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Desney King

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Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

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Desney King writes about love, relationships, death, grief, healing, interconnectedness, the world of nature, and life’s unfathomable mysteries. She is a retired book editor, and survivor of several strokes. Born in rural New South Wales, Desney now lives in Sydney in a light-filled apartment with a long view.
Transit of Angels is her debut novel.

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Desney King Why did the love of my life leave me?

After marrying young, maturing during my years at uni, and divorcing, I fell madly in love with a man I met at a …moreWhy did the love of my life leave me?

After marrying young, maturing during my years at uni, and divorcing, I fell madly in love with a man I met at a postgrad course. We embarked on a wildly passionate love affair unlike any I've known before or since, founded not only on intense physical attraction but also a meeting of minds and spirits; profound communication on many levels.
Yet after only two or three months, he ended it.
We were at the movies – watching The Removalist – when he stood up and said something like "I can't do this", and walked out.
I'm embarrassed to confess that I stalked him for the next couple of months, yet he never told me why he'd ended our relationship.
Twenty years (and two more divorces) later, I tracked him down and we arranged to meet for dinner. "Yes, it was real", he assured me.
But when I pressed him for an explanation as to why he'd left, he still couldn't – or wouldn't? – explain.
Will I ever know? Unlikely.
I'm seventy now and don't know whether he is even still alive.(less)

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Desney King By writing every day. Even if what I write never ends up in a finished manuscript.
Almost 16 years ago, I bought a copy of Julia Cameron's The Artist's…moreBy writing every day. Even if what I write never ends up in a finished manuscript.
Almost 16 years ago, I bought a copy of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, which advocates a core practice of morning pages: beginning each day with three hand-written pages of stream-of-consciousness writing. You don't reread it. And no one else reads it. It's a spill. Therapeutic and habit-forming.
I've been writing morning pages every day since I bought the book (well, I think I've missed about 10 days when I've been very ill in hospital).
Morning pages consolidate a daily writing practice.(less)

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It's launch day!

CELEBRATING THE LAUNCH OF TRANSIT OF ANGELS

Available now from online book retailers worldwide as a paperback, and as a Kindle ebook through Amazon.

Heartfelt thanks to my publisher, Pilyara Press – I couldn't have asked for better.

A shout-out also to Gleebooks, who are hosting my Zoom launch this Friday, the 23rd, and will be selling books online to Australian customers immediately afterwards (they Read more of this blog post »

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Published on October 18, 2020 14:52 • Tags: australian-fiction, grief-fiction, love-story, meditation, spiritual-quest

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The Lost Get-Back Boogie

by James Lee Burke

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Prized Possessions (Karl Alberg #5)

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Meditations: Marcus Aurelius' 12 Books Translated into Modern English

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February 2021 Group Read - Red or Pink cover

The Cottage at Rosella Cove by Sandie Docker

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Transit of Angels by Desney King

11 votes, 19.6%

Everyday Lies by Louise Guy

8 votes, 14.3%

In High Spirits by Beth Prentice

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“Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

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