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Perth, Western Australia, Australia
I am based in Perth, Western Australia. You might enjoy my books - The Dagger of Dresnia, the first book of the Talismans Trilogy, is available at all good online book shops as is Book two, The Cloak of Challiver. Book three, The Seer of Syland, is in preparation. I trained in piano and singing at the NSW Conservatorium of Music. I also trained in dance (Scully-Borovansky, WAAPA) and drama (NIDA). Since 1987 I have been writing reviews of performances in all genres for a variety of publications, including Music Maker, ArtsWest, Dance Australia, The Australian and others. Now semi-retired, I still write occasionally for the ArtsHub website.

My books

The first two books of my trilogy, The Talismans, (The Dagger of Dresnia, and book two, The Cloak of Challiver) are available in e-book format from Smashwords, Amazon and other online sellers. Book three of the trilogy, The Seer of Syland, is in preparation.I also have a short story, 'La Belle Dame', in print - see Mythic Resonance below - as well as well as a few poems in various places. The best way to contact me is via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/satimaflavell

Buy The Talismans

The first two books of The Talismans trilogy were published by Satalyte Publications, which, sadly, has gone out of business. However, The Dagger of Dresnia and The Cloak of Challiver are available as ebooks on the usual book-selling websites, and book three, The Seer of Syland, is in preparation. The easiest way to contact me is via Facebook.

The Dagger of Dresnia

The Dagger of Dresnia

The Cloak of Challiver, Book two of The Talismans

The Cloak of Challiver, Book two of The Talismans
Available as an e-book on Amazon and other online booksellers.

Mythic Resonance

Mythic Resonance

Mythic Resonance is an excellent anthology that includes my short story 'La Belle Dame', together with great stories from Alan Baxter, Donna Maree Hanson, Sue Burstynski, Nike Sulway and nine more fantastic authors! Just $US3.99 from Amazon. Got a Kindle? Check out Mythic Resonance.

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Places I've lived: Braemar, Scotland

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Places I've lived: Barre, MA, USA

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Monday 22 January 2007

Personality Tests

Over at Live Journal, there's a bit of a craze for the funstuff to be found at http://www.blogthings.com/ I've just wasted half an hour there doing personality tests:-)

I'm afraid I am a personality test junkie - have been ever since I was eleven. Using a Myers-Briggs type of test I did my undergraduate dissertation on Personality Type and Religious Preference (religion was my major). It was fascinating! I studied groups of Christians (mainly Anglicans) Tibetan Buddhists, Pagans and serious Iyengar Yoga practitioners.

Now, you don't expect to be able to draw conclusions from undergraduate research, but the results of my study were amazing. The Christians came out almost diametrically opposite those who favoured what for want of a better expression we might call "alternative" religions. The average Christian subject was ESFJ while all the other three groups turned up averages of INFP. The huge divide was on the P/J scale. The Christians were predominantly J: the Alternatives almost universally P. The answers to the questionnaire were very telling - Christians like Christianity because it answered all their questions. The Alternatives liked their chosen paths because they left the gate open for choice in beliefs and practices. Typical Sensate / Judging as opposed to Intuitive / Perceiving answers.

Interestingly, almost all writers are NFs of one kind or another, despite the fact that all the Intuitive Feeling Types (ENFJ, ENFP, INFJ, INFP) added together make up only about 12.5% of the general population. I'm INFJ and here's the result of the quick quiz I did over at http://www.blogthings.com/ While hardly a full Myers-Briggs, it does seem surprisingly accurate:
Your Personality Cluster is Introverted Intuition
You are:
Multilayered and complex. Inspired and driven to achieve your goals. A visionary with a complete life plan. Intuitive enough to understand difficult problems, ideas, and people.

Go and give it a try. But be sure you've got at least half an hour to spare as it will suck you into doing test after test after test - if you're a PT tragic like me!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

fyi:
www.INFJ.com

Helen V. said...

Maybe after Clarion, Satima. This week's story finished (or perhaps I should say completed. Next week's about to be started.

Satima Flavell said...

That's a super site of Vicki's! I shall dip into it again and again, I'm sure. http://www.infj.com/

Anonymous said...

Actually, Satima, they called me Introvert Thinking and I don't think that's wrong (especially seeing the boy/girl thing ;-) )

Satima Flavell said...

Yeah, I'd've picked you for an INTJ, Patty. Not that I'm any bloody expert:-)

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