I’m about to launch a new book! The Swan Maiden is an original Australian faery tale, inspired by the beautiful black swans in my local park, who I’ve so loved watching as they raise their adorable cygnets each year.

It’s my first post-Mists fiction, and after six epically-long books in that series, it’s a little scary to put out something new, but it was fun to write, and compared to the crazy-long page count Into the Air ended up with, it’s short and sweet – a novella or small novel.

Swan Maiden Book Cover

Here is the blurb:

Once upon a time, a young girl cried all her sadness into the lake of her local city park, and a lonely black swan drank a tear and was transformed…

For Signet, being human is much harder than she imagined. There are machines that are trying to kill her, people who want to replace her, and dizzying new emotions she’d rather not feel. When she finds herself torn between two wildly different worlds, she must discover how much she’s willing to sacrifice, where she really belongs, and who she truly is.

Enter a world where birds shapeshift into wizards, women emerge from sealskins, swans transform into maidens, and love is the most powerful enchantment of all.

The first feedback was wonderful, and I hope you will love it too!

“I devoured this book! (I couldn’t put it down – I almost missed my train stop!) It’s a beautiful Australian faery tale, perfect for the young and the young at heart. Such a wonderful story has been woven. I loved it.”

I started writing the story in late 2018, at a writing retreat in WA, but put it aside to write Into the Air. But once Air was launched late last year, I returned to it, and I loved writing it…

And there may be a few more faery tales to come…

You can order it here…