Tag: indie author

  • About the Ghosts in Sleeping with Ghosts

    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…

  • The Artwork of Sleeping with Ghosts

    The Artwork of Sleeping with Ghosts

    by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts People often comment about the visual nature of my creative work, and how my writing is usually accompanied by photography or artwork. As a graphic designer, artist, and writer, I firmly believe that partnering visuals and words layers the intentions of my work and makes the communication more…

  • Time to Write

    Time to Write

    by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts Did you know that Picasso created more than 50,000 works of art, but only about 100 of those are considered masterpieces? That’s less than 1% of his work! I think about that little fact every April, when I attempt to write a poem a month for NaPoWriMo (National…

  • About the Ghosts in Sleeping with Ghosts

    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…

  • The Artwork of Sleeping with Ghosts

    The Artwork of Sleeping with Ghosts

    by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts People often comment about the visual nature of my creative work, and how my writing is usually accompanied by photography or artwork. As a graphic designer, artist, and writer, I firmly believe that partnering visuals and words layers the intentions of my work and makes the communication more…

  • Time to Write

    Time to Write

    by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts Did you know that Picasso created more than 50,000 works of art, but only about 100 of those are considered masterpieces? That’s less than 1% of his work! I think about that little fact every April, when I attempt to write a poem a month for NaPoWriMo (National…

  • WOW! Women on Writing Interview with Jen Payne

    WOW! Women on Writing Interview with Jen Payne

    by Jodi Webb WOW: Jen, welcome back to WOW! Women on Writing with your fifth book Sleeping with Ghosts. What inspired you to write about past relationships? JEN: Hi Jodi. Thanks for welcoming me back to WOW! I loved working with all of you for Evidence of Flossing and am happy to be back for…

  • US Review of Books: Sleeping with Ghosts

    US Review of Books: Sleeping with Ghosts

    US Review of Books, Book Review by Mari Carlson(Read the Original Review) “If one…is blessed with the gift,of the most perfect balloon,…one must make all accommodationsto hold fast…else that perfect thingmight slip from a grasp….” Payne’s latest collection of poems, musings, and artwork is a bouquet of balloons—lovers, friends, and moments she could let slip…

  • How to Read Like a Writer

    How to Read Like a Writer

    by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts Some of my all-time favorite books on writing are classics, like Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott, Poemcrazy by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, or Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg. Those were the must-read books when I was…

  • GUEST WRITER: The Artwork of Sleeping with Ghosts

    GUEST WRITER: The Artwork of Sleeping with Ghosts

    by Jen Payne, author, Sleeping with Ghosts People often comment about the visual nature of my creative work, and how my writing is usually accompanied by photography or artwork. As a graphic designer, artist, and writer, I firmly believe that partnering visuals and words layers the intentions of my work and makes the communication more…

  • GUEST WRITER: About the Ghosts in Sleeping with Ghosts

    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…