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WHISTLER’S WHISTLE (OR SING) ALONG LIST

Eileen "ike" West, Author07th December 2023

The following six song titles make for easily banked together quasi-Haiku. Please, lyrical reader, merely look down the list of titles, and you’ll see it is so. (Ah, poetry. It shows up everywhere.)
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ABOUT THAT . . . CRUISING AUTHORLAND

Eileen "ike" West, Author15th November 2023

Whistler of Petty Crimes is my third published book, and each manuscript ends up handled by three distinct publishing companies, and a grand variety of pro’s. In my experience every publishing outlet proves unique in...
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ABOUT THOSE . . . IKE WEST WRITING ROOTS

Eileen "ike" West, Author22nd October 2023

I started so young. While my grade school friends play school teacher and/or hospital nurse, I imagine myself writer and editor. My fantasy job involves dissecting letters to the editor out of American Girl Magazine,...
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ABOUT THAT . . . BOOK COVER ON WHISTLER OF PETTY CRIMES

Eileen "ike" West, Author01st October 2023

Sure, I love my book cover at first sight. Wow! The colors! A full rainbow of them. And, how about that lovely little lady who’s taking ‘a flying leap’ over what seems to be a
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ABOUT THAT … TITLE, WHISTLER OF PETTY CRIMES

Eileen "ike" West, Author07th 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
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Wisdom Keepers Speak

Eileen "ike" West, Author30th June 2023

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

Eileen "ike" West, Author15th 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
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Mission Not Impossible

Eileen "ike" West, Author14th 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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A Birthday Book

Eileen "ike" West, Author05th April 2023

My birth was rocky back in 1949. For me, life began with a weak pulse. Premature almost a full month, I spent weeks fighting my way past the incubator cage and into the world. Every
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I’m On the Move

Eileen "ike" West, Author23rd March 2023

It is a really hectic time for me—packing up to move from Texas to Oregon. This time for good. Just a few days and I’m really truly off. My final few days after 40 plus
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