Songs of Praise, Power, and Pain: John Hamilton’s Honest to God Playlist
I cannot listen to music while I am writing. Perhaps because the act of making music preceded, for me, the act of making words make sense on paper. It doesn’t matter what style of music—I have tried classical music, lo-fi, jazz. Nothing works. My ear is immediately drawn to the sound and my concentration is […]
My Journey from Ad Guy to Spiritual Beachcomber
Earlier this year, after forty years in advertising, I walked away from my career and its accompanying six-figure salary. Sure, I was approaching retirement age, but I knew I still had some gas in the tank. I could have successfully continued in my job as a pharma advertising copywriter for another five years or so. […]
Introducing Ava O’Malley, Our New Book Publicist
Hello there, everyone! My name is Ava and I recently joined Wildhouse Publishing as the new Book Publicist. I’m so excited to begin this new adventure, and to direct the blog posts that will be forthcoming from our brilliant authors, editors, and leadership. My goal is for the Wildhouse blog to become a hub […]
Wildhouse Poetry 2023 Chapbook Contest Winners
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Meridian by Julie Sumner (November 2023), winner of the inaugural Wildhouse Poetry chapbook contest. The 2023 chapbook contest, con/verge/nces, was judged by the award-winning poet Jane Hirshfield, whose work and ethos exemplifies Wildhouse Poetry’s intention to publish poems that point toward our connectedness with the wider […]
Peg O’Connor, Higher and Friendly Powers
Peg O’Connor William James As a grad student at Harvard, I’ve walked by the towering William James Hall more times than I can count. I knew William James was an early giant in the study of human perception and psychology, but I never imagined there might be a connection between his work and the famous […]
Disruption is a Doorway to Creative Transformation
Disruption is a Doorway to Creative Transformation Ours is an uneasy age. Pandemic confusion and isolation, Facebook tribalism, rancorous political divisions and a general distrust of authority are stripping the rivets which have long held our civic life together. Institutions across all sectors are reeling, including organized religion, which has ceded its once unquestioned primacy […]
Author Confession: My Experiences of Traditional Publishing
Honestly, in a word, my experience of traditional publishing has been… mixed. I shall explain. But first I’ll say what I’m talking about. Traditional publishing is when the publisher takes all the financial risks of the publishing process and the author gets royalties, and sometimes an advance against royalties. Royalties are typically low, which makes […]
Meet the Wildhouse Audience
We’re launching the Wildhouse blog by telling you about our audience. If you’re reading this, you’re probably part of that audience, though you might not realize how diverse it is – or should I say, how diverse we are. I once addressed a crowd of non-religious folk, mostly atheists, in an environment where it was […]
