Bedtime Stories: The short, long and tall tales of a sleepwriter
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Bedtime Stories: The short, long and tall tales of a sleepwriter is published in print by Great Little Books LLC and is available for sale from the author at https://www.ebay.com/str/barbarawortonbooks. For more information about Bedtime Stories or scheduling Barbara for an event, please contact barbara@barbaraworton.com.
And here’s what Bedtime Stories is all about:
“Earning her zzzzzzs…”
What pops into your head before you try to fall asleep? Five baby pickles, rubber duckies, 13 days of rain, the Lincoln Tunnel, a G-String and dancing cows are some of the ideas that pop into Barbara Worton's head. So, she picks up a pen and notebook, writes down those words and keeps going for three pages. She calls this technique, which she learned from The Artist's Way by Julian Cameron and Mark Bryan, sleepwriting. Sleepwriting is Barbara's way of talking herself to sleep. It's a conversation that takes place in her head. Fortunately, she has put all that private talk down on paper. For those who read Bedtime Stories, it's a call to see ordinary things, people and places in refreshing ways. Barbara and her tales give us a range of emotional permission. These are tales of love, nostalgia, sex, wishes, growing-up and the absurd; tales to start you dreaming or rev your creative engine, and tales you'll never forget. Bedtime Stories: The short, long and tall tales of a sleepwriter is a great read. This book engages, entertains and enlightens. The stories are little cocktail parties on the page. They are both funny and profound, soothe and challenge you to think and feel—and teach you to write yourself to a peaceful sleep.
Some Love for Bedtime Stories:
“I enjoyed every delicious page of Barbara Worton’s book, Bedtime Stories but also found it deeply disturbing, as she writes better half-asleep than I do fully awake.” Ed Begley, Jr., Actor & Activist
““Barbara Worton is a born storyteller. Sometimes provocative, sometimes hilarious, but always honest. The stories are mini flights of fictional fancy crafted around the ordinary objects present in our daily lives. Uninhibited, richly textured and beaming with a quiet brilliance that touches the soul, Bedtime Stories gives you permission to set your imagination free and encourages you to find meaning in the mundane… Refreshing, chock-full of personality and written with an awe inspiring clarity of spirit that is thoroughly entertaining, this is a perfect stocking stuffer or birthday gift for the book lover in your life. You will read and re-read these stories, as this is one of those rare books that is meant to be savored, slowly and often. Adorable, amusing and thought provoking, sleep-stories are as addictive as chocolate.” R.J. McGill, Reviewer
“For those of us who have had the opportunity to read Bedtime Stories, it is a call to see ordinary things in refreshing ways…to breathe bigger… The tales—in all kinds of forms: stories, poems, haikus—and what Barbara does, ultimately, gives us a range of emotional permission… And when we turn the last page, we are left with a smile in our mind.” Rochelle Udell, artist, creative director
“I love Bedtime Stories. The book is a memoir in stories and poems. Barbara writes about the everyday, the mundane, the quirky and makes it beautiful.” Paul Rabinowitz, Author
“These are not really stories. Nor are they likely to soothe an overtired child. They’re something else—gossamer, appealing, annoying. And insistent. They jab away at your resistance.” Jesse Kornbluth, Editor, HeadButler.com
