Last Light of the Goddess

It is with great pride and not a bit of apprehension (because what mother isn’t nervous when she sends her baby out into the world for the first time), that I announce the following:

Last Light Of The Goddess is now officially available for purchase in hardcover, paperback and e-book through LuLu.com publishing. Please click the image to the left for purchasing options and find pricing details below.

Hardcover – $25.00
E-Book – TBA
Pocketbook – $18.00
Trade paperback – $15.00

I know the pocketbook is expensive, or seems so, but keep in mind it’s 400 pages long!

All of you by now know that this is a rather big deal. I’ve been working on Last Light for nearly a decade now, though it doesn’t feel like that long. My deepest heartfelt thanks go out to the following people (because no one can tackle a project like this alone).

First and foremost, my parents – for putting up with what I know at points they thought was a crazy endeavor (“what, I thought you were finished that already!?”), but never once turning away and never once failing in their support of my determination.

My faithful editor Torin, who has spent countless hours sitting with me over coffee arguing about whether or not a character is 10 years old or 16, who put up with my temper tantrums (“NO! I can’t cut that scene, it took too damn long to write!” “You have to.” “NO!!!”), who received far too many late night [early morning?] emails from me begging him for the next batch of changes, and without whom Last Light would still be a jumble of run on sentences, clashing ages and disjointed paragraphs. I threatened him with co-author credit once and he refused, but he knows I couldn’t have done it without him.

My Sisters and companions at arms, Silver and Saerwan, who have put up with seeing draft after draft and cover after cover and who are both in possession of author’s galley copies of draft 7 (in fact, I think Silver has drafts 1 -8). And in addition to that, since we’re talking Family, even though he’ll look at me like I’m crazy and ask what on earth he’s done to contribute, thanks also to my ship-board big brother, Amras, if only because he and his wife were the ones who were there to lend me a shoulder to cry on that horrific day when my flashdrive contracted a virus and I lost my entire rewrite to the reformat.

My amazing cover artist Tytania Faery who fought through personal illness and heaven only knows what else to provide me with the closest image to what I saw in my head, despite the fact that I gave her very little to work with, and who has been nothing but patient with me as I struggle through the all too common condition of not being able to follow through with my end of things as quickly as I should have. If you have a chance, please check out her work at www.childofthelightdesigns.net , trust me, you’re in for a treat.

As far as research goes (there were times I thought my research materials were going to spontaneously combust just from being in contact with each other!): Prof. Heather Orr, for her extensive help in Mesoamerican ritual tattooing which was the basis for Ravanna’s marking ceremony and Prof Erin Campbell, for her ongoing support and coaching in the ways of early pagan history.

Since every project like this needs a soundtrack – thank you too, to the music of Emerald Rose and to my dear friend Simeon Wood (more specifically, his rendition of Lord Of the Dance which got played on repeat far too many times when I was editing the Ritual scenes).

And last but certainly not least – to my seven “unicorns”, you all know who you are (for the most part), but I don’t know if you realize just how much I couldn’t have done this without your support, even if you didn’t know you were giving it. Thank you for taking up residence in my garden.

Brightest of blessings

Shaughnessy