Like To Step Over The Edge Of Reality?
If you like women’s fiction with a touch of magical realism, like authors Alice Hoffman or Sarah Addison Allen, you’ll enjoy fiction author Meredith Efken’s new literary direction.
With her latest release, Lucky Baby, and future writings, she aims to explore how real life merges with the world of faith and the realm of the unexplainable. Her style of magical realism takes the rich emotions and complicated characters found in women’s fiction and adds a touch of the miraculous, the mythic, or the fantastic.
Meredith Efken explains:
To me, magical realism is an opportunity to explore the unseen world of a person’s faith journey and their spiritual inner life. How does that magical universe inside a person interact with the every-day realities of the outside world?
This is a bit different from my previous books (the SAHM I Am series) which were comedies about stay-at-home mothers. But my new stories have the same emotional depth and relational focus, and at least a spark of that humor—because I just can’t help it! I want to invite my SAHM I Am readers to enjoy this new direction and discover how much fun magical realism in women’s fiction can be.
Find out more about books by Meredith Efken and the special readers’ community she has created, eCoterie. This community is exclusively for subscribers of her newsletter and website. In addition to greater interaction with Meredith, logged-in eCoterie members have access to extra features, character interviews, sneak peeks of upcoming books, and a contest where interacting on the site earns you points and prizes, as well as lots of other fun surprises.
Another unique feature of this site is the Real-Life Stories page, where readers can submit their own real-life stories that relate to the topics in Meredith’s books.
Reading groups are especially invited to subscribe and download the Reading Group Kit available only to eCoterie members. All reading group leaders are invited to contact Meredith to schedule a phone
interview with their reading groups.
Other website features include an online Media Kit and resources for fiction writers. The blog is a great way to get to know Meredith Efken. Subscribed eCoterie members are allowed to comment on posts and have access to private posts not available to the public.
It is Meredith’s hope that readers will feel comfortable and welcome to become part of her coterie of readers. If you have further questions, feel free to contact Meredith. For technical questions or difficulties, contact her husband, Jason, who doesn’t yet realize he’s been drafted as tech support.
