Location: Canada
Member Since: Nov. 16, 2011

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Brenda Guiled

Biography

Brenda Guiled (rhymes with `wild`) is the author of non-fiction and fiction works for adults and children, published as books, curriculum materials, in newspapers, and more.
As an illustrator and graphic artist, she works in watercolours and digitally. She studies and teaches traditional Okinawan karate-do, as a way of life, never throwing the first strike (no tournaments), always working for win-win solutions.
She is married, has two grown children, two grandchildren, and lives on a West Coast island.

Smashwords Interview

Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I was born and grew up in Jasper National Park. This taught me to factor the Earth and nature into every decision, because it's the precious mother of us all.

I finished high school in an industrializing small British Columbia city, a once-beautiful agricultural and ranching valley with rivers and lakes full of trout and salmon. Growth, greed, and pollution killed most of those fruits of the earth and waters.

My grade 11 Biology teacher did a class exercise about population and consumption that turned me into an environmentalist since age 15. All the planet gobbling and messing predicted by those lessons have come true.

We have to start "wife-ing" the Earth and its resources in balance with our zealous husbanding. We need strong, wise women to lead us. Holy women, even, with gifts beyond the everyday miracles of life. We need some of God's daughters to reveal themselves as those leaders, if humanity is to collectively survive for many generations to come.
What's the story behind your latest book?
In church, at about age 10, I started to wonder where the women prophets and saviours were. If there were God-sent men worth following, then of course, there were women, too. The church, of every sort I knew, had no such vaunted place for women, however. They were sinners from birth and could, at best, be virginal saints. By age 13, I found that the church had no place for me either, because I wasn't allowed to question any of this.

As an adult, I'd look at Christmas creche scenes and wonder what would have happened if the Wise Man found a baby girl, instead of the expected boy. What if she were the second coming, the Christ after David? What if ...?
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Where to find Brenda Guiled online

Website: http://www.bguiled.com
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/brenda-guiled-like-wild-b7b70017

Where to buy in print

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0858WK5TX

Books

God's Daughter by
You set the price! Words: 112,270. Language: English. Published: February 25, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
Why are there so many sons as prophets and saviours, but no daughters? Of course, they exist and always have; but where are they? In this fast-paced, compelling story, three generations of miraculous women, with a baby girl to raise, navigate a world of dark forces determined to destroy them, their history, and their protectors. Facebook reading group: www.facebook.com/groups/499505147410289.
Winter of the Shifting Stars: Children's Story of a Lakota-Sioux Family, 1833 by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 29,500. Language: English. Published: May 17, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Historical / United States / 19th Century
Winter of the Shifting Stars is a fictional, illustrated story about a year in the life of a 10-year-old Lakota-Sioux girl, set in the year 1833. Enemy warriors had killed Blue Whirlwind’s father the previous year. Her village must prepare for war, to avenge this death, while continuing their traditional activities through the 13 moons of the year.
Spinster of Science: A Memoir, From Girlhood To B.Sc. Graduate by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 161,720. Language: Canadian English. Published: November 16, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction » Science & Nature » Life Sciences / General
A coming-of-age story about a girl with notions of becoming a scientist, to forward intelligent, sustainable human life on earth. What a gauntlet to run, overcoming stumbling blocks and thwartings without end. What an education, in how nature works, people behave, and human systems operate. What a graduation, into a world where science continues its many bad habits, to the detriment of all nature.
Christmas Island by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 15,960. Language: English. Published: November 17, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Holidays
A great Christmas Eve book for kids. A brightly illustrated story an elf named Finn, who knew Santa since he was a boy. He tells amazing stories to 8-year-old Penny on a lonely Christmas Eve. She's in a strange house with only a babysitter, waiting for cousin Matt to fly home after getting lost on Christmas Island. He's got amazing stories to tell, too, about his Christmas Island adventure.

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