Blog - Ike West

ABOUT THAT … TITLE, WHISTLER OF PETTY CRIMES

Eileen "ike" West, Author 07th September 2023

Years ago, I learn from my web designer son, an important marketing strategy regarding book titles and product names. It’s this: make certain the first word of any title/name begins with the letter ‘A’. This

Whistler Gets Another Two Thumbs Up

Eileen "ike" West, Author 30th July 2023

Here's yet ANOTHER PROFESSIONAL REVIEW for Whistler of Petty Crimes This one by Rae Longest - Originally posted on the website blog page of LITERACY & ME, June11, 2023...I thoroughly enjoyed this little volume, and...

Two Thumbs Up For Whistler, AGAIN!

Eileen "ike" West, Author 17th July 2023

Book Reviewer Angel says: “Whistler of Petty Crimes is more than poetry...it's a reflective journey that is easy to follow and love. I really enjoy when a poetry collection intertwines the way this one, Whistler...

Wisdom Keepers Speak

Eileen "ike" West, Author 30th June 2023

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. ― Tom Robbins Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

An Author of Substance

Eileen "ike" West, Author 15th June 2023

How naïve of me to think that people, throughout the English-speaking world, who know nothing about me, would want to read a book of mine. Yet that world is exactly where Whistler of Petty Crimes

More Than Pretty Words

Eileen "ike" West, Author 05th May 2023

I’m sitting on pins and needles, waiting to hear what people have to say about my first poetry collection Whistler of Petty Crimes. I fret a little, worried readers will find it too much about

I Look Forward to…Writing

Eileen "ike" West, Author 21st April 2023

This past summer, in Taos, New Mexico, I spent six weeks nestled inside adobe walls. The walls of the home were thick red mud, caked by man and baked by sun. The garden and patio...

I Look Forward to…Reading

Eileen "ike" West, Author 20th April 2023

Recently, my granddaughter Sophie Eagle and I visited Minneapolis expressly to explore, not the giant Mall of the Americas, but rather a small independent bookshop owned by the Ojibway author, Louise Erdrich. In keeping with

I Look Forward to…Teaching

Eileen "ike" West, Author 19th April 2023

A post-covid phenomenon that seems to linger is that our events-horizons have shortened. That’s just a fancy way of saying most of us are not planning far in advance, at least not in the way

Mission Not Impossible

Eileen "ike" West, Author 14th April 2023

All marketing wizards in the queendom of Authorland want me to spell out my mission. I suppose in common vernacular it means something like this: “Hey Bubbette! Why are you writing?” According to the wise

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