Fortune Cookie Prologue

I hope everyone is staying health and safe in these unprecedented times. Please wash your hands regularly, stay six feet away from people and do your best to support those who need some help. 

Read books that you enjoy! If you like, you can read the prologue of my novel Fortune Cookie🥠 for free on the Tightrope Books web site at this link.💜📚

Fortune Cookie Goodreads Giveaway

There's currently a Goodreads Giveaway for a signed copy of my first book, Fortune Cookie. Enter by November 28 for your chance to win. The Goodreads link to the book is here.

My publisher has my books on holiday sale!

My two books, Roll With It, and Fortune Cookie are currently on "festival sale" from Tightrope Books, so here comes the shameless self-promotion: one or both books might make for great holiday gifts!

Charlene Challenger, author of the Aurora nominated The Voices in Between, says she re-reads Fortune Cookie every year—“Heather J Wood’s Fortune Cookie is my annual end-of-the-year read—as classic a tale for me on December 31st as Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is on December 24th.”

It's the little things

OK, I haven't updated this blog in a while, and as it is now December, I thought should post at least once more in 2014. (Note to self: update blog quarterly in 2015!)

Evergreen trees in the snow - just because!

A while back, I participated in that "10 books that stayed with you" list on Facebook. One of the people whom I had tagged to participate in the list-making later mentioned in her comments that she should have also included my first book, Fortune Cookie, on her list. As you might imagine, I was hugely flattered.

Before I was published writer, I had "delusions of grandeur" and assumed I'd be famous and that my words would touch thousands of people. And of course, I'd get to go on Oprah and my books would be bestsellers. Instead, it seems that my words have touched much tinier numbers. But that's OK, as a small press Canadian writer, my audience is not exactly large. However, hearing from the handful who have been moved or affected by my work has made my writing efforts feel meaningful. In the same vein, I have another "fan friend" who reads Fortune Cookie every year as her "end of the year" book, which is both humbling and massively gratifying.

So what I'm trying to say is: for writers like me, it's the little things that make the writing process all worthwhile.