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Brand Story
Heart & Soul Beware is a reflective lifestyle brand rooted in truth, creativity, and healing. Through books, collections, and community, it invites the world to pause, feel, and reimagine.
Brand Quote
“This began as a journal entry, a prayer, a refusal to continue the silence. Now it’s a collection — for anyone who’s ever felt invisible but refused to disappear.”
”Every life has a story. Every heart has a story. Each story matters.”
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
B.M. Barnes is an author, founder, and executive-minded creative whose work bridges leadership, storytelling, and emotional resilience. With a background spanning federal, corporate, and nonprofit environments, she brings a strategic lens to every project she builds. As the creator of the Heart & Soul Beware ecosystem—a multi-channel brand encompassing books, collections, and community spaces—Barnes unites narrative craft with organizational insight, inviting audiences to examine truth, identity, and the courage to evolve.
Her debut, Beware: Hidden Truths, introduced her reflective, vignette-driven style, while her upcoming fantasy novel, Diamond Heart, Frozen Souls, expands her storytelling into mythic worldbuilding and generational legacy. Beyond her creative work, Ms. Barnes writes “Leadership Moments,” a developing body of thought that examines humility, accountability, and the internal shifts required for personal and professional growth.
Through her writing, products, and community initiatives, she champions a simple but profound message: every life holds a story, and every story has the power to lead.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (Poetic Bio)
B.M. Barnes writes from the quiet spaces where memory, resilience, and truth converge. Her work—rooted in lived experience and carried forward through imagination—honors the courage it takes to see oneself fully. She is the creator of Heart & Soul Beware, a storytelling ecosystem where books, art, and ritual objects invite readers to pause, listen inward, and reconnect with what endures.
Her writing moves between forms: lyrical vignettes, ancestral echoes, mythic fantasy, and reflective passages that speak to the hidden places within us. In Diamond Heart, Frozen Souls, she explores fractured kingdoms and generational legacy; in Beware: Hidden Truths, she reveals the intimate truths that shape how we survive and rise again.
Ms. Barnes builds in layers—crafting stories, collections, and community spaces that carry the same heartbeat of intention. Through every piece, she reminds us that healing is a journey of returning: to ourselves, to our histories, and to the stories that call us forward.
FEATURED RELEASE: Diamond Heart, Frozen Souls
Diamond Heart, Frozen Souls is an epic fantasy rooted in legacy, power, and the emotional cost of becoming who you were never prepared to be. When Cryon—the Glacial Tyrant—returns to reclaim a kingdom shaped by secrets and ancestral magic, a royal family must confront the truths buried within their own bloodline. At the center are the daughters, each holding a different truth about power, loyalty, and destiny.
Elevator Pitches:
15-Second: An epic fantasy about fractured kingdoms, ancestral power, and the courage required to face what has been frozen in silence.
30-Second: A mythic story where legacy, leadership, and memory collide as a royal family confronts Cryon, the Glacial Tyrant, and the generational wounds that bind them.
1-Minute: A sweeping tale blending worldbuilding, emotional depth, and generational truth. As alliances break and ancestral magic awakens, Diamond Heart, Frozen Souls explores what power costs—what loyalty costs even more—and the truths daughters inherit long before they are ready.
BOOKS BY B. M. BARNES
Beware: Hidden Truths (2025)
A reflective collection of vignettes, poems, and narrative snapshots exploring courage, healing, and the truths we carry in silence.
Diamond Heart, Frozen Souls (2026)
An epic fantasy of fractured kingdoms, mythic power, and generational legacy. A story of loyalty, identity, and the shadow of Cryon—the Glacial Tyrant.
Where the Baobab Whispers (2026/2027)
A reimagining of African myths and ancestral stories, blending folklore, memory, and the resilience of Black women across generations.
LEADERSHIP MOMENTS
Leadership Moments is a developing body of writing that examines humility, accountability, and the internal shifts required to lead with integrity. Through personal insight and narrative reflection, Barnes challenges traditional notions of leadership—highlighting the emotional intelligence, truth-telling, and courage needed to guide others.
Her approach blends organizational experience with the soulfulness found in her creative work, offering a leadership voice that is both strategic and deeply human.
BRAND & COLLECTIONS
The Heart & Soul Beware Collection transforms story into tangible ritual. From journals and apparel to mugs, blankets, and thematic editions, each item carries a narrative memory—symbolic of clarity, shadow, awakening, or light.
These pieces are designed to help readers pause, reflect, ground themselves, and engage with the emotional themes found throughout Barnes’s writing. The collections extend the world of her books, turning literature into lived experience.
COMMUNITY: THE CIRCLE
The Circle is the community branch of Heart & Soul Beware—a space created to honor resilience, identity, and shared truth. Through monthly spotlights, reflection prompts, and curated resources, The Circle uplifts voices and stories that deserve to be seen.
Built on connection and authenticity, it invites members to honor where they have been, who they are becoming, and the stories that carry them forward.
INTERVIEW TOPICS & TALKING POINTS
Below are approved topics and guided talking points for interviews, articles, podcast appearances, features, and media inquiries. These points reflect the core themes of B.M. Barnes’s work and the Heart & Soul Beware ecosystem.
1. The Origin of Heart & Soul Beware
Core Talking Point:
Heart & Soul Beware was born from lived experience—years of carrying truth quietly and learning how resilience is shaped, not inherited.
Supporting Notes:
Began as reflective writing meant for survival and self-clarity
Grew into a multi-channel brand integrating books, products, and community
Built to honor truth, identity, and emotional courage
Name signals both challenge and invitation: “Every life has a story.”
2. Creative Process & Writing Philosophy
Core Talking Point:
Barnes writes from the quiet places where memory and imagination converge, blending emotional truth with mythic storytelling.
Supporting Notes:
Moves fluidly between vignettes, poetry, reflection, and fantasy
Themes grounded in resilience, identity, and the courage to face oneself
Sees writing as a form of listening—deep, intentional, and inward
Focus on what people carry, what shapes them, and what they must release
3. Leadership Moments
Core Talking Point:
Leadership, for Barnes, is not about rank—it is about responsibility, humility, and the internal work required to guide others with integrity.
Supporting Notes:
Derived from years of observing leadership across sectors
Addresses ego, silence, emotional intelligence, and accountability
Blends narrative clarity with organizational insight
Challenges performative or surface-level approaches to leadership
4. Diamond Heart, Frozen Souls
Core Talking Point:
This epic fantasy explores legacy, generational truth, and the emotional cost of becoming who one was never prepared to be.
Supporting Notes:
Centers a royal family confronting generational wounds and ancestral magic
Themes reflect leadership, loyalty, and inherited burdens
Focus on daughters navigating destiny, truth, and personal power
Not escapism—fantasy as emotional and generational revelation
5. Storytelling as Ecosystem
Core Talking Point:
Barnes creates stories that extend beyond the page—into products, rituals, community spaces, and reflective practices.
Supporting Notes:
Journals, collections, and home items are extensions of emotional themes
Products designed with intention: grounding, clarity, awakening, reflection
The ecosystem encourages readers to engage with story as a daily practice
Literature becomes tactile, personal, and lived
6. The Circle: Community & Visibility
Core Talking Point:
The Circle was created to honor stories, uplift overlooked voices, and foster community grounded in truth and resilience.
Supporting Notes:
Monthly spotlights highlight aligned creators and leaders
Offers reflective prompts and themes for personal growth
Functions as a gathering space centered on authenticity
Reinforces the brand’s belief that every story deserves to be seen
7. Why Her Work Matters Now
Core Talking Point:
At a time marked by uncertainty and fragmentation, people seek grounding, honesty, and stories that reflect real emotional truths.
Supporting Notes:
Leadership challenges, burnout, and identity shifts are widespread
Readers want stories that honor complexity—both in life and fiction
Emotional truth, not perfection, is what resonates
Her work meets people where they are: in becoming, healing, and rising
PITCHABLE ANGLES (2026)
These pitch angles are crafted to support media outreach for Diamond Heart, Frozen Souls, the Heart & Soul Beware brand, and B.M. Barnes’s leadership and creative work. Each angle functions as a ready-to-use headline or feature direction for press, reviewers, cultural writers, leadership platforms, and literary outlets.
LITERARY & STORYTELLING ANGLES
1. “The Rise of Emotional Fantasy: How One Author Turns Grief, Legacy, and Power Into Mythic Worlds.”
A culturally relevant exploration of fantasy shaped by emotional truth rather than pure escapism.
2. “Black Women in Fantasy Are Rewriting the Genre. Diamond Heart, Frozen Souls Is Part of That Shift.”
Places Barnes within a growing movement of Black fantasy authors reshaping narrative space.
3. “What Fantasy Teaches Us About Family, Loyalty, and the Secrets We Inherit.”
A thematic deep dive ideal for literary features and book-focused publications.
4. “The World of Diamond Heart, Frozen Souls: A New Mythos Rooted in Memory, Power, and Ancestral Echoes.”
A worldbuilding-focused angle for fantasy reviewers and speculative fiction fans.
AUTHOR & CREATOR ANGLES
5. “How B.M. Barnes Built a Storytelling Ecosystem Where Books Become Ritual, Reflection, and Community.”
A feature angle exploring the Heart & Soul Beware brand architecture.
6. “From Hidden Truths to Frozen Souls: The Creative Evolution of a Writer Blending Reality and Myth.”
A compelling author-profile narrative for interviews or magazine spotlights.
7. “The Stories We Carry: Transforming Lived Experience Into Fiction That Speaks to the Heart.”
A strong human-interest angle for cultural and personal development platforms.
LEADERSHIP & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT ANGLES
8. “What Fantasy Can Teach Us About Leadership: Power, Consequence, and the Emotional Cost of Becoming.”
A crossover angle for business, leadership, and executive audiences.
9. “The Leader’s Shadow: Why Accountability Is Missing From Modern Leadership—and How Storytelling Can Change That.”
A powerful commentary angle for leadership columns, podcasts, and panels.
10. “Resilience Is Not the Happy Ending—It’s the Work: A Writer’s Perspective on Healing and Transformation.”
Ideal for wellness, empowerment, and personal development outlets.
BRAND & COMMUNITY ANGLES
11. “The Brand That Blends Books, Reflection, and Ritual: How Heart & Soul Beware Turns Story Into Daily Practice.”
A lifestyle and brand-culture angle perfect for creative entrepreneurship coverage.
12. “Beyond the Page: How Story-Inspired Collections Create Community, Meaning, and Modern Ritual.”
A unique angle highlighting the bridge between literature and product design.
DOWNLOADABLE ASSETS
High-resolution author headshots
Book covers (current and upcoming)
Brand logos (Awakening, Light, Shadow, Clarity)
Select product/collection images
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