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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

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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Friday 10 October 2008

I can't resist tests!

It's OK, I've written over a thousand words this morning and I've outlined the next two scenes, so I've followed Lee Battersby's lead and done some tests on Hello Quizzy. Here's the first one:

Your result for The Mythological God Test...

Thoth


Thoth, the Egyptian God of secret wisdom, intellect, geometry and other forms of higher mathematics, was also the God of books and learning, of writing and numbers. And above all, he was the God of Magic. Indeed, he was the first and greatest of all magicians, said to create miracles from nothing by the mere vibrations of his voice alone.


Within his main temple were said to be stored his books of magic which were open for the edification of all, providing those absorbing this magic understood its sacred content. Over the centuries, these books were said to have been carefully translated by various priests of secret orders until finally, the Greeks compiled them as the works of Hermes Trismegistus.


One book most everyone is familiar with which is attributed to the mysteries of the God Thoth is the Tarot, considered to be an unbound book of symbols that may be read in an endless variety of sequences imitating the random nature of existence itself.


The Fifteen Gods


These are the 15 categories of this test. If you score above average in …


…all or none of the four variables: Dagda. …
Erudite: Thoth. …
Sensual: Frey. …
Martial: Mars. …
Saturnine: Mictlantecuhtli. …

Erudite & Sensual: Amun. …
Erudite & Martial: Odin. …
Erudite & Saturnine: Anubis. …
Sensual & Martial: Zeus. …
Sensual & Saturnine: Cernunnos. …
Martial & Saturnine: Loki. …

Erudite, Sensual & Martial: Lug. …
Erudite, Sensual & Saturnine: Coyote. …
Erudite, Martial & Saturnine: Hades. …
Sensual, Martial & Saturnine: Pan.

Take The Mythological God Test at HelloQuizzy

9 comments:

Jo said...

Here I came out as Frey. Including 75% sexual. Told you I should write your sexy bits LOL

Satima Flavell said...

Woo-hoo Jo! Start writing:-) (There's money in erotica, I believe.)

Jo said...

Its funny actually, the friend I mentioned, writes all kinds of self help books, is an agony-aunt, writes specific sexual help stuff and yet with the one novel she wrote, there was hardly any sex in it. Just in passing as it were and not much of that. I was very surprised. I thought it was a delightful novel, but she couldn't get a publisher although she has some 20 or so non fiction out there.

Satima Flavell said...

Yes, it's hard to make that leap from non-fiction to fiction. And, of course, you just have to happen to have the very thing the publisher is looking for on that particular day, so there's a lot of luck involved as well.

Jo said...

I was puzzled, bearing in mind her normal stuff, that there were no steamy sex scenes in her novel. Maybe she should have included some. She was told, by publishers, that they would like to see her next book. Standard phrase I assume.

hrugaar said...

I got the same picture as you, Satima, but ended up as Amun (88% erudite, 79% sensual). King of the gods, go figure! :D

There were some nice pictures accompanying the questions to this test though.

Satima Flavell said...

Publishers don't usually ask to see any more of an author's work, Jo, unless they are quite impressed with what they've already seen. Perhaps they already had something in their list that was very similar to the one your friend wrote. I hope she keeps trying.

Erudite and sensual, Ru? You had better start writing literary erotica:-) That's in between looking after Upper and Lower Egypt, of course!

hrugaar said...

Literary erotica? Or perhaps sensual eruditica. Heh.

Satima Flavell said...

Ah, a Cyrenaic has come amongst us:-)

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