my husband’s heart attack, depression, loss, and anxiety. I got my rights back from my publisher. I learned a lot about love and life and failure. And, while it’s been hard, it’s also deepened my love an connection to the written word that I can’t regret.

I’ll be honest, when I got the righ...

Rising From The Ashes: Finding the Way Back From Loss

 

Yes, I am still alive, though by the dust gathering on this blog, you wouldn’t know it. In truth, I’ve been lost, traveling the dark places, searching for a way out of the valleys of grief and loss, cutting my way through the dense forest of self-doubt, thirsting across the acrid hot desert of anger, and finally, weary of the journey, curling my broken spirit up beneath the heavy, crushing boulder of failure.

And there I’ve stayed, desperately trying to untangle the threads of my unravelin...

YA Fall Scavenger Hunt 2015

Hello and welcome to the Fall 2015 YA Scavenger Hunt!

I’m Heather Reid

author of the Pretty Dark Nothing Series

andyour host for this leg of the

ORANGE TEAM HUNT!

This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the...

Writer Unboxed Un-Conference: Through-ness and The Power of Genuine Community

Photo credit Mike Swift

Sunday night. My suitcase yawns open in front of me, empty and waiting. My flight leaves in eight hours. Piles of clean clothes encircle me as I kneel by the case and examine each possible outfit. Where should I start? An unfamiliar question for a seasoned and decisive traveler who usually has her bags packed in record time. I’d been looking forward to Un-Con for a year, but that was before June, before Mom. Now, I don’t want to go. The hollowness inside me goes too...