Helena Fox

writer dreamer kindness-ninja

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starting the year off right with some long overdue OTGW fanart!

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I adore this. 

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Start Reading From This YA Novel That's Being Described As 'The Bell Jar' With Ghosts

If heartfelt contemporary YA is your preferred genre, you're going to want to add Helena Fox's upcoming debut, How It Feels to Float, to your 2019 TBR immediately. The book, which hits shelves on May 7, is being described as a modern-day The Bell…

We’re walking on air because @bustle has exclusively revealed the cover and excerpt from Helena Fox’s upcoming YA debut, How It Feels to Float, described as “a modern-day Bell Jar”. 

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Ah!

My book! My book! 

Yes. I wrote one! Yes, it’s coming out next May. Yes, this is my wonderful literary agency talking about my wonderful cover reveal. 

Cup runneth over. So happy right now. 

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Made an e e cummings Zine at Zine Club 🌈 Love my Wednesday afternoons 😊

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This, right here.

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A day out with the family in one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever known … highly recommended for blowing the worries away when your book is out on submission to publishers and you’re waiting to see if your book will become a Book! I swear, I could feel the anxiety lift right off me and go flying with the pelicans, and terns, and kestrels, and little wrens, and other birds I don’t know the name of but were still all kinds of beautiful. What a day.

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Hey Pals! I will be at VanCAF this weekend in the Gym! I’m excited to be in a gym for the first time in over a decade, come say hi!

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Zine Club!

We meet every Wednesday. We eat, we listen to Hamilton, we drink smoothies, we cut, we glue, we write, we draw. We have a fantastic time. There’s a lot of talking! My Zines aren’t perfect and I haven’t got a lot of experience but I’m going to post them here anyway because I think that’s the point of Zine Club 😊☀👍

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Letters from a young poet... A student of mine was going on a trip. "Send me some poems on your travels!" I said. She said, "We're going all over the place; I probably won't have WiFi." "Send me letters then," I said. "The old-fashioned way." I smiled. The look on her face was lovely—a beautiful Yes. And so, that's exactly what she did. ☀

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Morning edits in the sunshine room

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Entrance to another world

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My writing companion. Now helping me with the edits. ❤️

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What a dream I had...

Last night I had a dream that a literary agent was going to take on my novel and had already found me a publisher…on the condition I wrote a murder scene into the book, and turned the novel into a murder mystery. At that point, she assured me, ‘Agatha Christie Publishing’ would publish it. The agent gave me ten minutes to write the murder scene…I was sent off with her assistant to my writing room, set at the top of a tall metal tower we could only get to by some super-fast UFO-like shuttle. When I got to my writing room it was filled with little old ladies catching up and having tea. So I had to go downstairs to the tower atrium to write. Time was running out. My brain was nearly blank, but I gave myself a pep talk into a little mirror set into the wall. Then I wrote and wrote and it was good! When the agent arrived, I showed her my scene. Which I had written in BROCCOLI. Clumps of broccoli sat on the paper, each little floret representing a word I could not remember. I could not for the life of me tell her what I had written. End of dream. :)

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Two and a half years ago — a different book (that had, I think, no actual broccoli in it). An excellent dream. My current novel contains broccoli! (Overcooked.) Progress!

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Beyond thrilled to announce that this week I signed with Catherine Drayton, literary agent for InkWell Management, a New York literary agency! 

Catherine is based in Sydney and New York, and represents a lot of Australian authors for the US market. She is lovely. She is super excited about my book! And life is just wonderful today. 

💙

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Do I sleep or do I watch the moon travel all night?

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When my words are jammed, I like to draw or paint. It’s a relief to let go of language for a few hours…if there’s time, I go to a museum and sketch from one of the paintings. Following the path of another artist’s hand, I start to see differently. I think, Oh, this is where a rabbit’s ears sit on its head. Or, What a tender little foot this saint has. Once I’m done, my vision of the world feels sharper and I am excited to start writing again.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, in this week’s Writers Recommend (Poets & Writers, 2017)

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Evolution

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Interview: Fantastical Vignettes Capture Magical Moments in a Dreamlike World