Dear Reader…
Thanks for your interest in my book. I know there are
thousands of books to read and I’m grateful you chose mine. Writing has become
a passion for me, something I’ve not experienced in my life before. I’m a
late-bloomer. I didn’t start writing in earnest until a few years ago. Up to
that point, I was focused on work and family. I retired from work and my
husband passed away so writing is my life.
Several years ago, Peter Jackson produced a series of films
based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the
Rings. I fell in love with it and out of it grew a character. Her full name
is Lady Alexin Dumwalt but she likes to be called Alex. She brought a lot of
baggage with her in the way of stories. When I put them down on paper, I had
enough material for seven books, two series. The first series called, The Seaward Isle Saga, has three books—The Black Elf of Seaward Isle, Tangled
Omens, and Blood Mission. If you
look on Amazon, you’ll also find a short story, The Island Game. That was the result of my editor asking me for a
history of Seaward Isle written in first person. Anyway, this series covers
Alex’s younger years as she grows up on Seaward Isle, an island surrounded by
storms created by Zeus and held to the rest of the Elf World (Eledon) with the
use of wormholes. Yes, a little Greek mythology and science fiction come into
play.
My second series, The
Chronicles of Eledon, has four books—Spell
Breaker, The Blue Witch, Gossamer, and
Noble Magic. Alex, now a teenager, moves in with her Elf grandmother to
learn about her Elf roots and her ability to perform magic. Not only must she
stop the storms around Seaward Isle but she must also find a way to keep it
from falling and crashing into the mortal world (Earth).
With the new series, The
Admiralty Archives, Alex encounters a new problem. Over 700 sailors and 5
large warships have ended up in Eledon, somehow and she must get them back to
Earth. How? Good question and she needs all of her experiences in the first two
series to help her. I spent a lot of hours researching this problem including a
10-day trip to the U.K.
And you thought I just made it up. Read on and enjoy the journey.
Sincerely,
Joni Parker
Author
About the Author
Joni was born in Chicago,
moved to Japan,
and returned to live in Phoenix, Arizona.
After joining the Navy, she lived in Lakehurst,
New Jersey where she met her husband, a
career sailor. They moved to Jacksonville, Florida,
from there to Pensacola, Florida
where Joni attended the university. Upon graduation, she returned to the Navy
and was stationed in Naples, Italy.
From there, the Navy sent her to live in a number of U.S.
cities and even spent a year with the U.S. Army at their Command and General
Staff College obtaining a Master of Military Arts and Sciences. Upon her
retirement, she traveled the country in an RV with her husband until he passed
away. She returned to the workforce living in Dallas
until she discovered a passion for writing fantasy novels. She retired for a
second time and now lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Website Address: http://www.joni-parker.com
Twitter Address: @ParkerJoni
Facebook Address: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorJoniParker
About the Book:
A NATO training
exercise goes terribly wrong when five warships from different countries are
mysteriously transported to Eledon, the Realm of the Elves. The warrior Lady
Alexin is charged to escort the troops back home to London in the year 2031 with the aid of the
Wizard Ecstasy and a magic shrinking potion. Yet, when the authorities question
her story, Alex is detained and imprisoned under suspicion of terrorism. Caught
in a web of politics, betrayal and bungling bureaucracy, the confusing world of
the future will push her magical gifts to their limit, and her own future will
hang in the balance, caught between “justice” and the place she calls home.
Thanks for hosting my book! I've never been asked to write a letter like this and at first, I had no idea what to say. It was a challenge.
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