Writing with your Muse: A Guide to Creative Inspiration
About this ebook
“This book is a must for writers searching for new ideas and methods to release their creative energy. Hawkin is refreshingly honest about her own experiences, establishing her expertise with gentle humor and humility. The book is packed with options and ideas to encourage writers to explore their own inner spiritual and creative sides. If writing is a journey, then Hawkin is the perfect guide to its unexplored and untamed reaches: inspiring, forthright, and inventive.” —Marie Powell, Last of the Gifted series
“I’m so thankful Hawkin wrote this unique and beautiful writing book. It is, at once, a craft tool and a spiritual journey guided by a skillful, compassionate mentor. Hawkin’s gentle approach to teaching (she's a former academic and teacher) makes this stand out from other writing craft books.”—Sionnach Wintergreen, Men of the Shadows series
About the author
W. L. Hawkin writes the kind of books she loves to read from her home in the Pacific Northwest. Because she’s a genre-blender, you might find crime, mystery, romance, suspense, fantasy, adventure, and even time travel interwoven in her stories.
If you like “myth, magic, and mayhem,” her Hollystone Mysteries feature a coven of West Coast witches who solve murders using ritual magic and a little help from the gods. The books—To Charm a Killer, To Sleep with Stones, To Render a Raven, To Kill a King, and To Dance with Destiny—follow Estrada, a free-spirited, bisexual magician and coven high priest, as he endeavors to save his family and friends while sorting through his own personal issues.
Her standalone novel, Lure: Jesse & Hawk (2022), won a National Indie Excellence Award, a Gold Reader’s Choice award from Connections E-magazine, a Crowned Heart Review from InD’tale Magazine, and was a finalist in the UK Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Lure is a small-town romantic suspense story set on a Chippewa Reservation in the American Midwest near the fictional town of Lure River.
Hawkin graduated from Trent University with a B.A. in Indigenous Studies. She then went on to study English literature at S.F.U. in British Columbia and teach high school. When life became too stressful for this introvert, she took a year off to work as a lighthouse keeper on the Northwest Pacific Coast. Those experiences are the inspiration for an upcoming book. She found her voice publishing poetry and Native Rights articles in Canadian news magazines, and she is now an author and publisher at Blue Haven Press.
Wendy is a regular reviewer for the Ottawa Review of Books. A member of the Federation of B.C. Writers and the Writers Union of Canada, she actively engages with readers and writers at conferences and is represented by Creative Edge Publicity. She also loves to design books and offers design, formatting, editing, and mentoring services to other writers.
A seeker and mystic, Wendy is fascinated by language, spirituality, and myth. As an intuitive writer, Wendy captures on the page what she sees and hears and allows her muses to guide her through the creative process. She needs to feel the energy of the land, so although she’s an introvert, in each book her characters go on a journey where she’s traveled herself. In her upcoming book, Writing With Your Muse: a Guide to Creative Inspiration, she explains her writing process and offers techniques and strategies to help writers get their words on the page.
If you don’t find her at Blue Haven Press, she’s out walking the forests and beaches of Vancouver Island with her beautiful yellow dog.
