Tag: Life with Ghosts

  • 6 Great Gift Ideas

    6 Great Gift Ideas

    Are you looking for a few unique gift ideas?Here are some suggestions from Three Chairs Publishing. 1. If your New Year’s resolutions include adding more creativity into your life, then check out Mary O’Connor’s book Say Yes! to Your Creative Self. It includes original photographs and haiku, along with writing prompts and suggestions for making…

  • 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…

  • The Book Nook, Connecticut Shoreline

    The Book Nook, Connecticut Shoreline

    THANK YOU Alicia Gomez and Shore Publishing for featuring two Three Chairs books — Say Yes! to Your Creative Self by Mary O’Connor and Sleeping with Ghosts by Jen Payne — in the Winter on the Shoreline magazine! (Both books can be purchased at Breakwater Books and Guilford Art Center before the holidays!)

  • December 15: Poems for the Winter Solstice

    December 15: Poems for the Winter Solstice

    I hope you can join me on Sunday, December 15, 1:30 p.m. at the Blackstone Library (Branford) for POEMS FOR THE WINTER SOLSTICE, a poetry reading hosted by Branford’s Poet Laureate Judith Liebmann. I’ll be reading, along with local poets Sheila Dietz, Marion Gittleman, Amy Levitin Graver, Kate Hubbard, Mark McGuire-Schwartz, and Cathy Weiss. And,…

  • 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…

  • INTERVIEW: Jen Payne and Charity Howard

    INTERVIEW: Jen Payne and Charity Howard

    Today, I’m talking with more Charity Howard at Chit Chat with Charity. JEN: Hi Charity. Thank you for being part of the WOW! Women on Writing blog tour for my book Sleeping with Ghosts, and for taking the time to ask some good questions! What is your favorite part of your book and why? JEN:…

  • FEATURED: Sleeping with Ghosts on Hook of a Book!

    FEATURED: Sleeping with Ghosts on Hook of a Book!

    Today’s WOW! Blog Tour finds me over at Erin Al-Mehairi’s blog HOOK OF A BOOK! as a Guest Writer. There’s also a poem preview and some reading recommendations. Check it out!

  • Meet Jen Payne during Authors in The Shop at Guilford Art Center

    Meet Jen Payne during Authors in The Shop at Guilford Art Center

    Guilford Art Center is excited to welcome local author Jen Payne to its 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, November 16Learn about the ghosts in Jen…

  • FEATURED: Sleeping with Ghosts on Madeline Sharples Blog

    FEATURED: Sleeping with Ghosts on Madeline Sharples Blog

    Today’s WOW! Blog Tour finds me over at Madeline Sharples’ blog CHOICES as a Guest Writer. Check it out and be sure to sign up for the give-aways!

  • Meet Catherine Steinberg during Authors in The Shop at Guilford Art Center

    Meet Catherine Steinberg during Authors in The Shop at Guilford Art Center

    Saturday, November 9Come celebrate the launch of Catherine Steinberg’s new book Eating Chocolate and Watching the Moon — Spiritual Awakening through Loss and Karmic Resolution. The journey of becoming a mother, expanding the identity of the self and the completion of family karma within a spiritual context are major themes that Catherine Steinberg, psychotherapist, shamanic…

  • 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…