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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: Lynton, Devon, UK

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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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Saturday 24 October 2009

New web site

First of all, here is the promised pic of my new canine friend, Morgan (as in le Fay!)

With my son Scott's help, I've just launched my new web site. It's still a bit of a Work in Progress, but it has at least the beginnings of all the things I want to include. My very first blog over there follows on from the one I did here in August called The Promiscuous Artist. I was inspired by a post on my friend Fiona Leonard's Year in America blog, in which she poses the question "If you knew you could not fail, what would you do?" Please do check it out!

However, I've decided to leave my main blog here,at least for the time being, because I cannot get WordPress to do some of the things I've got used to doing on Blogger, such as putting pictures in the side column. WordPress, however, has the advantage of giving me extra pages so that I can run a "proper" web site in conjunction with the blog. As with most things in life, some kind of compromise had to be found, so I'll keep on blogging here but will put at least one post a month on the other one. It will always be writing-related, while this blog will continue to carry my meanderings on a variety of topics. I'll always give you a link when I update the new blog: here's the one for the new post. I've carried all my other writing-related posts over there, too.

Next week, new Specusphere. Nose down, tail up until then!

9 comments:

Jo said...

Interesting blog Satima, you sure have done a lot of things in your life. Rather than writing a spec fic novel, you should write a personal novel, I would think it would make a good story. I guess I won't visit your new page often as it is more of a business page, but I wish you every success there.

Astrology? What do you do there?

Satima Flavell said...

I've been into astrology for years and at various times it's provided a fair proportion of my income. Now I only do it by request, usually via email. I do either a full analysis of a natal chart which is useful for self-knowledge and personal growth at any age or a lifepath outline for young adults to help with career planning. Actually it's an interesting report to read in retrospect, too, but it's most useful to people aged about 18-50 who are career planning or needing to switch tracks.

Marilyn Z. Tomlins said...

Satima; I am confused now. Why do you need two blogs? Can you not have a web site with a blog all in one? Both are great, by the way, but which one are we to follow now and leave comments?

Satima Flavell said...

Each blog host has its pros and cons, I guess. Blogger is great (I much prefer it to Live Journal, forex) but it does not have the facility to include information pages. What I particularly like about it is that I can have feeds from all the blogs I follow on any host right here in the margin, which is very handy. Wordpress, OTOH, allows me to have pages - as many as I like! - of static content to provide information.
However, there doesn't seem to be a way to have live feed from other blogs with Wordpress, only a list of blogs.

I don't yet know what the answer is, so I'll keep both blogs going, putting writing posts on Wordpress (probably only once or twice a month) and putting everything else here. But the whole thing is still a WIP, so who knows?:-)

Marilyn Z. Tomlins said...

Oh dearie me! I am quite lost !!

Satima Flavell said...

Did you get lost on the new site, Marilyn? I am having such a lot of fun adding pages, but if my friends are going to be too confused by it I'd better pull back - or make a better navigation plan!

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