Introducing Wendy Steele, one of the authors and speakers at the Llandeilo Christmas Book Fair Dec 9th

Wendy Steele will be reading from her latest novel, "The Orphan Witch" in Barr's Jewelry at 2:15pm and you can meet her also in the Shire Hall, showcasing her work during the Book Fair.

Here is the blurb to the book:
(Scroll further down for an article Wendy wrote about Witch-Lit)

Lizzie Martin is grieving.  

A road trip to Wales with her best friend, Louise should help and while she’s there, she wants to find her real mother and the truth about her father.

Lizzie returns home to discover her old boss, Edward Brown, is manipulating her life from prison. She must deflect angry phone calls from her ex-husband, consider a house move and new career path and become a modern day Boudicca, protecting those she cares about.

There is hope though.

The squirrels are on her side, the rescued chickens love their new home and, inspired by the Welsh landscape, Lizzie takes her magic out of The Sanctuary. 

Praise for "The Orphan Witch" : 5.0 out of 5 stars

A brilliant second installment of witch-lit - very enjoyable

A brilliant update on Lizzie Martin and the tale that keeps unfolding around her as she find more about who she is and who she wants to be - adventure, family secrets and chickens in abundance!
I loved it every bit as much as the first :)

Wendy Steele: Why Witch Lit?

Witch Lit is contemporary, magical realism, where the magical and the mundane co-exist. The stories are gritty and believable while magic is sprinkled through the stories, offering the reader a new perspective on reality.

Writing about women gives me the opportunity to write about a different kind of protagonist. My women don’t need to behave like men to succeed and they don’t need a man to define them. Their power, their strength, grows through the books as they learn to connect with both the feminine and masculine energy inside themselves, standing up for what they believe in and facing adversity with courage.

The media forces images on girls and women of impossible perfection of both looks and lifestyle and we’re left feeling inadequate. We’re isolated if we don’t choose to conform but I say, enough! Why can’t we be the beautiful, witty, sexy, intelligent, curvy women that we are? Why can’t we be proud of who we are and the way we choose to live our lives? Why do we have to conform to the images defined by the media that blinker men, programming them to believe that a beautiful woman looks and behaves a certain way?

I want to paint a different picture, write a ‘new story’ for women. My fiction features strong yet vulnerable women. My stories show girls and women that they can be whoever they want to be. They can follow their hearts, trust their instincts, believe in themselves, even enjoy not conforming and most importantly, experience magic in their lives.

I write about magic…real magic…the magic that fills our lives with moments of inspiration, hope, understanding, empathy and love.

But people say to me, ‘But magic isn’t real though, is it?’ It depends what you mean by real. Is magic tangible, measurable and scientifically proven? No, but neither is love.

Visit me on my blog www.wendysteele.com. I also have my own YouTube channel, Phoenix and the Dragon, where I tell stories on my riverbank https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw3ee9CuNdek9ZC1Im8I_iA

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In 1972, Wendy Steele came home from the Tutankhamun exhibition and wrote about her experience, beginning a writing journey which she still travels. Since working in the City BC (Before Children), she has trained in alternative therapies, belly dance and writing. Wendy combines these three disciplines to give balance to her life.

Her first novel 'Destiny of Angels' was published in 2012, closely followed by two short story anthologies and a non-fiction book 'Wendy Woo's Year – A Pocketful of Smiles', an inspirational guide, offering ideas, meditations and recipes to make every precious day, a happy one.

Moving to Wales, the fulfilment of a 15 year dream, inspired her to write the Standing Stone book series, set in Wales in the countryside she loves.

Writing workshops in Wales widened her writing perspective and the resulting short stories have been published online and in anthologies.

Wendy writes fantasy, with a dollop of magic, exploring the 'what if...?' the starting point for all her stories. She lives with her partner and cats, restoring her farmhouse and immersing herself in the natural world on her doorstep.