The Fenix Series is a new trilogy of books I am writing which will hopefully soon be available at your favorite book stores. Forest to Fenix is the first in a series of family saga novels with strong romantic elements. The second book in the Fenix Series, Fenix from the Ashes, picks up where the first leaves off, satiating the reader’s thirst for Kallie’s happily-ever-after; and a third, titled Fenix Rising, is a youthful adventure that explores the sexy world of art and fashion and chronicles young Nevon’s transformation from a passion-seeking player to a hopeless romantic.
The books are called the Fenix Series because Kallie’s last name (after she marries) is Fenix, an alternative Greek spelling for phoenix, a mythical bird with a tail of gold and red that represents fire and divinity. Near the end of its long life, the phoenix builds a nest of cinnamon twigs and sets aflame both the nest and itself. They burn together ferociously until nothing is left but ash, from which a new phoenix arises, reborn. Myth has it that the bird regenerates when hurt or deeply wounded, giving it near immortality. It is also believed to be able to heal a person with a tear from its eyes and protect them from death. Each book in the Fenix series has relevance to this myth, as its characters continually transform and survive and begin life anew.
I'll add information about FOREST TO FENIX on this blog on a regular basis - plus just some of my thoughts as an author. Stay tuned...and welcome!
The Shark Is Closed for Queries
3 weeks ago
"I pray for the hands of a writer." They are words I read so many years ago, written by Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline. When I read it, something changed in me...something that was as much as a calling as it was a confirmation. I must write. I knew then that the gift I had been given was exactly that: the hands of a writer. It's a gift no better than any other - no more significant...but it's mine and I am grateful.
ReplyDeleteFoster started his book, as so many authors do, with acknowledgments. In that section he wrote: "I am struck profoundly by the weakness of words...and yet I am struck even more profoundly by the fact that God can take something so inadequate, so imperfect, so foolish as words on paper and use them to transform lives."
Indeed. Words do transform lives. They can harm and they can heal. They can cause one to feel deeply and they can grant a much-needed escape from the world. Words can sting, and words can soothe. They are, in fact, only words...but when they are strung together into meaningful messages by the hands of a writer, they are enough to change the world...