Join Zena Shapter to celebrate the launch of her new release When Dark Waters Burn, on Saturday the 31st of May, 5:30pm at Harry Hartog Warringah Mall.

Zena will be talking about the book, her creative process, the deeper meanings and themes in her work, and how to avoid being eaten by gargantuan carnivorous trees and enormous venomous water-ants!

Light refreshments will be served.

Here’s what readers are already saying about the book:

‘When Dark Waters Burn is a fascinating and utterly original world. A great adventure!’ Ian Irvine, the internationally bestselling author of The Three Worlds fantasy sequence.

‘A timely epic futuristic quest, fast paced and absorbing, with a slow burn romance that will leave readers wanting more. Readers will be gripped by this thrilling and immersive tale from one of Australia's most exciting and inventive writers.’ Multi-award-winning and CBCA Notable author Pip Harry (August & Jones).

‘When Dark Waters Burn held me captive from page one! This engaging, action-packed fantasy world will appeal equally to lovers of fantasy and science fiction. Five out of five stars.’ USA Today Bestselling Author Dionne Lister (The Circle of Talia).

About the Book

Stay out of sight. Stay hidden under the lake. Even as giant water-ants scout the surface, and deadly trees slop their hungry roots along the shoreline. For unrest surges in the swamps, getting closer and closer… Sala will only be safe for as long as their ship’s location remains a secret.

But when a horrifying threat ignites close to home, and the lakeside hillfarms are forced to reveal a desperate truth, it unleashes a wreckage of terror and destruction on the world of Palude. What Sala fears most becomes irrelevant. All she can do is run, and make one irrevocable choice after another. If she’s to have any kind of future, she must fight to accept the collapse of her past. Hiding from it was never an option.

About Zena Shapter

Zena Shapter is a multi-award-winning author of science fiction, fantasy, speculative and contemporary fiction, conjuring journeys into the beyond and unusual. Author of When Dark Roots Hunt, Towards White, and co-author of Into Tordon, among others, she’s a ‘writer with a need for adventure’ (Midnight Echo magazine), ‘a specialist in the weird, wacky, wonderful’ (Writing NSW), creating ‘the kind of excitement and suspense and pure pleasure that made me want to become a writer’ (Lillian Csernica, Tangent Online), ‘cold and brutal’ (Tor.com) and ‘beautifully crafted and well told stories that deserve to be read many times’ (Glen Miles Short Story Prize).

She loves movies, frogs, chocolate, potatoes, and living with her family on Sydney’s beautiful Northern Beaches, where she’s also an inclusive creativity advocate, writing mentor and editor.

Find her online via @ZenaShapter and zenashapter.com

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