Anna Richenda

Updated!

A huge THANK YOU! to those who have added reviews and blurbs about The Saint and the Fasting Girl to blogs and review sites.

Here’s what’s up so far:

Brand new! From the Bookworm at Camp Swampy, find it here

New: David Morton’s review on the Inspiratorium.

New: Kay’s Bookshelf review

Blodeuedd’s review

See David Morton’s pre-review at the Inspiratorium

Read Arleigh’s news release of my novel and website on her blog historical-fiction.com

Read Father Dale’s blog entry and review. (While you’re there, check out the good work being done on behalf of Dominican Children from right here in Washington State.)

More to come!

The Saint and the Fasting Girl storms the bookstore!

We’re getting close! The Saint and the Fasting Girl is now available for purchase through iUniverse and on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Powells has the ebook, if you like those. As for Borders, I don’t see it there, yet.

All the sites have “in Stock” or “ships in 24 hours” but that’s not quite true—yet. Might be true if UPS had come a little sooner!! But I’m off for a conference and the books spent 3 days in a warehouse in Illinois so they’re not here yet. (Bummer.)

Still!! I’m excited because it should be at most a week before the pre-flight checks are done and then ‘ships in 24 hours’ will be right.

The book is available in hardcover, ebook, or paperback.

A big thank you to those who have agreed to read and review it! Those copies will go out as soon as I can send them. I hope to have review copies in my hand at the beginning of July.

Gosh…I have butterflies. It’s like that day before the big trip where you wonder, did I remember to turn off the stove? Did I leave the key for the cat-sitter? I’m thinking…did I fix all those commas? All of them? ‘Cause it’s too late to fix them now.

New historical fiction!

The Saint and the Fasting Girl comes out this June. I am unbelievably excited and I can’t wait to hear back from readers as to what they think. I wrote it with the reader in mind—well, myself in mind, I suppose. I like books that take me to new worlds and offer new information and experiences. And especially I like books where the story grips me and won’t let go.

The book will be available soon!

A fasting what?

I know, I know, ever since you looked at the title of the book you’ve been scratching your head and wondering What is a Fasting Girl? lol.

Check out the posting on historyfish about just that:
What are Fasting Girls?

Check it out.

Wading through my office

In the detritus of my office I have come across a number of little notes to myself, notes complied on post-its and 3×5 cards while I was writing The Saint the the Fasting Girl. I saved a few:

Safeguard the child

Dilemma: take a goal — evoke its opposite. Polarize the protagonist.

What does the character desire? If the mouse desires to be eaten, then the cat must want not to eat.

Pro bono pacis = for the sake (good) of peace

Ale, Beer & Brewsters in England: women’s work in a changing world. A book I meant to get. (Not too late!)

Religion provides a context for someone’s life, and a container for their world view. Like a matrix laid over and through one’s life, it simultaneously reflects the self (through the known) and God (through the unknown). It is a pouch of dust blown over the invisible, so to see what can’t be seen. From this matrix, from the invisible beneath the dust, meaning is both gleaned and made. The structure supports awareness, and is a framework for understanding.

Metaphor can be strung along a line: Her voice was fluid sweetness, a honeyed tea with crisp cookies of meringue.

It’s only energy.

All books written in language must eventually dissolve back to letters and then to dust.

And my favorite:
Ultimately, there is no such thing as protagonism. There is only point of view.