Woman Without a Name
Book Two of the Princess Awakening Saga
Woman Without a Name is a new kind of princess story—one that takes seriously the trauma of the old princess tropes and then takes back the power over women’s bodies and stories.
The princess who falls seven times rises eight.
That’s the protagonist of Woman Without a Name.
She’s a Medieval princess. She dresses in high fashion. She battles anxiety and PTSD because of her repressed childhood and disillusioned expectations. She doesn’t know how to cook, sew or build a fire from scratch. But when she experiences the greatest fall of her life, she rebuilds on what she has left—the heart of a leader, the curiosity of a lover and the mystic vision of a prophet.
Art by Caley Soria.
What more can I say without spoiling the plot? The first book, Tower of Sand, ends on a massive cliff hanger...
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Project Update, June 15, 2021:
Book two of the Princess Awakening Saga is currently written and in the second draft. (I usually do about ten drafts.) The word count is 85,000 and growing.
Project Update, July 30, 2021:
The attempt to fund the project (editing, consultations, art and publishing of the second book) failed on Kickstarter. Time to step back and change focus….
Project Update, August 5, 2022:
There hasn’t been much time to write in the last year, but here’s a sneak-peak at some of my Book Two research:
The Visions of Isobel Gowdie, Emma Wilby
Same-sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
Witchcraft Cocktails, Julia Halina Hadas
Know My Name, Chanel Miller
Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen, Gabriele Uhlein