About me and my writing....

 

About

This summer of 2024 I celebrated my 17th creative writing anniversary. I am an eclectic and a prolific author. Today I am a retired psychospiritual practitioner. As such, I draw on my counseling experience over the years and I often focus on social issues in my writing.

A spiritual person, I enjoy writing about the benefits of meditation, chakra balancing, and varied religions. For example, characters in The Observer - His Eye is on the Sparrow share with the reader about Christianity's views on being born again and also Hinduism views on reincarnation.

I love science fiction, as well as metaphysics. I love to combine the two in my writing. STRUGGLE - To Reach the Bridge of Light is a good example of this combination.

Romance, mystery - I enjoy writing both.

Creating characters is my passion. I love it when the characters tell me to sit back and enjoy because they are quite capable of expressing themselves. It's all I can do to keep up with them. Examples of this are Sara, a Canadian Saga and also Moose Road, a Canadian Tragedy.

My newest writing adventure is writing story books for children and I hope you will check out "One Day with Misty", "Elephant and the Bumbly Bee", and "The Last Drop" for the very young readers in your life.

For children aged 10 years to adult, check out "Beyond the Blue", a story in which a young boy, grieving the death of his father, finds magical, mystical ways to deal with school bullying.

One of my hobbies is acrylic and oil painting. I've lately used pictures of my paintings as my book covers; for example POartRY and PROSE and second in that series, MORE POartRY and Prose.

And very recently I discovered the joy of playing with AI ...... I am using pictures I create in this way for promotion of my books now..... and once I can travel further on this learning curve, I hope to use AI for book illustrations.

Thanks for visiting my author's page at

https://amazon.com/author/audreyaustin

Whatever your taste in reading, I'm sure you will find something in my eclectic offering of books to your liking. I always hope my readers will enjoy the reading as much as I enjoy the writing. :-)

Books for Children

 I am an author of books for all ages, and I enjoy writing for children. All my books are available on all Amazon sites. You can visit my author's page at https://amazon.com/author/audreyaustin

About the Author & Elephant and the Bumbly Bee

 

About the Author

Audrey Austin was born and raised by her parents in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She often describes herself as one who tends to do everything backward. When I asked her what she meant by this she replied, "Well, at a very early age I married and before long my two daughters arrived. Having only a high school education I waited until my children were grown before going back to school. I attended University of Toronto and later graduated from Transformational Arts College. I have lived in Toronto & its suburbs; Prince Edward Island and in New Zealand. I have enjoyed other international travel but only as a tourist in countries such as Thailand; Korea; Bahamas; Bermuda; Columbia, Puno and Cartagena in South America. I have held several jobs throughout my life but basically I held the positions of legal transcriptionist; teacher and psychospiritual practitioner in private practice. I always wanted to write and I did write in a small way as a hobby but I never made any attempt at publication. It was not until I retired at an uncertain age that I finally made the promise to myself that I would fulfill my dream of being an author. Since that day I have worked very hard though it does not feel like work. I love creative writing and how can something one loves so much be classified as work? I have written novels, novellas, short stories, some of which are in anthologies, and some, like Daniel, which dare to stand alone. Drawing on my experience as a teacher/therapist I put together what is so far my only book on personal growth. I have no diplomas or degrees in creative writing. I have only the imagination and the desire to allow the wonderful characters I create the freedom to express and the time to tell their stories. I do my best to keep up with the characters and I hope you will enjoy what I write."

Check out my author's page at https://amazon.com/author/audreyaustin

Elephant and the Bumbly Bee is my third story book written for the enjoyment of young readers.  Elephant and the Bumbly Bee set off on an exciting travel adventure and become the very best of friends.

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