Location: Canada
Member Since: Nov. 17, 2009
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Heather Wardell


Biography

Growing up, I was an avid (rabid?) reader. I am a natural speed reader, regularly clocked at about 1200 wpm (I read Harry Potter 5 in just under three hours), and always have several books on the go and many more in e-book form on my Palm handheld.

I have always made up stories in my head, but never really thought I would be a writer. Instead, I intended to be a high school music teacher. I was sidetracked by my enjoyment of my psychology courses in university, and ended up with a psychology degree with a concentration in computer science.

This took me to a major Canadian bank as a software developer. I stayed there for just over three years, and then went back to school to become an elementary school teacher. After four years of fun teaching elementary school computer science, I took up the National Novel Writing Month challenge and attempted to write a novel in a month.

I succeeded, and the first draft of "Life, Love, and a Polar Bear Tattoo" was the result. I realized I love writing. I left teaching, and I haven't looked back since!

Where to find Heather Wardell online

Website: http://www.heatherwardell.com
Twitter: HeatherWardell
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Books

Finding My Happy Pace    by Heather Wardell
Price: $0.99 USD. 77990 words. Published on May 11, 2012. Fiction.
0.5 star(4.50 from 2 reviews)
If thirty-year-old Megan were any more of a doormat, she'd have footprints on her back. She takes up running to strengthen her body, but marathon training with cute but heartbroken coach Andrew strengthens her assertiveness too. When her best friend's demands threaten her race Megan must decide: cave in as she always has before or stick to her new-found 'happy pace' in running and life.
Toronto Collection Vol. 1    by Heather Wardell
Price: $2.99 USD. 323940 words. Published on November 30, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Read Heather Wardell's first novel, the free "Life, Love, and a Polar Bear Tattoo", and want more? Here's a collection of the four complete novels ("Go Small or Go Home", "Planning to Live", "Stir Until Thoroughly Confused", "A Life That Fits") that follow the first book at a terrific price! Happy reading!
Blank Slate Kate    by Heather Wardell
Price: $0.99 USD. 81270 words. Published on November 24, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Waking up with a strange man is scary. Realizing you lost fifteen years of your life overnight? That's terrifying. With her memories from seventeen to thirty-two gone, Kate has no idea who she is and where she belongs. As she begins to fall for the man who found her, she wonders if she forgot those years for a reason. Should she keep trying to retrieve her original self, or start a new life?
Live Out Loud    by Heather Wardell
Price: $0.99 USD. 76720 words. Published on September 1, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 2 reviews)
Songwriter Amy wants to honor her late best friend by starting the support center for teenage girls they'd planned when they were just girls themselves. When her song becomes an internet sensation she sees how to get the money she needs, but soon realizes she adores her new pop star career. She must choose: create the center she needed herself as a teen or truly become Misty Will, pop princess.
A Life That Fits    by Heather Wardell
Price: $0.99 USD. 81990 words. Published on May 30, 2011. Fiction.
0.25 star(4.33 from 3 reviews)
Twenty-eight-year-old Andrea is devastated when her boyfriend of fourteen years leaves her for a woman he calls Andrea's opposite. Determined to get him back, Andrea changes everything in her life. New clothes, new activities, new friends... she'll be her opposite in no time. But will she change enough to get Alex back? And if she does, will he fit into her new life?
Stir Until Thoroughly Confused    by Heather Wardell
Price: $0.99 USD. 92480 words. Published on December 23, 2010. Fiction.
Mary's given up everything, including an unsatisfying marriage, to become a chef. But the career comes with a side dish: Kegan, her sexy but controlling new boss. They're soon in a relationship, and in all-too-frequent arguments, and when it becomes clear they can't work together and be together Mary faces a dilemma: keep her dream job or her dream man?
Planning to Live    by Heather Wardell
Price: $0.99 USD. 72830 words. Published on September 9, 2010. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Determined to lose weight for her best friend's wedding, goal-obsessed Rhiannon flees her parents' Christmas Day feast to avoid overeating but her car skids off the deserted road into a tree. Trapped and bleeding, with her cell phone out of reach, she struggles to escape, and to accept that she's spent her whole life planning but hasn't ever really lived. Will she get the chance to change that?
Go Small or Go Home    by Heather Wardell
Price: $0.99 USD. 80650 words. Published on March 7, 2010. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
When massage therapist and aspiring artist Tess begins treating stressed but attractive hockey star Forrest, her art career soars due to his gallery-owning mother, but her creativity plummets under the weight of rules and deadlines. Soon, she's lost the freedom and joy she'd always found in art. Is having her dream career worth losing doing her art her way, or can she somehow have both at once?
Life, Love, and a Polar Bear Tattoo    by Heather Wardell
Price: Free! 94680 words. Published on November 17, 2009. Fiction.
1 star(4.88 from 8 reviews)
When Candice's in-laws died in a car accident eight months ago, she lost her husband Ian too. After only two years of marriage their guilt and pain have left them living together but apart. During Ian's month-long trip overseas, Candice plans to decide if her marriage can be saved, but when the first man she ever loved is the new client at work, she wonders what she truly wants from life and love.

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