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Nanima Series

If you haven’t started the Nanima Series yet, you may like to! Here are a few reviews:

  1. I gobbled up Nanima. It’s so comforting to have your presence through these books. I very much relate to the narrator, so curiously and wisely witnessing this world. 
  2. A spiritual experience. An unusual fiction. Goddard’s book is a great depiction without being stereotypical.
  3. Spiritual in the best way.
  4. A story with something special.
  5. Well written and thought-provoking. 

Available as single books, combined volumes, and audiobooks from most online outlets. The Nanima Series is a unique story journalling the inner evolution of a spiritual seeker within the context of her relationships and life. It is set in the equally unique environment of rural Australia.

As Audiobook

Google Play  Audible, Amazon

Or, if you are on Spotify (Premium), you can listen to all my audiobooks for free.

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Sonder (Book 3 of Nanima Series): Everyone Has a Story

When the first month of winter is as cold as Black Forest, the long stretch ahead can seem rather daunting. The outside section of Sonder was empty, although inside was busy and buzzing as usual. The other cafes in town did alright, enough to get by, with the bonus of freedom. They would shut for all sorts of reasons—fire weather, winter break, baby born, spouse sick, no staff, mental health, changed our minds. Sonder, however, was different.

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AUDIOBOOK of Together (Book 2 of Waldmeer Series) is now available

Together (Book 2 of Waldmeer Series) is now available as an audiobook.

Listening to audiobooks is:

  1. An easy way of reading.
  2. An energetically powerful way of connecting with an author and their work.
  3. Time efficient (you can multi-task—listen and drive, walk, run, or go to sleep).

Together is available on most audiobook sites (see below).

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Riverland Series (children’s story age 6-9)

Riverland Playlist on YouTube

I wasn’t the first one in my family to visit Riverland. The first one was Uncle Tim. He was five when he went. I wasn’t around when he was five. I was invisible. My mother says that nowadays, I’m very visible. That’s because I’m seven and a half. Seven and a half is much older than seven. Halves matter a lot when you’ve only been visible for a short amount of halves. I guess halves don’t matter much when you have been around as long as Nannie.

Uncle Tim went to Riverland because of his dog, Bella Number 2, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel, which is a rather grand name for a roly-poly, snorty-porty, smoochy-pouchy sort of dog.

Lie flat on your back with your arms and legs stretched out. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath into your stomach—in and then out. Take another breath in. Slowly breathe out. Feel your body relaxing into the bed. One more deep breath in. This time when you breathe out, completely relax as if your body is sinking into the middle of your mattress.

What about me? When did I go to Riverland? I was five, and a dog was also involved. You guessed it—a Cavalier. Nannie says for her, all the Cavaliers roll into one jolly, round, fluff-ball of smilingness.

I’m sorry that the next part of the story is sad but don’t worry. Sometimes, the very happiest things come from the very saddest things.

GOODWOOD

At nine, you know a lot of things. You know more than your parents think you know. You know a lot, but you don’t know so much that you have forgotten everything you knew before you came here. Nannie tells me not to forget what I knew before here. She also says not to worry if I do because I’ll get it back again later. So far, so good. I have not forgotten Riverland, and it has not forgotten me.

Learn more about Riverland

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Nanima Series Background

Here are some real-life places on which the fictional places of the Nanima Series are based.

  • The fictional town of Nanima is rural Wellington, N.S.W., Australia.
  • The main female character has adopted the Aboriginal name of Maliyan, the Wiradjuri name for wedge-tailed eagle (totem for the Binjang mob of Wellington).
  • Fictional Luna Tiks cafe (Four Cats) is across the road from the empty, pink dance school.
  • Cathedral Cave (Wellington Caves) is where Maliyan meets the spirit of Wandaang, who wants his ancestor’s bones back.
  • The tiny fictional town of Yan Yan Gurt (where Maliyan’s ancestors come from) is Stuart Town.
  • Historic Stuart Town cemetery is the Yan Yan Gurt cemetery where Maliyan senses her ancestor’s spirits.
  • The mystic artist character, Euroka, gets his name from a family property in the area.
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Geboor (Book 2 of Nanima Series): Shophouse

“I think you are on the spectrum, boo,” said Luna.

Maliyan laughed and thought, Always the joker.

Luna wasn’t smiling and continued sympathetically, “Lots of people are. I mean, I like people on the spectrum. I find them interesting.”

Maliyan wasn’t sure what was worse—Luna’s diagnosis of her mental state or his trying to make it better by kindly reassuring her that, regardless, it was fine with him. It made it all the funnier or all the more disturbing.

Being in the middle of making a sandwich, he didn’t look up but said, “That’s why you don’t get jokes. You take things literally. Your brain is wired differently.”

Maliyan had been living in the shophouse since late spring when Euroka returned from Uluru and took back his hut. After some teething problems, she, Luna, and Iggy adjusted to each other’s fairly constant company in a small space.  At first, Maliyan thought that Luna suggested she move in because Euroka was back and her own house was rented until the end of summer. However, after a while, she suspected that he had other motives. Sometimes, she thought it was because he felt she was strange enough without getting more so down on the Bell all by herself. This morning’s conversation about her mental state seemed to support that hypothesis.

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Going Wide—Publishing

After publishing exclusively with Amazon for the first ten years of my author career, I have decided to Go Wide. Going wide means selling books across multiple platforms and retailers rather than limiting oneself to Amazon exclusively.

Spiritual progress is inevitably accompanied by better human circumstances in one way or another.

Learn more about writing and publishing in Writing: A Spiritual Voice

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The Love of Being Loving—Audiobook on Amazon Audible

The Love of Being Loving is now available as an audiobook on Audible (Amazon) and other audio sites. The holiday period is ideal for setting aside dedicated time for your spiritual and personal growth. That way, you are setting up 2023 to be a wonderful, productive, painless, happy year. Listening to my new audiobook, The Love of Being Loving, will assist you with this goal. It is made with repeat listening in mind, which benefits students of life wishing to truly transform their consciousness.

Donna Goddard on Audible (Amazon)
To get audiobooks through Audible, go to Amazon in your country.

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