Books
Non-fiction:
Weaving a Woman's Life: Spiritual Lessons from the Loom is a pattern for living passionately, creatively, and spiritually.
Paula Chaffee Scardamalia, accomplished and acclaimed weaver, writer, and dream coach, interprets life with lessons she learned at the loom.
Scardamalia defines the warp of our past, and increases our power to soften and blend it with the weft of our choices of today. She gently guides us to weave time, space, ritual, mistakes, forgiveness, and loss into the warp, the foundation of our lives.
Weaving a Woman's Life is meditation, methodology, and mentoring for any woman who wants to design or repair the fabric of her life with insight, humor, common sense, and compassion.
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Fiction:
The Shadow Weaver
In the tradition of Gregory Maguire's WICKED and Robin McKinley's DEERSKIN, THE SHADOW WEAVER takes a classic tale and turns it on its head. In this rich and evocative tale, the first in a trilogy, the heroine is not Sleeping Beauty, but rather the one who places the spell of death upon her-her half-sister and shapeshifter, Hepzibah.
Raised from infancy by the local temple of priestesses, Hepzibah grows up unaware of her royal birth. Fiercely intelligent and independent, she is mocked and rejected by the other temple initiates, and when she discovers her shapeshifting ability, it serves as a release for her hurt and frustration. But when Hepzibah discovers her true identity as the daughter of the king just in time for the naming day of his new and beloved infant daughter, Arielle, she becomes determined to right the wrongs done to her.
Hepzibah sneaks into the ceremony to confront her father, and when he refuses to acknowledge her, she is filled with rage and lays the fated curse on her baby half-sister. Now truly alone, Helzibah seeks refuge in a forest cave, and unwittingly stumbles upon the one individual who can appreciate her complicated identity and the pain she has experienced. Through this relationship, Hepzibah begins to understand her powers, her ancestry, and her destiny, ultimately bringing redemption and healing to her and to those she loves.
This fantasy novel is also currently looking for a publishing home.
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CD'S
The Tower in the Woods: Dreaming Your Creativity Awake -
Using the tower as a metaphor for creativity, this CD provides settings, instructions, and drumming for journeying to find the ideal creative space, a creative guide or muse, the library of current and future creative projects, and an animal companion for the creative journey. Each location is a separate journey with its own drumming track. $15 plus shipping.
To order by e-mail - paula@weavingthedream.com
