THE BASKET WEAVER

VOLUME ΟΝΕ

The peaceful world of Etérna has been invaded by a warrior race from another parallel after the Flute that brought harmony for six thousand years, is lost. When Zandor wakes up to the realization that he has no memories of the past, he starts searching for his lost identity and for a way to relearn the forgotten art of war in order to drive the race of the Kalodan away. At the same time, in Greece of 1967, Katerina, a university student, inherits from her grandfather a strange flute. Unaware of its origin and attributes, she embroils herself in an extramundane tragedy and in a love she can never redeem.

 

TWILIGHT OF A WORLD

VOLUME TWO

In the eastern Kingdom of Honora, the enemy attacks Makemba, daughter of king Elkan, aiming at the extinction of all heirs to the kingdoms of Etérna. Elkan tries to persuade his daughter to escape to the north. After a second attack, Makemba takes her nine month old daughter and leave with a company of eight people. Their goal is to learn to fight and as they travel more people join them. At the same time, Zandor escapes his destroyed kingdom of Alkyonis with his enemies pursuing him, and heads for Lythia in the far north. Along the way he tries to pass on the vision of training themselves to the art of war in order to deliver their land,

 

CORNERS OF THE SOUL

POETRY AND SHORT STORIES

Suffering, whether in the world around us or personal, can very often lead to the death of dreams and hopelessness. We feel fragile like something drifting in the storm and life becomes a prison from where there seems to be no way out. New hope comes when we set our eyes on a higher vision and turn our attention to the One Who holds the world’s foundation.  Even though we might still identify with the loveless and the lonely, our new hope gives us the strength to embrace what we have and go on.

This is an eighty-page book containing poems and short stories written in English. You can order it from Amazon in printed form.   

 

PURPLE WOUNDS

A novel of two parallel narratives Purple Wounds recounts the stories of a recently widowed author and his character, a retired missionary lady, who narrates her own story of abuse in the mission field when still a young woman. The book follows the healing process, both of the author and his character.

When widowed author Ray Gallagher decides to leave behind the juvenile fiction he’s been writing in order to write the stories of the older generation, he comes across the story of a retired missionary lady, her abuse as a young woman in the mission field and the love she left behind.

The novel follows the changes in the author’s life, along with that of his heroine, Jane Norwood, as she’s reminiscing the past and the way it has affected her personal identity.

 

NOBLE THEMES

43 POEMS AND A SHORT STORY

 

Faith, resilience and hope are necessary ingredients to move through life's adversities. Hardship, tragedy, misfortune, make us vulnerable to sadness and depression and build in us a sense of being foreign to the world, exiled in our home and land, fragile.... Still... we come to recognize the shadows of life and through all the parched places He that names the stars has been walking beside us all along...He is the on true friend who understand the composition of psyche...

 

    Biography

 

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Elena Tinga was born in Porti Mouzakiou, in Greece, and she was a book lover since childhood. By the time she was sixteen, she had read a great number of classic literature and was dreaming of becoming an author herself. This would remain a dream for many years. Meanwhile, she studied Architectural Design, German, English, and in 1989, she graduated with a Bachelor in Religious Education, from a College in Alberta, Canada. Her life, a mosaic of changes and translocations, brought her in 1991 in Illinois, where she happened to attend workshops in Creative Writing for seven days. Suddenly, the half-forgotten dream had appeared before her like a long lost friend, “It’s me, you remember me?” She says, “I have called those days, ‘seven days in paradise’, so happy I was.” For the next several years, she worked in a small publishing house in the Caribbean, and received two degrees through United States schools; one in Art and one in Writing Techniques. In Greece, she worked in various jobs of a mainly artistic nature, and with translations. In 2002, and after painful losses, she started painting seriously and exhibiting her work. Between 2002 and 2008, she received two more degrees from the United States, one as a Free Lance Writer and one in Web Design. She started her first novel of the trilogy GOTHE, Generation of the Eagle, titled ‘The Basketmaker’, while studying for her Master’s Degree in the United States and she wrote it in English. She finished it in Greece and later she decided to translate it into Greek. Elena continues to write in both languages.