Tag: @wow_womenonwriting

  • GIVE-AWAY from A Wonderful World of Words

    GIVE-AWAY from A Wonderful World of Words

    Today’s WOW! Blog Tour stops at A Wonderful World of Words and includes a chance to win* a free copy of Sleeping with Ghosts! *scroll all the way to the bottom of the blog post

  • BOOK REVIEW by Kaecey McCormick

    BOOK REVIEW by Kaecey McCormick

    Today, the Sleeping with Ghosts WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour stop features a really thoughtful BOOK REVIEW by Kaecey McCormick: If you’re ready to take a thoughtful, heartfelt stroll through memory and meaning, Sleeping with Ghosts is absolutely worth your time. Jen’s gentle but honest voice will stay with you long after the last page…

  • GUEST WRITER: Listening to Your Ghosts

    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…

  • BOOK REVIEW by Beverley Baird

    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…

  • 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…

  • GUEST WRITER: The Importance of Retreat

    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…

  • BOOK REVIEW at Shoe’s Seeds & Stories

    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…

  • INTERVIEW: Jen Payne and Charity Howard

    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…

  • FEATURED: Sleeping with Ghosts on Anthony Avina’s Blog

    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!

  • INTERVIEW: Jen Payne and Kaecey McCormick, Some Thoughts: Everything Creativity

    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,”…

  • FEATURED: Sleeping with Ghosts on The Faerie Review

    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!

  • GUEST WRITER: How One Phone Call in 1996 Led to a Life of Self-Publishing

    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…