Authorpreneur Dashboard – Lynne Cantwell
Fissured: Book Two of the Pipe Woman Chronicles
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Naomi’s having a bad week. She’s already overwhelmed by setting up her solo mediation practice and second-guessing her relationship with Joseph. An old acquaintance seems to be setting up shop down the road from their friend Charlie’s ranch. And Charlie has a new pal: a filmmaker who might be the Investigator – except that he doesn’t exactly believe in teamwork. Then a jaguar attacks her in downtown Denver….
Book Bubbles from Fissured: Book Two of the Pipe Woman Chronicles
Just a little walk in the park at night.
Naomi and Joseph have argued -- something they seem to be doing a lot lately -- and she walked out to calm her nerves. Now, on the path along Cherry Creek, an uncharacteristic mist has risen, and something springs at her from the darkness. In Aztec myth, Tezcatlipoca is the brother (or one of the brothers) of Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent. Tezcatlipoca is an agent of chaos, and his animal totem is the Jaguar.
Tapped: Book Three of the Pipe Woman Chronicles
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Ah, winter in South Dakota…. Naomi Witherspoon, chosen by a Lakota Indian goddess to mediate a truce in heaven, is in the midst of a number of down-to-earth problems. She hasn’t heard from her boyfriend, Joseph, in weeks. She has also been attacked recently by a man channeling an Aztec jaguar god. Her best friend Shannon thinks she ought to get out of town for awhile – but what Shannon proposes is a road trip to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to track down Naomi’s father, who doesn’t know she exists. Naomi agrees to go, but the additional stress literally makes her sick. Their search is complicated by a surly teenager; a mysterious walled compound that may or may not belong to Loki, the Norse Trickster; and a blizzard or two. And why, to top it off, is Naomi dreaming of a wolf? As she tells Shannon, the way the woo-woo usually works, she figures the two of them are about to find out.
Book Bubbles from Tapped: Book Three of the Pipe Woman Chronicles
"I'm not a miracle worker!"
Naomi and Shannon have just arrived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Pine Ridge is one of the poorest areas of the United States, and alcoholism is rampant. It's also where Naomi's father lives. Shannon has just touched on one of Naomi's fears -- that her Indian heritage will drag her down so that she can never go back to her old life. Partly in retaliation for that bit of truth, Naomi is teasing her friend by suggesting that Shannon's destiny might be to solve all of the Lakota's problems. But Shannon takes her seriously -- and realizes exactly how much White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman is expecting of Naomi. If Shannon can't save the Latoka, how can Naomi achieve peace in heaven?
Annealed
Literature & Fiction
It’s zero hour… Naomi has just two weeks to find a new home for Joseph's grandfather. The old Ute shaman is fighting for his life against a mysterious injection of toxin he received at the hands of the Norse Trickster god Loki. If Naomi is to defeat Loki once and for all, she must learn what it is he seeks under the old man's wickiup. She has just one week before she must mediate between the Earth's pagan gods and goddesses and the Christian God. If her efforts fail, all of humankind will suffer the consequences. And her baby is due any day. In this, the fifth and final book of the Pipe Woman Chronicles, Naomi is in a race against the clock to balance the demands of her body, her family, and her friends – and she must do it while the whole world is watching.
Book Bubbles from Annealed
Jehovah Has a Sense of Humor
Naomi has finally reached the Big Mediation -- the one between the Christian God and all the pagan gods and goddesses that the whole series has been driving toward. In this scene, White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman has just outlined all the ways humanity has trashed God's Creation: ruining the environment, using Scripture as an excuse to treat other human races like animals, and so on. God acknowledges all of that. But it's also clear that He takes great delight in what He has created -- and He has a sense of humor, too.
Seized: Book One of the Pipe Woman Chronicles
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The winter solstice 2012 won't be the end of the world. It will be the beginning of the end.... Naomi has a pretty sweet life. Respected as a skilled mediator, she has an almost uncanny knack for getting people on both sides of a dispute to agree. And her handsome boyfriend Brock has just proposed to her. But a white buffalo calf is bowing to her in her dreams. And who is the Native American man who has been following her around? Naomi doesn’t know it, but things are about to change....
Book Bubbles from Seized: Book One of the Pipe Woman Chronicles
"Something weird is going on."
This is the first time Naomi gets a clue about how much things have changed. She's a lawyer -- rational and level-headed -- and she doesn't believe in what she calls "the woo-woo". On the other hand, she's been settling mediation cases almost too easily, but she has written that off to her improving skill level. There's no way she can explain away this incident.
