HEATHER FOWLER
www.heatherfowlerwrites.com
Novels:
BEAUTIFUL APE GIRL BABY-a fabulist coming of age tale about a woman born apelike, stronger and hairier than others, and trained to believe she is beautiful before meeting the tough spaces outside her wealthy compound that comprise the uncompromising real world.
FIDELITIES--A thoroughly modern story about an upstairs dominatrix in a small urban apartment building who help an unhappily married couple learn to love again--themselves, herself, and each other.
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Short Story Manuscripts:
Seeking Publishers:
ELEGANTLY NAKED IN MY SEXY MENTAL ILLNESS--a collection of literary stories about nudity of the psyche in many displayed varieties, physical, mental, emotional. Stories about pain and heart and mind and trust and a glaringly perpetual failure to communicate. (Stories in this manuscript published or forthcoming in the US, the UK, and online)
LOVESHOCK--experimental and literary stories that discuss alternative lifestyles, infidelity, strange love, and the lasting impact of the kinds of people we never forget in our collective image repertoires. NOTE: see video trailer on site video page. (Stories in this volume have been published in the US, Canada, and online)
PORN FOR TREES--a collection about love and betrayal by deed or pixel in the cyber-age, set around cyber constructs. Stories in this volume have been published in print and online.
THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT PUT OUT--stories about men who, in one way or for one reason or another, would not put out. (Stories in this volume have been published or are forthcoming in the US, the UK, and online.)
All collections above currently seeking a publisher. Contact fowlerhm@hotmail.com for a sample manuscript.
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Poetry Books In Progress--
PAWNSHOP HEART-- A 70 page book of feminist, modern free-verse poetry in progress .
POEMS ON VENUS--A full-length manuscript of romantic and erotic poems like a love letter mourning and acknowledging the pain and complexity of women's thoughts regarding love, eroticism, and sex in romanticized relationships.
FORMS OF LOVE-- An 80 page manuscript of sonnets, sestinas, rondeaus, triolets, blank verse, and ghazals about, you guessed it, love.
THEY WERE CAUTIONARY TALES--A chapbook -length book of poems that re-engages fairy tales earlier than Grimms' for "past the page" conversations-- and interjects a modern third dimension of parlaying the "unsaid."
FOR THOSE WHO TAUGHT ME HOW TO SING, Homage and Parody Poems--A book of intertextual poetry that interfaces and speaks to the art and imagery of many famous artists and poets, such as Ginsberg, Neruda, Angelou, Shakespeare, Klimt, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Plath, etc.