The annual Mid-Valley Willamette Writers Author Celebration happens next week when several members are selected to read from their published works. I’m excited to be one of the readers again. At this year’s event I’ll be reading from my new historical novel, The Shifting Winds. Pulling up some pleasant memories, here’s the group that read …
Janet Fisher ♦ May 15, 2016 ♦ 2 Comments
The Axe & Fiddle, a pub in historic downtown Cottage Grove, offers a change of pace this coming Tuesday night, May 17, when the entertainment turns to words. Poetry Night happens just once a month at this restaurant and public house known for its live music and craft brews, full bar, and locally sourced food, …
Janet Fisher ♦ May 4, 2016 ♦ 2 Comments
I spoke at the Roseburg Rotary Club meeting last night. They invited me to talk about my new book The Shifting Winds, and when I began putting together my speech for this I struggled a bit. What could I say in 20 minutes to give the essence of this full-length novel and still entertain an …
The Shifting Winds was a Finalist for PNWA’s Nancy Pearl Book Award
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The “Going There” blog series describes my book research trip to Europe. The Table of Contents below shows locations presented in the posts. You can click on each entry to navigate the series.
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Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world.
--Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
And the more we dare to try out new paths, like all explorers of new territory, the more we open up further paths that make it possible for us to experience life in ways we never thought possible.
--Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade, quoted from Sacred Pleasure
