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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.

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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

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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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Sunday 29 July 2007

Shuffling Papers

Two weeks have fled the calendar: two weeks in which I seem to have accomplished very little. I find myself discombobulated (is it possible to be combobulated, do you think?) and strangely unwilling to knuckle down to tasks that need doing; an after-effect, I expect, of having spent five months away. There is a mess of papers on the kitchen table that glowers at me when I walk by, so I avert my gaze. Now and then I feel guilty, so I shuffle the components around a bit and divide them into piles, but they keep telling me that's not what's needed. I refuse to acknowledge that they really do have to have Things done to them, so the papers and I are engaged in a Mexican standoff.

When I arrived home, I found several books waiting to be reviewed, largely from Hachette Livre who have recently set up shop in Australia under the Orbit banner. Two of them found homes with other reviewers, and I have just uploaded one of the others, which I reviewed myself. It is Feast of Souls by Celia Friedman, an excellent tale of magic and despair. Now I'm reading Dr Whom (subtitled "ET shoots and leaves"!) by A.R.R.R. Roberts. You will gather from the title that it is a spoof on all things speculative and many things linguistic:-) I should be able to get the review on line sometime this week.

At the same time, I have also been at least a bit active on the Family History front. I received lots of new information from cousins old and new while I was travelling and there were also several requests for information clogging up my inbox on my return. I think I've dealt with most of those now and am a fair way through entering the new info into my data base. I currently have a collection of 21,877 relations, most of them dead. I keep telling myself "Enough, already!" but then someone will send me a new and intriguing line to investigate and I'm off again. It's awful, loving lots of things. I've never been able to give up any of my favourite activities, with the inevitable result that I've become a jack-of-all-trades. I long to get back to my writing, but it will have to wait until I've finished entering the rest of the Dead Rellies. And, of course, dealing with that ominous paperwork:-(

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hallo Satima,
so you are back in Mount Gambier - after a long trip, healthy and in one piece. But I don't say: back home: I can read in your blogs that your heart is still in Perth. I hope and wish for you to learn to call M.G. also "home" sometime in the future.
That it is difficult for you to get back to routine work I can well understand. I expected the same feeling everytime when I returned to office-work after 3 weeks holiday - and imagine, you have been off for 5 months! But in the office I had to start to minimize the heap of papers on my desktop on the spot - so from my experience: best thing is to start with this awful work - the longer you wait the higher this heap will be, at least that is what it looks like.
I am sure you have heard about the floods that hit England at present. Be glad it did not happen while you visited England.
Here everything is fine and we enjoy summer.
Give my regards to your family-members
Love
Elfriede

Satima Flavell said...

Thanks for your understanding, Elfriede:-) Yes, I hope I will learn to call Mount Gambier home eventually. But for the time being, I have enough other things to keep me busy. You're right: that paperwork has bred offspring during the night. I'm certain of that because it looks heaps bigger this morning!

My English friends and rellies tell me that I saw the best of the weather there in April! Indeed it was unseasonably warm and pleasant then and I had to buy summer clothes. But since then weather has not been good and people report that the floods have been terrible. I hope that doesn't happen where you live. The Rhine in full flood would be terrible to see, but not impossible, I'd imagine.

My son Bruce is off to Iran for five weeks, seconded to the University in Tehran. Scott is back from his annual work stint in America - he only stayed five weeks this year!

Love to everyone there, including the ones with four legs!

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