<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Heidi von Palleske]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heidi von Palleske]]></description><link>https://www.heidivonpalleske.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:25:24 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.heidivonpalleske.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[A Maestro Act: Review of The Lost Queen by Heidi Von Palleske --Reviewed by Olga Stein]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heidi Von Palleske’s The Lost Queen is the second in a planned trilogy of novels centred on musically gifted near-identical albino twins, Clara and Blanca. I haven’t yet read the preceding book, Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack (2021), so it took a few chapters into this sequel to get my bearings, but once I did, my, oh my. Von Palleske, who is also a recognized actor and prolific poet, won an HR Percy Award for the manuscript of her first novel, They Don’t Run Red Trains Anymore...]]></description><link>https://www.heidivonpalleske.com/post/a-maestro-act-review-of-the-lost-queen-by-heidi-von-palleske-reviewed-by-olga-stein</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a45375b9c4d1b405b2450ef</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:53:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cc9551_25463ea7bcce41169a6acffccaeb4058~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Heidi von Palleske</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonnets]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE PALLESKEAN SONNET Formal Definition The Palleskean Sonnet  is a contemporary 14-line poetic form created by Canadian writer and poet Heidi von Palleske . Rooted in the architectural elegance of the traditional sonnet, it adapts the form for modern language, voice, and emotional nuance. Like its predecessors, the Palleskean Sonnet is driven by compression, musicality, and turn , yet it resists the strict metrical and rhyming orthodoxies of historical models. Instead, it privileges sonic...]]></description><link>https://www.heidivonpalleske.com/post/sonnets</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68fcec674cd3f117277b2a25</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 15:27:46 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Heidi von Palleske</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[BOOK TWO of THE GLASS EYE TRILOGY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Book Two, THE LOST QUEEN, has been picked up by Dundurn Press Canada. It is 12 years later, But they are all back - Blanca, Jack, Gareth,...]]></description><link>https://www.heidivonpalleske.com/post/book-two-of-the-glass-eye-trilogy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">682ff5b81130e3f931845990</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 04:17:22 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Heidi von Palleske</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curl Up and I'll Tell You a STORY]]></title><description><![CDATA[TWO WHITE QUEENS AND THE ONE-EYED JACK AUDIO BOOK It was a challenge - all those accents I had to do. And it was muggy-hot in the studio...]]></description><link>https://www.heidivonpalleske.com/post/curl-up-and-i-ll-tell-you-a-story</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66e378b6d4870ab16696817d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 23:27:25 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Heidi von Palleske</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE FORWARD REVIEW]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Forward Review Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack Heidi von Palleske Dundurn  ( Mar 9, 2021 ) Softcover  $18.99  ( 304pp...]]></description><link>https://www.heidivonpalleske.com/post/the-forward-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66c50118f2c9f0494ef465c9</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:48:25 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Heidi von Palleske</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literary Fiction Finalist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack is a finalist for the FORWARD REVIEW book awards!  It is in the literary adult fiction category....]]></description><link>https://www.heidivonpalleske.com/post/literary-fiction-finalist</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6233f30c7882489365c4bc46</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2022 02:50:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Heidi von Palleske</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[JUNCTION READS]]></title><description><![CDATA[I launched my book, 'Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack, during the pandemic and the usual launch and subsequent public readings were...]]></description><link>https://www.heidivonpalleske.com/post/junction-reads</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6144c13562995100161b2498</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:42:23 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Heidi von Palleske</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[GIRLY BOOK CLUB RECOMMENDS TWO WHITE QUEENS AND THE ONE-EYED JACK]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rating: 4/5 Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack draws the reader in through the masterful interconnectedness of its characters. The...]]></description><link>https://www.heidivonpalleske.com/post/girly-book-club-recommends-two-white-queens-and-the-one-eyed-jack</link><guid isPermaLink="false">610be421429758001519ed33</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 13:15:01 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Heidi von Palleske</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVIEW FROM MIRAMICHI READER]]></title><description><![CDATA[This has to be one of my favourite reviews to date! The Miramichi Reader Canada’s Best-Regarded Source For The Finest In New Literary...]]></description><link>https://www.heidivonpalleske.com/post/review-from-miramichi-reader</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60bcb510e2f2f20016673f5e</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2021 11:47:33 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Heidi von Palleske</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE EYE'S STORM by Daniel Baird (Review of Two White Queens and the One-eyed Jack)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Eye’s Storm Review of Two White Queens and the One-eyed Jack by Heidi von Palleske/Dundurn Press Just before the Winter Solstice, the...]]></description><link>https://www.heidivonpalleske.com/post/the-eye-s-storm-by-daniel-baird-review-of-two-white-queens-and-the-one-eyed-jack</link><guid isPermaLink="false">603e5ea1cd92e600169d5742</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:53:18 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Heidi von Palleske</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE FORWARD BOOK REVIEW]]></title><description><![CDATA[So pleased with the following review from The Forward Magazine of Book Reviews. TWO WHITE QUEENS AND THE ONE-EYED JACK Heidi von Palleske...]]></description><link>https://www.heidivonpalleske.com/post/the-forward-book-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">603a812fdf327b00597bc55b</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:30:26 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Heidi von Palleske</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>