Creative Writing Fiction Seminar

Hello, gentle readers. Just to alert you that I am taking Creative Writing Fiction, an upper-level seminar, for my second-to-last semester here. My big project will be writing and workshopping three chapters of Seasons Four Behind Closed Doors. Yay!

And I'm also taking Creative Writing Poetry with Pulitzer-Prize winner and delightful human being Claudia Emerson, so some poems will be showing up here as well.

Sally Odgers Interview Mention

Sally Odgers, my longtime mentor and editor, mentioned Halloween Romance as one of her favorite titles in this interview with Boomerang Books.

"Halloween Romance by Donaya Haymond. This is the first of the Laconia series and is the funny, odd story of werewolf Selene Davidson who just wants to get through college without biting anyone by mistake. She’s drawn to melancholy Ferdinand Anghel who has a strange aversion to some kinds of cuisine."

Vacationing in Thailand right now

...And we went to a restaurant/coffee shop/library where my mother noticed that they had a book she had written - third edition, 1997 - about going to study in America as a young Thai woman, where she met my dad. I wish I could read Thai well enough to read it. But anyway I'm proud.

All current titles now available on Nook

Barnesandnoble.com now joins Amazon.com in having copies of all my novels available in both print and ebook.

The one frustrating thing is that they persist in labeling Waking Echoes for Nook as being written by Donaya "Hammond", even though the rest of the books are all correct. And I haven't been able to get it changed yet. You can find it here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/waking-echoes-donaya-hammond/1023617480?ean=9781615721412

The rest are right here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/donaya-haymond

More options for readers please me. :D

Cover art for Dad and I Are Sort of Human

Art by Amanda Kelsey
Release date November 1, 2012

500 Words a Day Challenge

Like last summer, I am renewing efforts to write at least five hundred words a day. Most days' installments are being posted at http://www.donayahaymond.tumblr.com/ , unless the content turned out embarrassingly personal. I will still post news and tidbits to this blog frequently but if you are somehow a bizarre (but delightful) person who wants to hear from me every day I would suggest focusing your attention on the tumblr. Happy upcoming U.S. Indepedence Day to all.

Breaking News

Book 5 of the Laconia series, Dad and I Are Sort of Human, will be released November 1st. Hooray!