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Heather Newton’s collection of linked stories, McMullen Circle, is available for pre-order from fine booksellers everywhere.
I'm delighted to share that my next novel, THE BOOK OF TEARS, will be published by Regal House in spring 2028. That seems like a long time but it goes fast! Here's what it's about if you're curious.
I'm over on Substack with a free monthly newsletter CHEERFUL TEARFUL: A MEMOIR IN TOYS.
My great, great grandmothers couldn’t have written a memoir in toys. There were few play-pretties, childhood wasn’t yet an institution, and hard plastic hadn’t been invented. But I, coming along at the tail end of the baby boom in an era of mass production, can write of toys in order to tell of other things: long goodbyes, sibling relationships, birth order, parental best efforts, choices, disappointments, things lost or regretted, the unreliability of memory, and what we really want as opposed to what we are supposed to want. Subscribe and join the discussions! https://hnewton.substack.com/p/cheerful-tearful?r=19q7al
Join me Thursday nights starting June 5th for my 5-week class SUCH A CHARACTER. We’ve all known people whom we have called “characters” (if we haven’t said it aloud we’ve thought it). What makes these people so fascinating, and how can we harvest their traits to make our fictional characters more interesting? This class for […]
Sensory details enrich fiction and nonfiction and are crucial to depicting character, setting and tone, yet writers often fail to give much attention to senses other than sight. Join me and the Great Smokies Writing Program in person this summer for WRITING THE FIVE SENSES: A PROSE WORKSHOP, a generative 5-week class where we will […]
I'm thrilled to share that The Puppeteer's Daughters is the 2023 adult Fiction Winner for this year's Indie Author Project book awards! Learn more about the Indie Author Project and all regional winners here: https://indieauthorproject.com/winners-of-the-2023-indie-author-project-regional-contests/
The Puppeteer's Daughters has been recognized as a Finalist in the 25th annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards! As part of its mission to discover, review, and share the best books from university and independent publishers, Foreword Magazine, Inc. hosts an annual awards program each year. Finalists represent the best books published in 2022. […]
If you or your book club haven't yet read The Puppeteer's Daughters, now is your chance. The paperback is available March 7, 2023. Here is what reviewers have to say: "A complicated father-daughter story that fulfills its promise. Fans of Tara Conklin’s The Last Romantics and Melissa Scholes Young’s The Hive will love this." --Library Journal “An aging, celebrated […]
I'm honored to be in wonderful company as a finalist for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. The other finalists, whose work shows fascinating aspects of our region, are Anne Chesky Smith – Murder at Asheville’s Battery Park Hotel: The Search for Helen Clevenger’s Killer; Lance Greene – Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community’s Resistance to […]
