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22.01.2022 I look forward to Swancon (Perth's annual SF convention) every year. It's so good to catch up with friends, go to hear speakers and panel discussions and chat with other lovers of speculative fiction, (especially medieval fantasy, my favourite genre). The guest of honour, Jonathan Strahan, is a good speaker and very approachable, too. Last day today (boo hoo). I've sat on three panels so far and have just one today, so I can spend the time listening to other panels of interest or just sitting chatting in the cafe/bar. Go Swancon!
22.01.2022 Welcome to new 'likers' Eric Box and Frances Ashworth! Just a reminder that the first two books in The Talismans Trilogy, 'The Dagger of Dresnia' and 'The Cloak of Challiver' are available on Amazon in e-book format. If sales continue to look promising, I shall have a short print run done for each book. I'm still struggling a bit with Book Three, 'The Seer of Syland', but I do hope to finish it within the next few months.
21.01.2022 The Talismans 6 mins I've actually started to write book three of The Talismans: The Seer of Syland! The story starts twenty years after the end of book two,The Cloak of Challiver. The first character to nudge my elbow was a baby dragon, who in the prologue finds himself being kidnapped by a little human. I hope these two youngsters hit it off and learn to love each other as they are both shaping up to be strong-willed, and both will be important to the story.... Like Comment Share ;
19.01.2022 Many happy returns to Randi Ryder, Chantal Vanderhaeghen, Elizabeth Lim, Ricken Patel, Mu Okayama and Jane Robinson.
15.01.2022 I've actually started to write book three of The Talismans: The Seer of Syland! The story starts twenty years after the end of book two,The Cloak of Challiver. The first character to nudge my elbow was a baby dragon, who in the prologue finds himself being kidnapped by a little human. I hope these two youngsters hit it off and learn to love each other as they are both shaping up to be strong-willed, and both will be important to the story.
12.01.2022 I've taken the plunge and started putting The Cloak of Challiver up on my blog - https://satimaflavell.blogspot.com/
10.01.2022 We are not the only Talismans on Facebook! When I typed the name I was shown a page written in Italian, apparently about a pop group of the same name. My Italian is not good, but I gathered they were saying how well they were doing!
10.01.2022 A big 'Hi' to Jagonia Bentoza Cerilo, Zuvan Botyai Martinov, Soleil Atenta, Jenna HL Cassidy and Natiy Natiy. Guys, I am sure some of those names are jokes, but that's OK. Just carry on reading! (Writers Need Readers...)
06.01.2022 Sighs of relief and a bit of Tigger-like bouncing! The first two books of The Talismans - The Dagger of Dresnia and The Cloak of Challiver - are back up on Amazon as ebooks. Many thanks to Valerie Goodreid for making the books real again! Nice new covers, too, thanks to Lisa Wolstenholme and Marieke Ormsby.
04.01.2022 Friends, I have recently allowed Facebook to sell me some advertising. It has resulted in many new 'likes' for this page. If you are one of those newcomers, please introduce yourselves and tell us a bit about your own reading and/or writing journeys! I suspect that many of you, like me, were almost born with a book in their hands. I taught myself to read when I was three by looking over the shoulder of whoever was reading my bedtime story! By the time I was eight I had read a...lmost all of Enid Blyton's oeuvre and was working my way through Rudyard Kipling as well. But I got into historical fantasy via a serialisation (in a womens mag) of Mary Stewart's 'The Crystal Cave' when I was fourteen. A few years later, I married a man who loved SF, especially the humorous ones and the old timers - John Wyndham, Piers Anthony and of course, Isaac Asimov. Apart from biographies and a few straight historicals, their combined work was enough to keep me reading for a couple of years - which was, incidentally, about the entire time the marriage lasted! My second husband also loved SF. Pity you can't make marriages work on the strength of the couple's literary tastes! How did you get into the wonderful world of speculative fiction - especially if you favour historical fantasy? Let us know in a comment. And if you are a writer, don't be shy - tell us a bit about your work!
04.01.2022 Hi dear friends! Here I am on the last day of the year, having accomplished very little, writing-wise, since the same time last year. I have written most of the first chapter of book three, 'The Seer of Syland', but I am finding it hard to immerse myself in writing these days. Books one and two of The Talismans have not sold well, which is very saddening for a writer. I have a new publisher, Wild Weeds Press, who look very promising, but I haven't been with them long enough t...o have a statement of sales. I hope the other writers among you have had a more satisfying year than I have! I'll do my best to get book three finished and published this year. There is nothing more frustrating for a reader than to find a favourite series is not going to be finished. Reading-wise, I like to have one fiction work and one non-fiction on the go at the same time. I have a To-Be-Read pile that if it were indeed one tall pile, would probably amount to twice my height and maybe more! Right now I am reading 'Give Me Excess of It', a memoir by a schoolfellow of mine, musician Richard Gill. Sadly, Richard passed away shortly after the book was published, and he is sorely missed by the musical fraternity as well as his many friends. On the fiction front, I am reading 'The Rune of Life', by Dave Dunn. Dave and I were crit buddies for a while, over a decade ago now. Tempus fugit I would be very happy to see some responses to this post. How are you going with your own writing? Or if you don't write, what books have you read in the past year?
