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Helena Sorensen

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Helena Sorensen grew up outside Tampa, Florida in a little backwater called Fort Lonesome. She is not making this up. As a child, she went exploring in the orange groves, searching for empty shotgun shells and fragments of broken glass. Since then, she has performed in show choirs and chamber choirs, received a degree in Music Education, written songs and poems, and traveled to Italy and Ireland. She never saw any of this coming.

She also had no idea of becoming either a mother or a writer, yet here she is, living in Nashville with two kids and four published books to her name. She ponders the humor of the divine and the strange adventure of living while she drinks kombucha on the porch and reads everything from Ursula Le Guin to Dave Barry ...more

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What are some of your favorite books of all time?

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I've made a bookshelf on my page with favorite books, but there are at least 60 in that list. Maybe I haven't narrowed them down quite en…moreHi, Rachael!

I've made a bookshelf on my page with favorite books, but there are at least 60 in that list. Maybe I haven't narrowed them down quite enough? :)

The Great Divorce, Till We Have Faces, The Hobbit, Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief Series, The Tombs of Atuan, The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown, The Eyes of the Dragon, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wuthering Heights, Revolutionary Road, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Persuasion, Great Expectations, East of Eden, The Remains of the Day, Twice-Told Tales, Edith Hamilton's Mythology, anything by Buechner, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Evangeline...

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What made you want to follow up Shiloh with a prequel?

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When I started writing Shiloh, I had no idea where I was going. There was no master plan. So when I finished book 1, I knew the story …moreGood question!
When I started writing Shiloh, I had no idea where I was going. There was no master plan. So when I finished book 1, I knew the story wasn't over, but I felt that it was almost over...too close to the end to fill three books (which felt like the right length for a series).
Also, I was intrigued by the connection between Evander and Amos, and I wanted to explore the question of what happened to the Lost Clan. It seemed like a nice, nuclear story. More than that, it was destined to be a tragic story, and the second book in a series is always the darkest. I had a few scraps of information from Shiloh: Evander as the Father of the Sun Clan, Valour, the lantern, and the awful fate of those brave clansmen and women. It was so much fun to build a story on top of that, especially discovering Mina, this unbelievable young woman who appears in none of the legends, but who played such a vital role in Evander's story.
One last reason I chose this story as a follow-up to Shiloh: this series is about more than physical darkness. Pain and loss and fear and despair are woven into the fabric of that world, and to rush from one adventure to the next to the next without pausing to honor the things that were lost felt wrong to me. I don't know how readers will react to the book, but I make no apologies for the grief in this story. The Lost Clan, and all loss, needed to be honored, and Seeker was how I chose to do it.(less)

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	Shiloh (Shiloh #1) 4.22 avg rating — 893 ratings — published 2013 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Door on Half-Bald Hill by Helena Sorensen (Goodreads Author), Stephen Crotts (Illustrations) 4.14 avg rating — 627 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Molehill, Vol. 5 by A.S. Peterson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Russ Ramsey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Helena Sorensen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jonathan Rogers (Contributor) 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A Path of Delight: Building the World of The Door on Half-Bald Hill

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The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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I love her. I do. One of these days, I may go and sit on the curb outside Megan Whalen Turner's house and weep, because I will never write stories like she does, and I will never write a character like Eugenides. But that is all right. It's enough th ...more
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“Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.”
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“The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride and groom. It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the king closed his eyes and rested his forehead in the hollow of the queen's shoulder, like a man seeking respite, like a man reaching home at the end of the day.”
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“He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies.”
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“Will there be poppy juice in it?"
Phresine shook her head.
"Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.”
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