Helen Hitchens (pen name Alex Spear)

I love this trend I've seen going around some of my favorite authors & just had to jump on it!
I think the highlight of the year was me getting the chance to attend #bouchercon2025

Or pins!

Out of the items for sale in my booth at Disco on Decatur, which would you like to see more of? More designs of my drawings on greetings cards, stickers, mugs, bags, books, prints or originals?

Alex Spear's Skin Game - my new murder mystery novel available now!

I would love to let folks know about my drawings inspired by the beautiful bayous of New Orleans, please support small artists as you think about presents for your loved ones! I just finished this one and it is on the front of a spiral bound notebook on my Redbubble! #GiftIdeas

I have made an ideal stocking stuffer for witchy girls
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"Your Coffee Is In The Microwave" Sticker for Sale by hogelstick I drew this in one of the beautiful cemeteries in New Orleans. If you work from home and leave your coffee in the microwave at least once a day like me, you need this in your life! • Millions of uniqu...

Also available on a mug, magnet, mouse mat, spiral notebook & other goodies so you can have this reminder displayed wherever you look!

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#workingfromhome
#funny
#coffeedrinker
#giftideas
#giftideaforhim
#neworleans
#graveyard
#creepy
#goth
#cemetery
#halloween

"Your Coffee Is In The Microwave" Sticker for Sale by hogelstick I drew this in one of the beautiful cemeteries in New Orleans. If you work from home and leave your coffee in the microwave at least once a day like me, you need this in your life! • Millions of uniqu...

If you work from home and leave your coffee in the microwave at least once a day like me, you need this in your life!

I drew this in one of the beautiful cemeteries in New Orleans. Now it is a brand new sticker in my Redbubble shop.

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I'm starting to make art for Halloween
I have a Redbubble, do have a look and let me know what you think!
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A sweet young couple from Austin Texas were kind enough to buy my original framed drawing from my booth at Disco Warehouse on Decatur, I'm over the moon and so grateful 🙏

Just finished these two #drawings with black and gold #IndianInk ready to frame and take to my booth at @discodecatur tomorrow. Life really is magical sometimes 🧚‍♂️ ✨️
#passion
#grateful
#love
#DreamComeTrue
#ArtCollector

Yes or music

1211 Decatur St, New Orleans

Thanks to the amazing @discodecatur I now have pegboard on my booth & can display a lot more stock

If you like to check out the look & feel of art before you buy, come & see & touch so you can imagine how you will experience my work and live with it in your home

Lots more in my Redbubble shop too!

The first of my mugs arrived from Redbubble and it is now proudly displayed on my stall at Disco on Decatur. $17 featuring one of my drawings of New Orleans

You can see my art at the wonderful Disco on Decatur, New Orleans! www.creativehrinternational.com/shop

Fear of Flying Amazon.com: Fear of Flying: 9798302080455: Spear, Alex: Books

...a fish out of water, in this novel

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...son. I had a lot of fun describing what it is like to live in another country.

I always knew I would love America and my only regret is that it took me so long to get here. Being an 'ex-pat' from London means that so many things are different. I tried to show some of this experience of being...

...novels based on the places and people I was discovering on my journey.

One of them I have just self-published on Amazon and it would mean the world to me if folks would buy it. Let me know what you think!

It is a 'whodunnit' murder mystery set in New Orleans, with Wayne and his wife and young..

...than they give themselves credit for.)

I also stumbled upon my second home in the US.

I have been travelling around on the trip of a lifetime since I first stepped foot in America right after the pandemic. I made notes about this amazing country and drafted a couple of manuscripts for new...

...should have considered art school.

So I embarked on a Masters in Fine Arts even though I was already 40 years old. The most astonishing side quests appeared from this as if by magic. I discovered a flair for business to business marketing (every artist and novelist is much better at this...

...when I could spare the time and energy.

Discussions with my brave mother as she stood up to cancer treatment and palliative care for 2 years, made me realise that all of us have a short time on earth.

It was her actually who raised the fact that I had always been creative and perhaps...

Anyone who has ever considered mid-life retraining, my latest novel is for you.

Following the pandemic and the sad passing of my mother, I really re-evaluated. I had a successful career in HR based on London and Surrey. But the visual art and novel writing I always enjoyed were very much hobbies...

Fear of Flying A spooky supernatural murder mystery for fans of New Orleans! Wayne has a hunch that his father’s death was no accident. Dealing with the grief of losing his father, while trying to make a new life ...

My 'whodunnit' murder mystery set in New Orleans, with Wayne and his wife and young son. I had a lot of fun describing what it is like to live in another country.

I always knew I would love America and my only regret is that it took me so long to get here.

www.amazon.com/Fear-Flying-...

Fear of Flying A spooky supernatural murder mystery for fans of New Orleans! Wayne has a hunch that his father’s death was no accident. Dealing with the grief of losing his father, while trying to make a new life ...

One of my new novels based on the places and people I was discovering on my journey, I have just self-published on Amazon and it would mean the world to me if folks would buy it. Let me know what you think!

www.amazon.com/Fear-Flying-...

Fear of Flying A spooky supernatural murder mystery for fans of New Orleans! Wayne has a hunch that his father’s death was no accident. Dealing with the grief of losing his father, while trying to make a new life ...

Anyone who has ever met me in New Orleans, or anywhere in the US for that matter, this novel is for you!

I have been travelling around on the trip of a lifetime since I first stepped foot in America right after the pandemic. I made notes about this amazing country & drafted a couple of manuscripts

Fear of Flying A spooky supernatural murder mystery for fans of New Orleans! Wayne has a hunch that his father’s death was no accident. Dealing with the grief of losing his father, while trying to make a new life ...

www.amazon.com/Fear-Flying-...

Having a ball back in New Orleans!

BREXIT BLEW A HOLE IN PUBLIC FINANCES.

Starmer’s plan is to get pensioners, poor families and the disabled to fill it.

“The government can only significantly offset Brexit losses, or eliminate them, through reintegration with the European economy.”

WE NEED TO REJOIN!!