Harmony Kent's Blog, page 8
September 21, 2023
For my Alien: The Most Important Thing … A fun #poem from Harmony via @Vocal_Creators for the Extraterrestrial #Challenge
You can find my entry below. Vocal estimates this as a 1-minute read.
I’d love to know what you think! And I would be delighted if you could read and heart. To heart and/or comment, you’ll need to sign in to Vocal, which is free to do.
Thanks for all your support! Hugs 
September 11, 2023
Sally Cronin @sgc58 has a wonderful post showcasing my #poetry book Sorrowful Soul
“Sorrowful Soul is the third book in the Soul Poetry Series by acclaimed author Harmony Kent.
If we’re lucky, we meet twilight at the front door and old age creeps in on the night breeze.
Even if we make it to our twilight years, the more we age, the more loss we must endure as part of the cycle of life. Many of these poems lament death, but they also relate to broken relationships, severed friendships, and the loss of youth. This book of grief poetry is as much about saying goodbye and working through loss as it is about death and love split asunder.”
On this day of remembrance for 9/11, my heart goes out to everyone affected by this disaster.
See Sally’s post with an extract (excerpt) and a lovely review HERE
I’ve closed comments to save you having to answer on both sites. Hugs to you all.
September 8, 2023
The book that nearly destroyed my spirit: And the headmaster who led to the disaster A short story from Harmony via @Vocal_Creators #shortstory #memoir for #Writers #Challenge #FirstBook
You can find my entry below. Vocal estimates this as a 6-minute read, but something tells me you’ll whiz through this!
—The Book that Nearly Destroyed my Spirit
I’d love to know what you think! And I would be delighted if you could read and heart. To heart and/or comment, you’ll need to sign in to Vocal, which is free to do.
Thanks for all your support! Hugs
September 4, 2023
Sally Cronin @sgc58 has a wonderful post showcasing past reviews for my #poetry book Life & Soul
Life & Soul is the second book in the Soul Poetry Series by acclaimed author Harmony Kent.
This beautiful collection of over fifty poems will take the reader through the highs and lows of everyday life via contemporary poetry in a range of styles and themes. Within these pages, you will find reflections on the Lonely Soul, the Seeking Soul, Brief Soul, Friendly Soul, and the Loving Soul—states of mind and living and longing we each experience over the course of a life.
Life & Soul offers something for lovers of poetry from all walks of life.
See Sally’s post HERE
August 11, 2023
The Day My Life Changed: You Never See it Coming A short story from Harmony via @Vocal_Creators #shortstory #memoir for Chapters #Challenge #amputee #surgicalerror #lifechanging
You can find my entry below. Vocal estimates this as a 7-minute read, but something tells me you’ll whiz through this!
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I’d love to know what you think! And I would be delighted if you could read and heart. To heart and/or comment, you’ll need to sign in to Vocal, which is free to do.
Thanks for all your support! Hugs
August 10, 2023
Ava: The Future of Cinderella? A short story from Harmony via @Vocal_Creators #shortstory #fairytale for Fairytales Retold #Challenge
You can find my entry below. Vocal estimates this as a 5-minute read.
—Ava
I’d love to know what you think! And I would be delighted if you could read and heart. To heart and/or comment, you’ll need to sign in to Vocal, which is free to do.
Thanks for all your support! Hugs
August 8, 2023
The Secret is Out! #NewBook #NewSeries #HarborPointe 8 books from 8 @StoryEmpire authors!
The Harbor Pointe Inn has loomed on California’s cliffs for generations of Hawthornes. For some, it’s been a blessing. For others, a curse. Travel through two centuries of stories to discover the old inn’s secrets.
Hi everyone! I’m so excited to announce the ‘secret project’ I and 7 of my fellow Story Empire authors have been working on … a new Novella series! 
As well as flowing with the series, each novella can also be read as a stand alone story. The genres vary–mystery, suspense, ghost fiction, time travel, family and relationships, historical fiction, and futuristic. There’s a little something for every reader.
Here’s an extract and book description for my novella, The Room at the End, which releases on January 9th, 2o24 … scary how soon that will be upon us!
Book Description:
When guilt-ridden Mia checks in to a suicide hotel, but can’t go through with the final act, vengeful ghosts gather to torment her.
Set in the near future, the post-war world is in turmoil.
Mia Hawthorne suffers an emotional breakdown, following the death of her wife, and loses everything to a corrupt government.
In an ironic twist of fate, the government suicide department, The Last Sanctuary, allocates a desperate and destitute Mia to the very hotel and family heirloom which she has so recently lost.
On her first day at the Lighthouse Inn, beset with painful memories, doubts, and questions, Mia finds herself coming face to face with angry ghosts, who gather to goad and torment her.
Lost and alone, can Mia find enough strength and purpose to avoid her final, frightful fate?
Extract from Chapter One:
November, 2070, Harbor Pointe Inn
Much like her life, the hotel failed to meet expectations. Even if the thieving government hadn’t given the old place a complete refurbishment and removed all traces of its previous owners, it wouldn’t have felt the same. Wouldn’t have been hers. Mia shrugged the weight from her tense shoulders and showed a straight spine to the manager. With a forced air of calm nonchalance, she strode to within a pace of the reception counter. ‘Mia Hawthorne.’
The manager’s eyebrows lifted. Short, straight black hair in a severe cut framed her thin face and sucked any joy from her pale grey eyes. ‘Ah, yes. The Last Sanctuary allocated you to us.’
Mia’s smile felt more grimace than mirth. ‘Ironic, considering.’
‘Quite.’ The stern-looking woman peered over her glasses and studied the new arrival. After a couple of seconds, she leant over the counter and offered her hand, which Mia shook. ‘Hilary Cameron. Let me show you to your accommodations.’
Hilary collected a couple of key cards from a drawer and walked around to Mia’s side of the desk. ‘Given the … er … nature of your stay with us, I felt it best to house you in the old keeper’s cottage.’
Surprised, Mia stooped, picked up her two bags, and fell into step with Hilary. ‘Right. Thank you.’
The pair walked in a silence which fell somewhere between stiffly-companionable and uncomfortable. What did the government employed manager think of the Harbor Pointe Inn’s old owner coming here to end her life? For that matter, what did Mia herself think? At the thought, her abdominal muscles flinched and tightened. I’ll find out soon, I suppose. With a soft sigh, she kept pace with Hilary as they crossed the courtyard—nestled between the horseshoe-embrace of the hotel’s U-structure—and left the property via a back gate, which led to the rough track up to the keeper’s cottage and, further on toward the bluffs, the lighthouse.
The chill wind carried malevolent memories on its deceptively soft breeze and froze the marrow in Mia’s bones.
Universal Pre Order Links for the Series:
Mae Clair–The Price of Atonement a-fwd.com/asin=B0CCW59D94Gwen Plano–The Gift a-fwd.com/asin= B0CD15LV2ZD L Finn–The Destination a-fwd.com/asin=B0CCQB7X1SD Wallace Peach–The Seas of Time a-fwd.com/asin=B0CCQGRXH9Jan Sikes– The Edge of Too Late a-fwd.com/asin=B0CCQ1QB9XStaci Troilo–A Fathomless Affair a-fwd.com/asin=B0CCQLDX47Joan Hall–A Death at the Inn a-fwd.com/asin=B0CCR3HMBDHarmony Kent–The Room at the End a-fwd.com/asin=B0CCSFMC8JIt’s been a huge pleasure and honour to work with these seven talented authors on this fun project! And also a huge learning curve on co-ordinating us all
Thank you all for your support and for stopping by today to cheer us on!
Hugs, Harmony 
Skin Tight: A poem from Harmony via @Vocal_Creators #poetry #chronicpain #chronicillness #Depression and a #Health Update
You can find my entry below. Vocal estimates this as a 1-minute read.
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Health Update:
Thank you all for your constant support and well wishes.
So many of you hope someone will find something that helps my condition soon. Unfortunately, and outrageously, I’m on my own with this diagnosis.
I’m trying everything I can, but I’m not there yet as regards an answer or ‘magic bullet’. So, once again, apologies for being so absent. I’m having to make a lot of changes at the moment.
Hopefully, soon, I’ll be able to find some sort of rhythm, but right now, it’s a take each minute at a time and see, as my energy can drop off a cliff without notice, and the pain can ramp up within a split second, again without notice. Pain is constant–it’s just the degree that changes.
Sometimes, I’m way down (as this poem shows), but most of the time I bounce up quickly and am able to be my usual happy self. Hugs and love to you all
I’d love to know what you think! And I would be delighted if you could read and heart. To heart and/or comment, you’ll need to sign in to Vocal, which is free to do.
Thanks for all your support! Hugs
July 28, 2023
Ode to Toilet Paper: All the Ways we’ve Wiped! A #humorous #poem for the Ode to the Ordinary Challenge @Vocal_Creators #poetry
You can find my entry below. Vocal estimates this as a 1-minute read.
I’d love to know what you think! And I would be delighted if you could read and heart. To heart and/or comment, you’ll need to sign in to Vocal, which is free to do.
Thanks for all your support! Hugs
July 27, 2023
Fixer Upper? and White Noise: Two poems from Harmony via @Vocal_Creators #poetry #pain #chronicillness #Depression
You can find my entries below. Vocal estimates these as a 1-minute reads.
I’d love to know what you think! And I would be delighted if you could read and heart. To heart and/or comment, you’ll need to sign in to Vocal, which is free to do.
Thanks for all your support! Hugs
