Category: Books
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GUEST WRITER: Listening to Your Ghosts
by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him… — Plato Ghosts, Muses, Inspiration, Universe, God. Call it what you…
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BOOK REVIEW by Beverley Baird
Today, the Sleeping with Ghosts WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour stop features a BOOK REVIEW by Beverley A Baird: I would highly recommend Payne’s poetry memoir. Love fills its pages, and the words conjure intriguing images. There are so many special poems that I’m sure you will fall in love with, just as I…
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GUEST WRITER: About the Ghosts in Sleeping with Ghosts
by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts I am a part of all that I have met;Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fadesFor ever and forever when I move.How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!As tho’ to breathe were…
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GUEST WRITER: The Importance of Retreat
If the world were a sound, it would be flipping through all of the channels on a radio really fast. Announcers and DJs, commercials and music genres overlapping in the same way our 21st-century tasks seem to layer upon themselves. We’re always busy, there’s always something else to be managed, and the To Do list…
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BOOK REVIEW at Shoe’s Seeds & Stories
Today, the Sleeping with Ghosts WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour stop features a BOOK REVIEW by Shoe’s Seeds & Stories: These are poems to savor, even when they are heartbreaking, whether Payne is writing about New Hampshire in 1992 (I can picture the hidden meadow of lupines, the strawberry moon, the breathtaking stars), a…
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INTERVIEW: Jen Payne and Charity Howard
Today, I talk with more Charity Howard at Chit Chat with Charity. You might remember her from the “Power of Writing Through Poetry, Memories” review she did of Sleeping with Ghosts last week. Today, we chat interview-style. Check it out! JEN: Hi Charity. Thank you for being part of the WOW! Women on Writing blog tour…
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FEATURED: Sleeping with Ghosts on Anthony Avina’s Blog
Today’s WOW! Blog Tour finds me over at Anthony Avina’s blog as a Guest Writer. Check it out and be sure to sign up for the give-aways!
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INTERVIEW: Jen Payne and Kaecey McCormick, Some Thoughts: Everything Creativity
Today, I talk with Kaecey McCormick at Some Thoughts: Everything Creativity, who writes: “I’m thrilled to bring author Jen Payne to the blog today in an interview to discuss life, writing, and her new book, Sleeping with Ghosts. Earlier this month, I hosted a Community Poetry & Prose Night with the theme “The Ghosts We Carry,”…
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Meet Authors in The Shop during Guilford Art Center’s Holiday Expo
Guilford Art Center is excited to welcome local authors Julie Fitzpatrick, Mary O’Connor, Jen Payne, and Catherine Steinberg to our Authors in The Shop series hosted by Three Chairs Publishing. For four Saturdays in November, authors will be in The Shop signing books and talking with Holiday Expo shoppers from 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Saturday,…
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FEATURED: Sleeping with Ghosts on The Faerie Review
Today’s WOW! Blog Tour finds me over at The Faerie Review. Check it out and be sure to sign up for the give-aways!
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GUEST WRITER: How One Phone Call in 1996 Led to a Life of Self-Publishing
by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts I started my business, Words by Jen, in 1993. It was a part-time effort at first, offering writing and “desktop publishing” services to a small-but-growing list of local businesses, artists, and non-profits. By 1996, I had moved my office from the second bedroom of an apartment to commercial…
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INTERVIEW: Jen Payne and Tracey Lampley
Today, I talk with Tracey Lampley about “How One Phone Call in 1996 Led to a Life of Self-Pubishing.”
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