Nov 29, 2017 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
The wonderful owner of my local bookstore Browsers Bookstore (Andrea Griffith) here in Olympia, Washington has volunteered to fill orders for signed, personalized editions of my novels for the holidays. I get down to Browsers at least once a week, so I’ll drop...
Feb 19, 2017 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
Storytelling is a calling: we manufacture meaning out of events through the act of storymaking. After all, the human experience doesn’t really make sense on a day to day basis. Story is a fabric laid transparent over the bumps and bricks of random occurrence, a map...
Jan 2, 2017 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
Tooltip Text The Eagle Tree was published by Little A Books in 2016 and became a national bestseller, delivered to over 80,000 readers. Thank you for being part of this marvelous publication journey in 2016! Ned Hayes worked with Kindle Select to provide a set of New...
Oct 10, 2016 | Current Ned Note, News and Media, On Writing, Past Notes
(reposted from Amazon’s Transformations blog) He wrote a novel so far outside his comfort zone that he wondered if anyone would enjoy it. Kindle Scout readers answered with a resounding “yes.” New characters often visit novelist Ned Hayes...
Oct 9, 2014 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Everything is relative. You don’t need to be Einstein to understand that. A human is as big to an ant as a building may be to him. However, the world always seems such a huge place; so many countries, cities, forests, oceans, lakes, icebergs. So many animals and...
Jan 15, 2012 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
Glossolalia: speaking in tongues is a powerful poetic exploration of the last years of the 20th century, spoken in a multitude of interlocking tongues. A deep exploration of human experience, ranging from loss and genocide to joy and childbirth, Ned Hayes uses a...
