Joanna Gawn

Hi! :)

I'm a writer with M.E. - and also have the changes of female middle age to navigate - therefore writing now only happens when I have "spare energy"!

I also love reading, being organised, visiting beautiful gardens and spending time on the moors or by the sea. I'm very happily married, and am owned by two cats. I love chocolate and am a stationery addict. I have a deep interest in subtle energies (I was a Reiki practitioner/teacher for several years, and brought some of those resources to our writing website and blog) and have regular Japanese acupuncture.

I write with my best friend and co-author, Ron Dickerson, who's Cornish - hence our novels being set in that beautiful, mysterious county! His background is in rugby, business, Rotary and Round Table. We attend our local writers' circle together; Ron is a keen poet, and of course loves reading too! He's also a pretty serious Francophile. :)

Writing our first novel, The Cordello Quest, has changed our lives. We are inspired by universal energy, the awakening of consciousness, galaxies and rivers and megaliths - and synchronicities.

In addition to writing novels, we also create lots of short stories, flash fiction and (now and then) haiku and other poetry. We have published some of our short stories in three collections: The House of the Stormwind, and Crystal, Fire and Water are both free to download in ebook format, while our latest 190-page collection Dark Perfume is available for 99p in Kindle format, and is also published in paperback.

Although I am passionate about reading, I rarely accept requests to review the work of others. However if I enjoy a book that I've read, I will often choose to rate and review it. I'm happy to accept friend requests from other members who are here to read and to share the books they've enjoyed ... not to promote their books to me. ;)

*** I am now only rating/reviewing books that will be shared as Recommended Reads on our blog at lazuliportalswriting.wordpress.com ***