Hi all from sunny and hot Canberra, Australia
Seasons greetings to all. I hope you get to enjoy some quiet time, some fun time and experience joy in your celebrations. May the year ahead be filled with hope for a better world.
The Prudential Light is launched! Can you believe it? Two books in a year and I fell over the line for a touchdown. It was hard but I think the story is totally worth it.
While the ebooks books are up everywhere, the print copies will lag a bit as the printers are busy or closing for Christmas. I shall keep you updated on that.
The Prudential Light blub
A book of manners, magic and mayhem
Aunt Prudence Wainwright, famously daunting dragon lady of the Hardcastle family, has set herself to writing her memoirs. But which Prudence will have her story come out?
Will it be the maiden aunt who lived quietly in a small village, bringing up her niece Milly and sewing and embroidering to her heart’s content? Maybe it will be the outrageously-dressed, old busybody whose battle of wills with her niece, Jemima, unfolded in Ruby Heart? Better yet, the doughty old warrior hidden under the lace and brocade, who fought off villains with her hatpins and umbrella in Emerald Fire? Perhaps it will be the family matriarch featured in Amber Rose, prim, dependable, astute at procuring baked goods and deft at baby wrangling, who is at times a tad flirtatious with the older gentry? Or will these memoirs reveal yet another side of Prudence that the rest of the Hardcastles have yet to see?
With the family’s magical gifts running through her veins, there will be plenty to astonish her relations: adventures, abandonment, heartbreak, secret loves, and dangers. But with new babies on the scene, marriage proposals, battles with rogue magicians, and the very past she is recalling bursting back into her life in startling ways, how will she ever find the time to finish writing
My thoughts on The Prudential Light...
We have a side character, Aunt Prudence, who is older, plumper and brusque, starring in the story. Prudence is writing a memoir, mixed in with now actions (story now, not now now!) and her story was interesting. If you recall I spent a month or so in Singapore where I wrote most of this book. And in that respect, Prudence wrote herself. The harder part to write was the now part and tying it into what happened in the past. I had a kick arse editor as my arse (ass) did need kicking because it was a bit messy. Due to my eye issues, writing is not too hard but editing and reading is. If you do get to read it, please leave a rating or review or email me what you thought. I'm desperate to know what people think of it.
As a gift to my newsletter subscribers I have made Awakening free on my Payhip store.
Link here.
This book is set on a Colony World, sort of utopia with a bit of rot at the core. The romance is fairly clean, it's more about what it means to be human.
Awakening blurb
Bring out the cold soldiers who lie in frozen sleep.
Do not wake them nor let their tranquil faces beguile.
They are purveyors of death.
They must burn!
What soldiers? Colony Five has been proudly peaceful since before living memory.
The cryptic new orders make no sense to Deleen Milo... until she sees the burning bodies in the stasis sarcophagi. She tries to uncover the truth behind the mysterious soldiers, only to become adrift in a colony suddenly full of secrets and threats. Who wants the soldiers destroyed and the colony defenceless?
Pursued into hiding, Deleen manages to revive Rik Chesson, a Cold Soldier trying to understand the new world waiting for him after 134 years of cryosleep. Deleen has never trusted easily, and Rik's nanotech-infused posthuman form sets her nerves on edge. But they are the only ones who can rescue the surviving Cold Soldiers and defend the colony against a deadly new threat. They have to work together, and as they begin to truly know one another Deleen realises that however Rik's body may have changed, the man inside might just be one she can love...
I shall be updating my blog in the mean time. www.donnamareehanson.com
Take care all
Regards
Donna/ Dani
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