Heide AW Kaminski

Hello everyone and welcome to my new website.

My name is Heide AW Kaminski and the AW is my trademark. It stands for Annemarie-Wyse, which is my original maiden name hyphenated with my ex-husband's last name. I kept that so I would somewhat have the same name as my children.

Then I realized that my initials spell HAWK, so I adopted that as my spirit name. I see myself as a majestic bird soaring the infinite skies...

I live in a small town in SE Michigan, but I am originally from Germany. My first encounter with the USA was in 1976, when I ventured across the ocean to be an exchange student for a year.

My family was so cool that we stayed closely connected. On one of my follow-up visits with a six months visa I ended up getting married to an American and I stayed. I got divorced since then and remarried and divorced again… Sigh (I am more writer material than marriage material, I guess…) Now I have three children, Sarah (born 1986), Angela (born 1989) and Tommy (born 1998).

I have been a writer ever since I learned how to manouver a crayon across paper.

My first paying writing job was writing poetry for two competing aunts. They competed over who paid me more for my poems and being a greedy person I took advantage of that for several years!

Then I bought myself a beat-up old type writer at age 13 and taught myself the 10-finger-system.

To make a long career short, I am currently the published author of three print books. One is being reworked as a bilingual book (German/English) and you can view it at www.rainerbrem.de

and then proceed to "buch illustrationen.”

I have also been published in 15+ anthologies and I have been moonlighting as a newspaper reporter/photographer since 2000.

I am also starting an ebook series and my first ebook “Sun Serai” is now available at www.shadowbooks.homestead.com/homepage.html.

The novel “The Search For The Million$$$ Ghost” was co-written by myself and my two friends Dorothy Thompson and Pam Lawniczak. Just hop on over to the website to read details about it. The link is

www.milliondollarghost.homestead.com.

Don’t forget to leave comments in the guestbook on this site and the

ghostie site!!! Authors LOVE to hear from their fans!

"Kaminski's talent with children is obvious as one flips through the pages of this inspiring learning tool for tots. Fun art projects that teach and improve on motor and cognitive skills are well-organized with clear instructions and complete lists of items needed for each project. Easy to read pages and patterns in a spiral binding allow the book to lay flat for easy and accurate copies."

Ingrid Taylor, Small Press Review