Heather Ayris Burnell

I have recently been given not one, not two, but six blog awards! How crazy is that? Thank you Marcie Colleen , Debbie LaCroix ,  Jennifer...

I was looking through the documents on my computer today and found this. It's the opening paragraph to a query letter that my husband wr...

Yes, I have been a bad blogger lately. Truth be told, John Lechner held up this blog last month and if it wasn't for him there wouldn...

When you live on a dirt road, you tend to drive slowly. Dirt isn't the best surface and when there's only room for one car on the ro...

Life is unpredictable. Yes, we all know that but I've really been experiencing it lately. The sheer amount of weird things happening in ...

I've been thinking a lot about my characters in my novel lately. I know what they look like in my mind and there are some certain things...

Some things that are hard to do with one hand : type - this is the most important one! Who cares about the rest, really. cook - but I got so...

I used to have a teacher that loved to point out the irony in the novels we were reading. He'd say it extra loud, with emphasis, "I...

New Year's Roundup--that sounds too depressing. Yes, I got rejected this year. No, I did not sub or blog as much as I wanted. That about...

I split my shift at work the other day so I could go to my little guy's award ceremony at school. Of course, I jumped out of my car and ...

When I write a story I always write it out longhand first. More times than not a story starts as a scribble on the back of a receipt, a napk...

I had never really thought about it before--my book, Bedtime Monster, being influenced by another book. As I was listening to a talk about W...

I took my fresh, clean, nicely printed and packaged submission package to the post office today. As usual, they didn't quite get it. The...

You know how when you're a kid you always, at some point, want to be a juggler. Of course, I wanted to be other things, but juggling is ...

  If you are planning on camping and you pass a wind farm, drive away, drive very far away. This wind farm is on the southern border of Wash...

Finally, the badminton season is off to a start around here. When I say badminton season I mean that we have put up the net in the yard and ...

I realized something the other day. Something I already knew, but I suppose didn’t occur to me as being significant. I, yes I, was a bedtime...

I have a plan for my blog, an actual plan that I wrote out on a piece of paper with a schedule with actual dates for author interviews, Unre...

I took the winter off of work at the library since the weather is so unpredictable around here. I was skiing/sledding/walking out two miles ...

I picked up my mail at the post office this morning. The only thing there was a big manila envelope. One I'd been waiting for. Really wa...