Happy Birthday, My Sweet Baby Girl Who Now Reviews Books! #MFRWOrg

Photo (c)12/7/2013 by Kim Headlee.
Enigma Bookstore, Astoria, NY.

The Business of Writing is kicking off the holiday hiatus by celebrating the birthday of my youngest! 

Jessica is in her second year studying Marine Science, with an interest in coral reef preservation. She is an avid reader, writer, and poet, has created art for two of my novels (all the character glyphs for Snow in July, and two for Liberty), has had Snow in July art incorporated into two of the illustrations for King Arthur's Sister in Washington's Court, and has begun her own book review blog called Of Books and Pen. She cross-posts her reviews on Goodreads and Tumblr.

Jessica welcomes authors' queries for reviewing e-books, print books, and audiobooks, but she will not read:

• Horror
• Erotica
• Any fiction written predominantly from the villain's perspective
• Any fiction centering on rape, incest, pedophilia, BDSM, bestiality, and other themes of this nature.

For more information, please visit her submission policy page.

She has yet to read any of my novels, even those for which she provided art—but that's okay; it took her older brother until he was well into his 20s before he read (and discovered that he liked) my books. :D

Please join me in wishing Jessica a very happy birthday!

The Business of Writing will get back to business on The Maze
Wednesday, January 6, 2016.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year,
and I hope you enjoy whatever else you celebrate. :)

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Those who aspire to greatness
must first learn servanthood.

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— Leave a comment on any page of The Maze, especially if you have done the Twitter, Pinterest, and/or YouTube follow
...and each action this month is good for one chance to win an e-book copy of Raging Sea: Reckonings. Please enter often, and good luck!

The Dawnflier, July 2014

Welcome to the July 2014 issue of The Dawnflier, which I may have to subtitle “Proud Mama Rides Again!”

What you see on the right is my lovely & talented daughter Jessica in her costume as the Science Officer aboard the USS Lexington on the set of Star Trek New Voyages—or Phase II or whatever it is they're calling this YouTube series these days... okay, so call me “Clueless Proud Mama!” I do know that she did not die in the episode, and she helped with lighting & other duties behind the scenes, and generally had a great time.

I’m also proud to announce that our joint venture—my words & Jessica’s art—Snow in July is now available as an ebook for Kindle, Nook, iPad & Kobo for a special launch price on all platforms of $0.99! And the print edition is in the setup phase at IngramSpark and should be available soon. I will definitely keep you posted. Meantime, feel free to enter the Goodreads giveaway!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Snow in July

by Kim Iverson Headlee

Giveaway ends July 31, 2014.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Also, there has been a change in the Blog Tour schedule for Snow in July. The week-long Launch Blast will be July 24-31, and sign-ups may be made by filling out this form. The 30-day Blog Tour will be October 1-30, and I will post that link as soon as possible.

Thank you very much for your continued support of my work—and if you have already signed up, I thank you twice! If you haven't already done so, once you have signed up to host a tour stop, please leave a comment to that effect on this post to be entered into my exclusive drawing to win a print copy.

If you happen to be in Wytheville for WyVaCon on Saturday, July 27th, please stop in and say hi!

As always, you are invited to...
— Follow me on Twitter
— Add me to Google+
— Comment on this post (especially if you have done the Twitter follow)
...and each action is good for one chance to win an ebook of your choice, either Dawnflight or Snow in July.

Meantime, I hope you all live long and prosper!