Tag: author life

WHISTLER’S WHISTLE (OR SING) ALONG LIST

Eileen "ike" West, Author 07th 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.)

ABOUT THAT . . . CRUISING AUTHORLAND

Eileen "ike" West, Author 15th 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...

ABOUT THOSE . . . IKE WEST WRITING ROOTS

Eileen "ike" West, Author 22nd 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,...

ABOUT THAT . . . BOOK COVER ON WHISTLER OF PETTY CRIMES

Eileen "ike" West, Author 01st 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

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

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

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

A Birthday Book

Eileen "ike" West, Author 05th 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

I’m On the Move

Eileen "ike" West, Author 23rd 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