Quote from The Wolf Queen:
“Gods, woman. You are the most stubborn female I have ever
met.”
Kelley Heckart, Historical fantasy romance author
Captivating...Sensual...Otherworldly
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, March 21, 2016
Monday Musings: Arizona Sunsets #17
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
caipirinha
noun cai·pi·ri·nha
\ˌkī-pə-ˈrēn-yə\
Definition of
caipirinha
Popularity: Bottom
30% of words
: a cocktail consisting of lime, sugar, and rum
Origin of caipirinha
Brazilian Portuguese,
from caipira backwoodsman, rustic
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, March 14, 2016
Me, a Tee-ball coach? Yeah, that’s what I said
I never would have thought I’d end
up coaching Tee-ball. It was the last thing I thought I’d be doing. But here I
am. Coach Kelley. I did it reluctantly to help my dad, who only volunteered to
manage the Tee-ball team because none of the other parents would. And he is a
great grandfather. With all the experience I had as a softball player, I have
the knowledge to teach, but trying to work with a group of four to six-year-olds
is like trying to herd cats. No, I take that back. I think herding cats might
be easier. At least for someone like me who never had any children, only the
four-legged kind.
So, I dusted off my old mitt and
bought a couple of new sports bras and dragged myself to the ball field,
thinking it would be a chore I would have to endure for a few weeks. But these
kids surprised me. It’s turning out to be a fun experience watching them so enthusiastic
about playing ball. And it’s rewarding to give something back to the community
and help shape some future baseball or softball players. There are three girls
on the team, which I like to see, and they are really trying hard. A couple of
them are already hitting the ball better than some of the boys. LOL
Now I look forward to Tee-ball
practice. This old fart is actually enjoying herself.
Quote from The Wolf Queen:
“Gods, woman. You are the most stubborn female I have ever
met.”
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth and magic
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, March 09, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
cahow
noun ca·how
\kə-ˈhau̇\
Definition of cahow
Popularity: Bottom
10% of words
: a dark-colored petrel (Pterodroma cahow)
formerly abundant in Bermuda but now nearly extinct
Origin of cahow
imitative
First Known Use: 1615
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, March 07, 2016
Downsizing is harder than it seems
We made the decision to downsize
last year. Well, my husband wanted to do this more than I did, but after
dragging my feet, I decided it was the right thing to do. That didn’t make it
any easier for me. We went from a 3-bedroom house to a 2-bedroom duplex. Even
after having four garage sales, we still had too much stuff. Physically, this
was the hardest move for both of us. That might be because we are a lot older
now, but it’s not easy trying to fit everything into a smaller place. Whenever we
moved in the past, it was always to a larger home. I think the hardest part was
spending a year sorting and cleaning out all my stuff. The process was so time-consuming
and stressful. It’s difficult deciding what to get rid of and what to keep.
However… I’m discovering that I
didn’t really need all of those things I had and there are many creative ways
to organize a smaller home. Pinterest has been a great help with people sharing
so many great ideas. We are quickly adapting to our new place. After a year of
cleaning out stuff, hosting garage sales (when you start recognizing the people
shopping in your garage, you’ve had too many), and finally moving, I’m looking
forward to new beginnings and moving on with my life.
 |
| The view from our new home.
Quote from The Wolf Queen:
“Tantaus, you Cyclopean idiot,” Niren said, “can you not see
Lycaon is infatuated with the girl?”
|
Otherworldly tales steeped in myth and magic
Writing means different things to me. I'm a storyteller, a book editor, and a songwriter. For me, it's like breathing.
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Weird Word Wednesday
cahoot
noun ca·hoot
\kə-ˈhüt\
Definition of cahoot
Popularity: Bottom
50% of words
: partnership, league —usually used in plural
Origin of cahoot
perhaps from French
cahute cabin, hut
First Known Use: 1829
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 29, 2016
Monday Musings: Arizona Sunsets #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.
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.
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