| LANCASTER, Texas (April 4, 2005)—C.L. Talmadge, author of the Green Stone of Healing™ epic fantasy series now available from Quiet Storm Publishing, is familiar with the intimate link between spirituality, energy, and healing.
The author describes her work as “a blue-state version of ‘end-of-the-world’ fiction that does not take a traditional religious viewpoint. Instead, it examines alternative spiritual themes and sets forth a different interpretation of free will, good, and evil.”
The first book in the series, The Vision introduces first-generation heroine Helen Andros, an opinionated, tough-minded physician who wears a mysterious green stone. Helen is also emotionally wounded and vulnerable, an illegitimate half-breed in Azgard, a nation divided by race and rank. Caught in political machinations that almost cost her life, Helen learns her father’s true identity as one of the country's most powerful Toltec lords. Helen struggles with unaccountable rage unleashed within her by their meeting.
The revelation that impelled Helen’s Turanian mother to bear a despised half-breed comes to light thanks to the otherworldly Mist-Weavers. These ancient, secretive beings, appearing and dissolving at will, know of the jewel’s potentials. Targeted for death by the Temple of Kronos, Helen is unable to reconcile with her newfound parent. She must learn to make full use of the stone and necklace and an energy called kura if she is to survive and fulfill her spiritual path.
In 1999, Talmadge published a non-fiction book she co-authored about emotional and spiritual healing resolution based on working in the energy of human consciousness. In this book, Talmadge provides an expanded definition of energy that demonstrates the link between matter, spirit, heart, and mind.
While writing her multigenerational novel, Talmadge, an energy-therapist, found herself drawing on her own past lives and those of her family, friends, clients, and acquaintances. The fictionalized result is the Green Stone of Healing™ series.
“Telling this story is the purpose I chose for this life,” says Talmadge, 50. “I’m convinced that reading this tale will help awaken soul memories for many people and help them along their unique spiritual paths.”
The author’s career as a writer began in 1976. She has been a fulltime staff reporter at or freelanced for numerous media that include Adweek, Business Week, the Dallas Times Herald, Forbes, the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, and Reuters America, among many others.
More information is available to the media by contacting the author at +1.972.227.8233 (author@greenstoneofhealing.com) or by visiting www.greenstoneofhealing.com/press.
Hardback: $26.95
Pages: 240
ISBN: 0-9744084-9-2
About Quiet Storm Publishing
Based in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Quiet Storm Publishing was founded in 2002 by mystery author Clint Gaige, who believes the bigger publishing houses miss too many quality books and authors. Although Quiet Storm focuses primarily on mysteries and sci-fi/fantasy, it also has published a selection of quality non-fiction. More information is available at www.quietstormpublishing.com. |
