Authorpreneur Dashboard – Jane Wiseman
Blackbird Rising
Literature & Fiction
Minstrel? Spy? Witch? What is Mirin, really? She's a young girl. She's a boy. She loves her sister. She loves a man. What is she, and more important, who is she? The gods have given her a task, to save a realm, to save a queen. In a brutal world where the young are forced to grow up fast, Mirin's story is about coming of age too soon, about love and betrayal. It's about the heavy costs of standing for a cause but standing for it anyway because it is the right. About finding the lost and finding yourself along the way. Book I of the Harbingers/Stormclouds fantasy series. Buy at https://books2read.com/u/m0KNgV
Book Bubbles from Blackbird Rising
A young minstrel in a dangerous world
Fantasy--all speculative fiction--is an escape from our ordinary world. But I don't think books like mine are pure escape. In an invented world, we fantasy writers can invite you to think about real-world troubles in disguise. I've been struck lately by the #metoo movement, and how normalized the abusive treatment of women and young girls has maybe always been. In my novel, Mirin's master, Wat the spy, has disguised her as a boy. But now time has run out for the young minstrel. She has fallen into the hands of a ruthless man with no compunctions about shaming a young girl in his power. I find her situation unsettlingly real.
