{"id":161,"date":"2016-09-09T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T22:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnworsley.name\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2023-05-17T19:05:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T02:05:51","slug":"intro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heart Has No Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am the author of the book <em>My Heart Has No Home: A Journal of Grief and Healing<\/em>, a moment-by-moment account of my experience grieving the sudden death of my wife, Amy K.W. Heil \u2013 what I felt, how I healed, and what I learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where to buy <em>My Heart Has No Home<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B09Z15L7CY\"><strong>Amazon paperback and Kindle<\/strong><\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/id6442826876\"><strong>Apple Books<\/strong><\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/my-heart-has-no-home\"><strong>Kobo<\/strong><\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/my-heart-has-no-home-john-r-worsley\/1141656273?ean=2940185597088\"><strong>B&amp;N and Nook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been interviewed on several podcasts about my grief story, and about the book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/meghanrjarvis.podbean.com\/e\/john-worsley-a-widower-writes-his-grief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grief Is My Side Hustle<\/a><\/em> by Meghan Riordan Jarvis, on 12\/16\/2022<\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/grieftrails.buzzsprout.com\/2051794\/12150658-ep-6-window-into-one-man-s-grief-with-john-r-worsley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grief Trails<\/a><\/em> by Amanda Kernahan, on 2\/8\/2023<\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1815497\/12472051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To My Life\u00ae with Laura Muirhead<\/a><\/em>, on 3\/22\/2023<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>About me: I want to identify as a screenwriter, but as with most of my 25-year IT career, I find myself collecting multiple hats in my literary pursuits. I have always loved playing with words, and remember at the age of four referring to my elbow as my &#8220;ell bone&#8221; \u2013 because my arm was ell shaped. Growing up, I read constantly (200 books one summer for a library contest), engaged in creative word usement with my siblings (many nouns were verbed), and actually enjoyed writing essays in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In high school I began to see myself as a writer, thanks to a creative writing class \u2013 where I wrote my first story by imagining it as a movie \u2013 and encouragement from my favorite English teacher.&nbsp; In college, I tried to become a geophysicist, but ended up with a job writing press releases and a B.A. in Linguistics (perhaps the acme of word and language geekery), after which I stumbled into IT.&nbsp; Even then, I still often found myself crafting with words as a technical writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along the way, I dabbled with short poetry, flash fiction, short stories, a novelette, and a novel, and starting a non-fiction book on sustainability.&nbsp; Then in 2007, I discovered and fell in love with screenwriting, which became the focus of my writing life.&nbsp; Well, except for the long poem I published in 2016.&nbsp; And the memoir I ghostwrote in 2017.&nbsp; And the graphic novel project I started in 2019.&nbsp; And that playwriting class.&nbsp; And now this new non-fiction book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnworsley.name\/?page_id=486\">number of projects<\/a> in various stages, from a short story in need of a publisher, to a couple short films, to feature film scripts, to graphic novels (one based on my <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/newmyths.com\/nmwebsite\/poems\/nevermore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published poem<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-huge-font-size\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the author of the book My Heart Has No Home: A Journal of Grief and Healing, a moment-by-moment account of my experience grieving the sudden death of my wife, Amy K.W. Heil \u2013 what I felt, how I healed, and what I learned. Where to buy My Heart Has No Home: Amazon paperback&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/\" title=\"My Heart Has No Home\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Heart Has No Home<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-me","post-161","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}