Tag: beauty and humor through stories

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 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

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

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

Every Thought’s a Prayer

Eileen "ike" West, Author 30th January 2021

Recently, one of my friends and a member of the Texas Circle, made a comment about navigating the divisiveness between segments of the America public. “We’ve gotta watch everything we say.” She alluded to how