Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
About Me
- Kelley Heckart
- Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Monday Musings: Arizona Sunsets #16
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Tabby's Nocturnal Nights: Ever wonder what it's like to be a wolf?
Tabby's Nocturnal Nights: Ever wonder what it's like to be a wolf?: Wouldn’t it feel great to be in the body of a wolf? I’ve always wondered what it would be like. Alas, I don’t have that extraordinary abili...
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
cadastre
noun ca·das·tre
\kə-ˈdas-tər\
Definition of
cadastre
Popularity: Bottom
30% of words
: an official register of the quantity, value,
and ownership of real estate used in apportioning taxes
Origin of cadastre
French, from Italian
catastro, from Old Italian catastico, from Late Greek katastichon notebook,
from Greek kata by + stichos row, line — more at cata-, distich
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, February 22, 2016
Monday Musings: Arizona Cloud Formations #17
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
cabal
noun ca·bal
\kə-ˈbäl, -ˈbal\
Simple Definition of
cabal
Popularity: Top 30%
of words
: a small group of
people who work together secretly
Full Definition of
cabal
1
: the artifices and intrigues of a group of
persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government); also : a group engaged in such artifices and
intrigues
2
See cabal defined for
English-language learners
See cabal defined for
kids
Examples of cabal
a cabal plotting to
overthrow the government
Origin of cabal
French cabale cabala,
intrigue, cabal, from Medieval Latin cabbala cabala, from Late Hebrew qabbālāh,
literally, received (lore)
First Known Use: 1614
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, February 15, 2016
Monday Musings: Arizona Sunsets #15
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
bwana
noun bwa·na \ˈbwä-nə\
Definition of BWANA
: master, boss
Origin of BWANA
Swahili, from Arabic
abūna our father
First Known Use: 1875
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, February 08, 2016
Monday Musings: Arizona Cloud Formations #16
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
bubble memory
noun
Definition of BUBBLE
MEMORY
: a computer memory that uses magnetic bubbles
to store information
First Known Use of
BUBBLE MEMORY
1969
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, February 01, 2016
Monday Musings: Arizona Sunsets #14
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
bubble chamber
noun
Definition of BUBBLE
CHAMBER
: a chamber of superheated liquid in which the
path of an ionizing particle is made visible by a string of vapor bubbles
First Known Use of
BUBBLE CHAMBER
1953
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, January 25, 2016
Monday Musings: Letting Go and De-cluttering
We (my husband and I) are downsizing and moving into a
smaller home. It seems like no big deal, right? Except that I have trouble
letting go of material things. It took me years to get over my first truck after
I sold it, and I didn’t start to finally get rid of clothes I couldn’t possibly
wear now until this move. If we weren’t moving, I’d still be hanging on to
them. I had panic attacks over things I sold at a recent garage sale, stuff I
don’t use or need any longer. Worthless stuff.
I think these are signs of hoarding. I’d laugh but it’s not
really funny and kind of alarming. Reality can affect you that way.
I’m learning to let go. It’s a slow process, but I don’t
want to be the strange lady who dies in her house and can’t be found beneath
her pile of stuff that fell and buried her. That would be funny except it
actually happened to someone. Not kidding. Seeing that story on the news was a huge
wake-up call for me.
I’m learning that de-cluttering is improving my creativity.
My mind is “de-cluttering.” It’s weird, but I don’t feel so weighed down. I
feel free. Wow. I should have done this a long time ago.
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Guest Blogger: Kelley Heckart – How I Created My Anti-Hero
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
bubble and squeak
noun
: a meal of potatoes,
cabbage, and sometimes meat mixed together and fried
Full Definition of
BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
: a British dish consisting of usually leftover
potatoes, greens (as cabbage), and sometimes meat fried together
First Known Use of BUBBLE
AND SQUEAK
circa 1785
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, January 18, 2016
Monday Musings: Wind, my nemesis in the desert
I don’t like the wind. Other areas have bad weather like
blizzards or below zero temperatures, but here in the Arizona desert, we have wind.
Harsh, biting, gusting, unrelenting wind.
Wind trashes my yard and swimming pool.
Wind yanks the car door out of my hand and I dent the car
door next to me.
Wind snatches papers out of my hand and makes me look
ridiculous as I chase them while the wind keeps blowing them down the street.
Wind ruins my hairstyle.
Wind blows trashcans and other debris into the road.
I hate wind.
In the book, A Witch’s
Guide to Faery Folk, the ones associated with wind/air are particularly
nasty. One example is the Spriggans of England and Cornwall, where they are
believed to be bodyguards for the Unseelie Court. They are described as
“dangerously malevolent.” They can command destructive winds at their will.
Contact is not advised. Hmm, I wonder if these little demons often travel to
Arizona.
My least favorite days are the windy ones. You learn really
fast here in the desert not to leave anything outside that might blow away. And
that’s usually after something blows away, something big that you couldn’t
possibly imagine losing in a wind gust not produced by a tornado. Wind is
tricky that way. Stay away, you wind spirits. Find someone else to torment.
Did I mention I hate wind?
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Review for The Wolf Queen by Long and Short Reviews
http://www.longandshortreviews.com/book-reviews/the-wolf-queen-by-kelley-heckart/
5 stars! Review quote: "A read any paranormal reader could love and one I highly recommend." Click on the above link for the full review.
5 stars! Review quote: "A read any paranormal reader could love and one I highly recommend." Click on the above link for the full review.
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Kelley's interview at Characters Behaving Badly
http://www.bloglovin.com/blogs/characters-behaving-badly-11419371?post=4706616449&group=0&frame_type=a&context=&context_ids=&blog=11419371&frame=1&click=0&user=0&viewer=true
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Weird Word Wednesday
Bubba
noun Bub·ba \ˈbə-bə\
Definition of BUBBA
often disparaging
: redneck
Origin of BUBBA
from Bubba, a
stereotypical nickname of Southern white males
First Known Use: 1979
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, January 11, 2016
Monday Musings: Arizona Jet Streams
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, January 06, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
brabble
verb brab·ble \ˈbra-bəl\
brab·bledbrab·bling
\-b(ə-)liŋ\
Definition of BRABBLE
intransitive verb
: squabble
— brabble noun
Examples of BRABBLE
Origin of BRABBLE
perhaps from Middle
Dutch brabbelen, of imitative origin
First Known Use:
circa 1530
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, January 04, 2016
Monday Musings: Arizona Backyard Wildlife
Roadrunner in the tree probably hunting my lizards.
A snake swimming in the pool.
Baby Godzilla.
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Friday, January 01, 2016
Favorite Friday: Sharing a favorite fantasy movie trilogy
Favorite fantasy movie trilogy
Lord of the Rings
This needs no explanation. If you don't know about this fantasy trilogy, you have been living in a hole. :)
Lord of the Rings
This needs no explanation. If you don't know about this fantasy trilogy, you have been living in a hole. :)
Kelley Heckart,
Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Weird Word Wednesday
bizarrerie
noun bi·zar·re·rie \bi-ˌzär-ə-ˈrē\
Definition of
BIZARRERIE
1
: a bizarre quality
2
: something bizarre
Origin of BIZARRERIE
French
First Known Use: 1747
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday, December 28, 2015
Tabby's Nocturnal Nights: A new book release and beastly heroes
Tabby's Nocturnal Nights: A new book release and beastly heroes: I finally have a new book out. My hero is a little different from the normal romance hero. He is half-wolf and half-man. Does that make him ...
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Monday Musings: Moon photographs
Blood Moon rising.
Moon reflection.
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
My author page at amazon.com with all my books listed
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Friday, December 25, 2015
Favorite Friday: Sharing a favorite bodice ripper and silliest vintage romance
Bold Blades Flashing by Lorinda Hagen
Book description:
Garnet Shaw was only sixteen, but
she was a diminutive spitfire, as Happy Jack Muldoon, captain of the pirate
ship Dancing Lady, quickly learned when he claimed her as his prize on a
sea-going raid.
Garnet found that a life of piracy
appealed to her, as did dashing Captain Jack, whose mistress she became.
But then the Dancing Lady was
boarded by the beautiful and arrogant Dell Fields. Her mysterious relationship
with the pirate captain soon bound all three in a strange alliance whose links
were forged in passion and in blood!
This romance was published back in
1979 when purple prose reined and so did TSTL heroines. LOL I loved this book
when I read it all those years ago. Wow, how times (and me) have changed. I
would most likely throw this book against the wall if I read it today, but for
some reason I’ve held on to it. Perhaps Captain Jack (yes, not kidding, that’s
his name) made an impression of my young inexperienced mind. If you want to
travel back in time to when silly romances were popular and probably get a good
laugh out of it, then check this book out.
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Weird Word Wednesday
bivouac
noun biv·ouac \ˈbi-və-ˌwak, ˈbiv-ˌwak\
: a temporary camp or
shelter
Full Definition of
BIVOUAC
1
: a usually temporary encampment under little
or no shelter
2
a : encampment usually for a night
b : a temporary or casual shelter or lodging
Examples of BIVOUAC
Origin of BIVOUAC
French, from Low
German biwacht, from bi by + wacht guard
First Known Use: 1819
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
http://www.kelleyheckart.com
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
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