Sunday, February 7, 2016
The Goddess in Blue Gumboots
A feminist fantasy novel set in the bush of Southwest Western Australia where a group of women neighbours, manipulated by a foul-mouth abused twelve-year-old, create a system of rites and rituals for women which grows so quickly the world takes notice, despite the founding members, most of whom don't really know what it is all about. This story is sad, funny, and challenging.
In the glorious southwest bush region of Western Australia women neighbours take the world by storm.
Meet Ana, atheistic paediatrician turned protea grower, Elsie, a fallen RC prostitute turned millionaire, Teresa, a practising RC, gossipy dairy farmer who would rather be a ballet dancer, Jane, a convicted murderer and meditative painter who wanted to be a Buddhist nun, Sophia, a zoologist researching the mating habits of ring-tailed possums and an foul-mouthed, recalcitrant, abused twelve-year old genius who knits.
Mix them up, add Arua, the Goddess of Women, in a bright-white light on a rainbow and what does the world get? A social phenomenon? A new religion? A political movement? A safe haven? A war? Read this book and decide for yourself.
Author Note
I started this book after a couple of friends told me they had been sexually abused by their fathers. The story was to be about sexual abuse but took on another life entirely, despite my best intentions.
After I’d finished, I was left wondering what it was all about and decided it was about safety, a place of safety for all women. I hope you enjoy this fantasy of mine and you left wanting to go there.
Don’t go looking for Majenup as you won’t find it. It is actually the name of an old road near Nannup in the middle of the bush in the South West of Western Australia. The place and all the characters are a figment of my imagination although the countryside around Nannup was my geographical inspiration.
Monday, October 26, 2015
A feminist fantasy novel set in the bush of Southwest Western Australia where a group of women neighbours, manipulated by a foul-mouth abused twelve-year-old, create a system of rites and rituals for women which grows so quickly the world takes notice, despite the founding members, most of whom don't really know what it is all about. This story is sad, funny, and challenging.
In the glorious southwest bush region of Western Australia women neighbours take the world by storm.
Meet Ana, atheistic paediatrician turned protea grower, Elsie, a fallen RC prostitute turned millionaire, Teresa, a practising RC, gossipy dairy farmer who would rather be a ballet dancer, Jane, a convicted murderer and meditative painter who wanted to be a Buddhist nun, Sophia, a zoologist researching the mating habits of ring-tailed possums and an foul-mouthed, recalcitrant, abused twelve-year old genius who knits.
Mix them up, add Arua, the Goddess of Women, in a bright-white light on a rainbow and what does the world get? A social phenomenon? A new religion? A political movement? A safe haven? A war? Read this book and decide for yourself.
Author Note
Don’t go looking for Majenup as you won’t find it. It is
actually the name of an old road near Nannup in the middle of the bush in the
South West of Western Australia. The place and all the characters are a figment
of my imagination although the countryside around Nannup was my geographical
inspiration.
Meet Ana, atheistic paediatrician turned protea grower, Elsie, a fallen RC prostitute turned millionaire, Teresa, a practising RC, gossipy dairy farmer who would rather be a ballet dancer, Jane, a convicted murderer and meditative painter who wanted to be a Buddhist nun, Sophia, a zoologist researching the mating habits of ring-tailed possums and an foul-mouthed, recalcitrant, abused twelve-year old genius who knits.
Mix them up, add Arua, the Goddess of Women, in a bright-white light on a rainbow and what does the world get? A social phenomenon? A new religion? A political movement? A safe haven? A war? Read this book and decide for yourself.
Author Note
I started this book after a couple of friends told me they
had been sexually abused by their fathers. The story was to be about sexual
abuse but took on another life entirely, despite my best intentions.
After I’d finished, I was left wondering what it was all about and decided it was about safety, a place of safety for all women. I hope you enjoy this fantasy of mine and you left wanting to go there.
After I’d finished, I was left wondering what it was all about and decided it was about safety, a place of safety for all women. I hope you enjoy this fantasy of mine and you left wanting to go there.
Other eBooks coming soon.
In November 2015
Creating Characters - A Workbook for Fiction Writers
This book is the first 2 chapters of the complete course called Create and Craft Tall Stories - A Workbook for Fiction Writers. This book deals with most issues faced by aspiring writers when starting out and for building characters out of the air.It includes notes on, and exercises in, the introduction to writing, setting up to write, how to increase creativity, journal writing, names, driving force and a very detailed character chart with ideas for almost all aspects of a character.
At the end of the course (if you have done all the work) you will have completed a short story ready to go. This course accrued from notes handed out to students over several years of teaching creative fiction writing for TAFE and in smaller groups in Australia. The complete book Create and Craft Tall Stories will be av
Creating Characters will get any aspiring writer started on the right path before the complete book becomes available.
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Born and educated in Dunedin New Zealand. Now retired and living in Busselton, Western Australia.
As a humanist, she consider that all people, are more important than any belief system.
As a feminist, she believes that women, though different from men, are equal to them in all ways.
She is an atheist who thinks the whole idea of god is an unknowable concept.
She votes Green for no other reason than have more compassion for people than any other political party.
The current types of democracy in the world are not really democratic.
How can voting every 3 or 4 years for one or t'other and have to put up them and their many stupid ideas for the next 4 years. With the advance in technology why are the voters not asked by their representative what they think about all major issues and do we say and not the party.
The overpopulation of the world is the one major causes of climate change but no-one seems to worry much about it. is her other main concern
About Ruth Punton
As a humanist, she consider that all people, are more important than any belief system.
As a feminist, she believes that women, though different from men, are equal to them in all ways.
She is an atheist who thinks the whole idea of god is an unknowable concept.
She votes Green for no other reason than have more compassion for people than any other political party.
The current types of democracy in the world are not really democratic.
How can voting every 3 or 4 years for one or t'other and have to put up them and their many stupid ideas for the next 4 years. With the advance in technology why are the voters not asked by their representative what they think about all major issues and do we say and not the party.
The overpopulation of the world is the one major causes of climate change but no-one seems to worry much about it. is her other main concern
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