About Me
- Satima Flavell
- Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- I am based in Perth, Western Australia. You might enjoy my books - The Dagger of Dresnia, the first book of the Talismans Trilogy, is available at all good online book shops as is Book two, The Cloak of Challiver. Book three, The Seer of Syland, is in preparation. I trained in piano and singing at the NSW Conservatorium of Music. I also trained in dance (Scully-Borovansky, WAAPA) and drama (NIDA). Since 1987 I have been writing reviews of performances in all genres for a variety of publications, including Music Maker, ArtsWest, Dance Australia, The Australian and others. Now semi-retired, I still write occasionally for the ArtsHub website.
My books
The first two books of my trilogy, The Talismans, (The Dagger of Dresnia, and book two, The Cloak of Challiver) are available in e-book format from Smashwords, Amazon and other online sellers. Book three of the trilogy, The Seer of Syland, is in preparation.I also have a short story, 'La Belle Dame', in print - see Mythic Resonance below - as well as well as a few poems in various places.
The best way to contact me is via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/satimaflavell
Buy The Talismans
The first two books of The Talismans trilogy were published by Satalyte Publications, which, sadly, has gone out of business. However, The Dagger of Dresnia and The Cloak of Challiver are available as ebooks on the usual book-selling websites, and book three, The Seer of Syland, is in preparation.
The easiest way to contact me is via Facebook.
The Dagger of Dresnia
The Cloak of Challiver, Book two of The Talismans
Mythic Resonance
Mythic Resonance is an excellent anthology that includes my short story 'La Belle Dame', together with great stories from Alan Baxter, Donna Maree Hanson, Sue Burstynski, Nike Sulway and nine more fantastic authors! Just $US3.99 from Amazon.
Got a Kindle? Check out Mythic Resonance.
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Wednesday 19 September 2012
A place to call home
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 |
Posted by
Satima Flavell
Ever since mid-2005,
I’ve been on the move. It all started when the Boom hit Perth, and I learnt
from the estate agent who managed the block of flats I lived in that the owner
was going to kick everyone out at the end of the year so he could renovate the
block (and, of course, re-let the flats at a grossly inflated price).
People were
pouring into Perth from the eastern states, lured by the prospect of work in
the booming mining industry, so rents were on the up and up. I couldn’t
complain – my second husband and I had moved to Perth with our family in 1985
so he could take up a position as a Training Officer with the Argyle Diamond Mines.
For the first time in our lives one of us was earning good money! I was able to
go back to uni, first to do an Associate Diploma at the Western Australian
Academy of Performing Arts and later to do a BA in Religious Studies at Edith
Cowan University.
But then the
marriage broke down and I was forced into rental accommodation. In my late
forties I found myself looking for a job – and couldn’t get one: Australian
employers, by and large, do not like employing older people. By running a market
stall at weekends and taking what casual work I could get in between, I was
able to scrape by. But pretty soon the pathetic amount I got from the joint resources
of the marriage almost ran out, and I decided to use the last of it to fulfil a
life-long ambition to travel.
And travel I
did, for three and half years. By living and working in religious institutions
and hotels, I again scraped by and did a bit of research for a master degree
that I hoped to undertake when I got back to Oz.
But when I did
get back, three and half years later, I found the course had become one that
required fees up front, so I couldn’t afford it. Once again I found myself
running a market stall and doing casual work, and struggling to pay the
ever-increasing rents in Perth. The last straw was having to leave the
comfortable little flat I had in a cosy, leafy suburb only five minutes by
train from Perth city so the owner could renovate. The Boom had arrived and
rents were skyrocketing.
I undertook a three-month
house-sit for friends of relatives in South Australia, then to my relief I was
offered a flat back in Perth for only $120 per week. However, it was only
temporary – the lady who owned the block did not really want to rent the flats,
preferring to keep them for herself and her numerous goods and chattels. In
2006, accommodation in Perth being well beyond my means, I was obliged to move
to Mount Gambier, South Australia. That was when I started this blog.
About then, I
had a stroke of luck. Kind relatives in England and Germany paid for me to visit them, and I had a wonderful time exploring the old country and the Rhine
Valley. (I covered this period in my early posts to this blog.) When I got back
to Australia, I was offered several house-sits in Perth, and thus my
peripatetic lifestyle of recent years began. If you follow the above link and keep clicking on 'Newer post' each time you can read about my travels in England and Germany.
I really
preferred Perth to Mount Gambier (a pretty place, but very cold and wet for
many months of the year) and I missed my friends and activities in the West. So
every time I was offered a house-sit of any length I would head back to Perth.
As luck would have it, I got a lot of house-sits, varying in length from ten
days to three months. I was spending almost as much time in Perth as in Mount
Gambier, and finally, early in 2011, I decided to cut loose and rid myself of
my worldly goods, because I had a full year’s house sitting lined up in Perth.
It hardly
seemed worthwhile to pay rent in one town while living in another, so I packed
my bags and took to the road. The year stretched to eighteen months and
included two six-month sits, so I wasn’t quite as unsettled as I might have
been.
Actually, I’ve
been lucky. Apparently some people in Perth are living in their cars because
they can’t afford the crazily elevated rents of recent years. These days, a
flat like the one I had in Daglish would set me back several hundred dollars a
week!
I've come to realise, however, that I will not be able to continue this lifestyle for much longer.
With one hip dicky enough for the doctors to be mumbling about a replacement,
walking dogs and looking after gardens are not nearly as much fun as they used
to be. I put my name down at two retirement villages, but was told I would
probably have to wait up to two years to get rental accommodation.
But now the
house-sits have run out, and to be honest, I am tired of being on the road. Last
week, I rang one of the retirement villages and begged them to find me
somewhere to live, since within the fortnight I would be homeless! And I don’t
even have a car to sleep in. I was starting to have bad dreams about having to
sleep in shop doorways.
Miraculously,
the village had a bed-sitter vacant. I went to see it and was pleasantly
surprised to find it was self-contained with a nice kitchen and bathroom, and in
a clean and neat apartment block.
So I am
packing for what I hope will be last move for some time! I move in on Saturday
and will let you know how things pan out. Believe me, I shall be so happy to
put my feet up in a place to call home I will not mind that it is barely big
enough to swing a cat!
Sunday 9 September 2012
Another great little minicon!
Sunday, September 09, 2012 |
Posted by
Satima Flavell
Well, as usual, the KSP Minicon was a fun day with lots of lovely guests. We enjoyed the launch of Lee Battersby's new book, The Corpse Rat King, and it was great to have Lee as well as Amelia Beamer, Cathy Cupitt, Stephen Dedman, Elaine Kemp, Pete Kempshall, Martin Livings, Dave Luckett, Juliet Marillier, Ian Nichols, Anthony Panegyres, Guy Salvidge, JB Thomas and other local writers on panels. Nice to catch up with Michèle Drouart, Marian Foster and Annette Backshall, too. Many thanks to organisers Carol Ryles and David Kitson, and to Lynda Donovan and the rest of the team for a great meal, as well!
It was fun being on a panel about critiquing and editing with Amelia, Juliet and Pete. All the panels were worthwhile - I always learn something new at these events!
There were about 60 people there, which is just a nice number for the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre to hold comfortably. The weather gods smiled and the sun shone. It couldn't have been a nicer day!
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