Lots of Tea

The Novelist: A Novella

Follow copywriter and poet, Laura, as she tries to figure out how to write a novel to meet Megan Willow’s challenge: a book by September.

Megan has a thriving tea business and does everything in a big way. To her, the idea of writing a novel in a matter of months is beyond simple. All you need is the will, and you’ll find the way.

Can Laura write a novel by September? She might not even make a cup of tea by midnight. So who’s to say.

A pleasurable escape. Barkat’s ability to weave poetry into prose makes it impossible not to sink into her beautiful writing. It’s one of those rare books you’ll finish but leave on the nightstand.”

——Darrelyn Saloom, author

Tea on the Side

The Joy of Poetry: How to Keep, Save & Make Your Life With Poems

Megan Willome’s story is one you won’t want to put down.

A great title for retreats, poets & writers’ groups, and book clubs. Or, if you’re a teacher who has ever been asked, “Why poetry?”, this book is the ready answer you’ve been needing.

Includes extras like how to keep a poetry journal (this is not just about putting poems in a journal), how to be a poetry buddy, and how to take a poetry dare.

Megan Willome’s book is many things. An unpretentious, funny, and poignant memoir. A defense of poetry, a response to literature that has touched her life, and a manual on how to write poetry. It’s also the story of a daughter who loses her mother to cancer. The author links these things into a narrative much like that of a novel. I loved this book. As soon as I finished, I began reading it again.

——David Lee Garrison, author

 

Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

Find a place to breathe in both the memoir-stories and tips that address major aspects of creative life—from inspiration to individual voice; from helpful habits, networking and publishing, to reasons we create and write.

Says the first chapter, “There are so many things standing in my way this morning, I can hardly begin. Yet I’ve heard there are rumors of water. Maybe that is enough.” And apparently it is.

One of the most beautiful books on the art & craft of writing that I’ve ever read.

—Diana Trautwein, Amazon review

 

Romantic Tea

“Poet L.L. Barkat is blessed with a talent for metaphor, an eye for the spare image that can shimmer like a polished gem, and a sensuous and lyrical voice — gifts she uses beautifully, even profoundly, in Love, Etc.”

—Maureen Doallas, author

Here’s a blush rose,
with raspberry scent.

Here’s a pink,
come taste the edge.

And here, my dear,
upon the stair,
is simply the hip
of a white-blue rose
I’ve carried up
to bed.

—L.L. Barkat

 

Journal & Prompts

The Yellow Wall-paper Sanity Journal: What to Do in Your Own Four Walls

A witty illustrated creative gift journal based on The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Graphic Novel.

Funny, surprising, mischievous (and sometimes melodramatic) prompts throughout.