Heather Holland Wheaton wrote her first book, Tales of Wheaton Manor in 4^th grade social studies class. It told the fictitious saga of her family’s life in feudal England and was bound in a piece of fabric that looked like a medieval tapestry. The book earned critical acclaim (and an A+) from Mrs. Longley and was displayed on the class bulletin board.

 

Since then, Wheaton has gone on to a myriad of other writing projects—most recently, Eight Million Stories in a New York Minute, Wet Paint and the soon-to-be-published You Are Here. Because of its unique size (small enough to fit in your back pocket without creating an unsightly bulge) and the snappy writing, Eight Million Stories garnered a cult following and has sold nearly 2000 copies.

 

Her work has also appeared in Slipstream,The Morning News, P.I.M. and Every Day Fiction. For three years, she wrote “Haley’s Comment,” a weekly serial on Penthouse.com.

  

She lives in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC and pays the rent working as a tour guide on those big, red double-decker buses—a job, she says that’s perfect for her. “I’m writing a story about New York every day, a story that’s different every day, a story that I’ll never actually finish writing.”