Come join me! — Boise Comic Arts Festival

Come visit the fun downtown Boise, Idaho this weekend!!!!

I’ll have a table at the Boise Comic Arts Festival this weekend at the JUMP center! I’ll have all of my books there to purchase and sign! 5th floor – next to the VR setup!!! #geekgirl #bcaf19

It’s both Saturday and Sunday from 10 am – 5 pm. Family fun down in the courtyard, 5th floor, and 6th floor!

http://www.boisepubliclibrary.org/bcaf

-Heather

Lost Time and Pivot!

Where in the world did December go?? I felt the month of December was a holding time, as if I was slowly, excruciatingly just waiting around for something to happen. Maybe for the busyness of the holidays to be over. Or maybe it was because I was working hard to set my goals for 2019. Or maybe I was just impatiently waiting for my third Delta Fringe bookto finally be released to the world!! Probably, all of the above.

Farewell, December 2018!

Patience is definitely tested when you’re juggling deadlines and multiple jobs. Throw in health issues, good and bad family events, and you have a recipe for quite the roller coaster ride!

And now it’s the third week of January and my carefully thought out goalsare already destroyed for the year.

Not really destroyed, but changed.More like morphed into something more colorful, beautiful, and exciting than I could have come up with for myself. I love it when the universe shows us that there is more out there than what we can imagine!

I’m normally a very goal-oriented person. I love checklists, sticky note reminders all over the house, to-do calendars, vision boards, and long-term and short-term goals. I took December to set all these up for 2019. I was ready for 2019.

One of the practices I adopted a few years back that I find one of the most useful is called “My 3 Words.” I learned this practice from Chris Brogan. See his 2019 blog here. My three words for 2019 are Focus, Gratitude, and Leadership. I imagined these would work nicely with my expanding author business. Focus on writing, have gratitude for all the people and opportunities in my path (these have been amazing over the years!), and leadership for the middle grade and high school mentoring I love to do.

And then January flipped me on my head. Where December was a slow crawl to the finish line, January has fueled my creative flame, given me opportunitiesI didn’t see coming, and most importantly, showed me how to pivot with grace.

Many of the items on my 2019 goals list will stay the same:

  • I still intend to publish 6-8 books this year.
  • I will continue to learn and grow in my writing and marketing.
  • I even invested in a Masterclass subscription and look forward to getting through all the writing classes, and of course Chris Hadfield’s class on all things space!

But now I’m aware that I will need to limit my Netflix time, useless social activities, and the number of conferences I go to this year. This way I can focus more on writing and the other opportunities that have presented themselves in my life.

This is pivoting. Just like in the show Friends. The one with the couch. 🙂 I’m still doing the same stuff – writing, speaking, learning – it just might look a little different than I had originally planned. And I’m all right with that.

A few of the long-term projects and opportunities I can’t reveal just yet. I promise as soon as I can I will let my newsletter and blog readers know first!!!! So keep reading this blog or sign up for my newsletterto find out what is coming next for me this year!

In the short term, I’m excited for the release of the boxset for books 1-3 of the Delta Fringe seriesthis week! If you haven’t read this newest series of mine yet, now you can binge-read all three! (My amazing covers are done by Elle at Evernight Designs!)

Keep writing and creating!

-Heather

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Website: www.heatherleedyer.com

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Facebook: www.facebook.com/heatherleedyer/

Amazon: Amazon Author Page

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Talking about Creativity Over Perfection on the Born to Write Podcast!

Heather Lee Dyer on the Born to Write Podcast with Azul Terronez

An amazing opportunity – a podcast interview with book coach Azul Terronez!

I was working on my second YA SF series when I decided to write a nonfiction book.

It wasn’t planned and in fact I had mentioned to one of my good friends that I would “never” write a nonfiction book. I didn’t think I had anything to offer. What would I write about? What advice or value could I offer other writers?

Then I heard Azul Terronez on The Front Row Factor podcast with Jon Vroman. As I’ve mentioned before I LOVE podcasts! This is one of many I listen to.

Azul talked about his years of teaching and how creativity isn’t a priority in most schools. Most curriculums emphasize spelling and grammar and basically teach to the standardized tests. Azul, however, found ways to focus more on the creative side of writing in his classrooms. This resonated with some of the good and bad experiences I had in school with my creative writing and teachers that tried to either enlighten or dampen my creative freedom.

He also discussed how writing a book can encourage and help others. Since I was already mentoring a few middle grade and high school classes in creativity writing, it occurred to me as Azul spoke that this could be another way for me to reach others who want to write a book. I took Azul up on his invitation for a free Skype book coaching session and instantly I felt a bond with him. I was later chosen to receive a scholarship to his Authors Writing Academy. I was so overjoyed and humbled to have such an amazing opportunity!

Writing the book!

This past year I have worked with Azul to write Creativity Over Perfection: The World Needs Your Book! I learned so much from Azul and from the actual writing of this book. I grew not only as a writer, but I was able to finally process some of the events that happened during my childhood. This book is not only motivation and encouragement for everyone to write that book in their heart, but a look into how I became a writer and how I overcame many obstacles to get to where I am today.

Pick up a copy of my book today and listen to the podcast for behind the scenes details of how and why I wrote it.

Keep writing, keep reading! And if you want the first sneak peeks of my upcoming book covers and news of speaking events, join my email list here on my website where it says: SIGN UP HERE FOR NEW ADVENTURES AND UPDATES!

-Heather

Listen to the podcast here: Heather Lee Dyer – Born to Write podcast interview

Station Coroner, Book 1 of My New Series is Here!

Just a quick note to all my super awesome readers about my newest book launch!!!

I’m so excited that it’s here! This book was a lot of fun to write and I had a (morbidly) awesome time writing it. And don’t worry – it’s still great for all audiences!

Coroner Station, Book 1 of my new Delta Fringe Series is here! Today it’s available as an e-book, to be shortly followed by paperback!

Here’s the back cover description:

“I don’t mind working with the dead, it’s the live ones that I’m afraid of.” 

Forced to leave her peaceful home on Mars Colony after the death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Brenna Teves moves to Delta Station at the outer edge of the galaxy to live and work with her father who is the station’s coroner. 

In order to survive and find her place in this fringe community of hardy explorers, space pirates, and classmates that have nicknamed her la muerta – the dead girl, Bren must overcome her anxieties and rely on strengths she didn’t realize she had. 

As the coroner’s daughter Bren finds herself investigating the disappearance of crew members from a science ship found abandoned in the Fringe, only to discover a far more deadly secret. A secret that not only threatens all the lives on Delta Station, but everyone living near the Fringe.

Station Coroner is the first book of the YA science fiction Delta Fringe Series that features interstellar adventure, mystery, a bit of romance, and a heroine in an unusual career. 

Get your copy today on Amazon!

Look for the Delta Fringe book 2 to be released in September 2018!

-Heather

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