Next stop: a book launch in Glastonbury

ninatorAs soon as we’re over the #lovehangover event, we’ll be heading off for a very important book launch. Established crime writer and our erstwhile member Nina Milton is launching the third in her Shamanic Mystery Series Beneath the Tor in the centre of Glastonbury on Saturday Feb 27th. Do join us if you can.

Beneath the Tor, published by Midnight Ink (Llewellyn Worldwide), features young Somerset shaman, Sabbie Dare, who enlists the help of the spirit world to fight the dark side of humanity.

All the Shaman Mysteries are set in the beautiful, but sometimes eerie landscape of the Somerset Levels, but Beneath the Tor opens on Midsummer Eve at the top of Glastonbury Tor, where beautiful Alys Hollingberry dies suddenly after dancing the night away. The book has its own cast of Glastonbury characters and examines many of the myths and legends of this mystical town.

IMG_0031The launch will take place at

The Avalon Rooms
at the Glastonbury Experience  (2-4 High Street BA6 9DY)
2pm on Saturday 27th February

All Nina Milton’s books will be available at a special launch price.

Ronald Hutton, professor of history at Bristol University, and author of Pagan Britain will give a talk on shamanism today, and Nina Milton will give readings of her work and sign copies of her books.

Complimentary refreshments will be served and blues guitarist Arthur Billington will provide acoustic music. All book lovers are invited, and admission is free.

Born in Bristol, Nina has been writing since she could hold a pen, and holds an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Nina Milton
Nina with her first Sabbie Dare novel

She began her writing career when she was awarded the Wells Festival of Literature Short Story Prize. She returned to the prize-giving in 2015 to talk about what can happen after winning. Milton Nina Milton is also a Druid with shamanic training. “Druidry takes me close to the earth and into the deep recesses of my mind. Shamanic techniques help me in my life – in fact  they changed my life.”

If you’re a reader or writer, Nina will be happy to chat to you at the Launch Event; “I love talking about my passion, writing,” she says. “Talking about it makes a break from the actual writing!”

Here are some reviews of her books:

Embark on Nina Milton…and you won’t stop reading…

Naomi Lewis, Sunday Observer

Nina Milton has created a unique fictional world in her Shaman Mystery Series, featuring Sabbie Dare as a young shaman. With Beneath the Tor  she passed the ultimate test of a writer, that of causing me to put off useful jobs which I really should have been doing, in order to see what happens next. She has become a mistress of plot-weaving, and above all, she pulls off the trick of setting the totally fantastic amid the totally everyday and making the two fit together with pace and excitement…

Ronald Hutton, author of Pagan Britain and The Triumph of the Moon.

This third mystery of the series hits the ground running. I read the book straight through with only some sleep in between. It’s not necessary to have read the first two to read this one. Wonderful mix of modern grit and ancient magic…

Chesapeake Reader Amazon.com review, December 2, 2015

Sabbie Dare is the most compelling protagonist I’ve met this year, and Milton’s tale is riveting…the visceral suspense Milton creates is commendable, not to mention terrifying. I like pairing her work with Elly Griffiths’s atmospheric English mysteries

…Library Journal

Milton puts an intriguing New Age spin on the traditional English mystery

…Publisher’s Weekly

Nina’s Backlist

In the Moors, 2013
Unraveled Visions, 2014
Beneath the Tor 2016

Milton’s books for older children, Sweet’n’Sour (HarperCollins) and Tough Luck (Bristol Publishers ThornBerry) were both set in Bristol.

She has a long track record as a short story writer, winning the Wells Literary Festival Short Story Prize among others.

And some of Nina’s most recent short stories can of course be read in our own Unchained Anthology.

Contact:

email kitchentablewriters@live.com and learn more about her writing at http://kitchentablewriters.blogspot.com

 

 

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