About Me

In Rome on Honeymoon

My Writing

If you have a moment, I hope you will check out some of my writing samples. My new novel, coming out in November, is a sci-fi novel called Lexi about a robot who falls in love with her maker. I'm putting the finishing touches on my second full-length manuscript, a romantic thriller called Past Lives that begins with a 4-year-old boy drawing a picture of the men who killed him. I'm currently doing research for my new project, a spy vs. spy romance set in Shanghai.

My Reading

I have small children, so I read when I can, and mostly on topics related to my current writing. I love police procedural mysteries, speculative & mundane science fiction, non-linear narratives, and romance, especially if they are set in the late (preferably very late) Victorian/Edwardian period.

I grew up reading Encyclopedia Brown, Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys, Agatha Christie, and Sherlock Holmes, Lois Lowry, Ursula Le Guin, Jane Austen, and Lloyd Alexander.

I have to keep updating this list because I keep finding books I love, but my current favorite authors include:

N.J. Ayers, Alain de Botton, Colin Cotterill, Philip K. Dick, Alane Ferguson, Ford Madox Ford, E.M. Forster, John Linwood Grant, Catherine Lloyd, Linnet Moss, Dorothy Sayers, Georges Simenon, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Sherry Thomas, Connie Willis, and Inger Ash Wolfe (Michael Redhill). I will read anything by these authors; in some case I actually have read everything by these authors because they are that good!

My Background

My educational background includes a degree in Project Management from Keller Graduate School of Management, a masters degree from Yale University in Philosophy of Religion, and a BA in Philosophy from St. John's College.

If you run an internet search on my name, please note:

#1. There is another Heidi Hewett who is a project manager, this is not me.
#2. There is a 1998 Baltimore Sun article about a case of plagiarism that occurred at my college. If you read the article, you will find my name is mentioned because I was the recipient of one of the 3 senior essay prizes awarded that year, unrelated to the case, but the title and the search results are misleading.