Heather Lea

Six years ago, just after turning thirty, I started an arts and culture publication in Revelstoke, B.C. called Reved Quarterly. I loved writing and this new venture would, hopefully, ensure a job, which could be hard to come by in a small town. Plus calling myself a ‘publisher’ felt so romantic and sexy.

But many nights in the beginning I sat in my home office, freezing and with tears of frustration after trying to teach myself various publishing software programs. I’d run a hand under my damp nose, lift the blanket higher on my knees, cuddle my hot cocoa and wonder if this vocation was really all that sexy.

Six years later, I’ve worked out a lot of kinks. I got a laptop so I could work by my woodstove, became proficient in Adobe software and amazingly, still feel that wonderful energy words and design give me.

In January 2011, I moved to Vancouver for a Multimedia Intensive course at UBC, which I’d hoped would give me the tools to take my business further into the world of social media and enable me to build my own website.

It did that and more. I still run Reved Quarterly and have started a new business called Reved Media and Design working as a freelance writer, web and graphic designer. I live for mixing my skills in writing with design to communicate a message, whether it be through advertising, writing, photos or graphic images (not to be confused with ‘graphic’ images). Visualize! Thoughts become things.