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Maya Gouliard

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Maya Gouliard is a fantasy author and artist based in Rantoul, Illinois. She writes books for women in their 40s and 50s who are ready to find out who they are - now that they finally have time to ask.

Her Chroma series begins with Waterweaver - a cozy dystopian fantasy about a midlife mother who volunteers for a dangerous journey because no one else will go, and discovers who she really is along the way. Readers keep telling her it’s the book they were looking for without knowing it.

She wrote it to process her own empty nest. It turns out it was the book her readers needed too.

When she’s not writing, she makes art, crochets small creatures, and tends a chaos garden that is very much on purpose. She lives with her husband, two black cats, an
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Waterweaver

4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions
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Terraweaver (CHROMA Book 2)

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"Terraweaver is a splendid second addition to the Chroma series. Water has been returned to the village, why would she leave again? Lara's debilitating headaches are a compelling reason for her to venture out into the color realms for a second time. L" Read more of this review »
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"A new kind of coming of age story

Self-published indie-author Maya Gouliard created a new type of fiction with her debut novel, Waterweaver.

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