January 2022 Release

Scion of Lightning will appeal to fans of Joe Abercrombie, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Brandon Sanderson, and George R. R. Martin.

This book is a timeline of my devastatingly long struggle with bipolar disorder type one, the most severe type. This story is specifically written to explain what it means to live with bipolar type one and in particular what it means to live with mania and mixed states. My story ...is interwoven with New Zealand and world events that have touched me. I feel strongly about current events that involve death and in particular events that involve a person's mental health, their pain and suffering and sometimes their suicide. Through my own pain and suffering I feel their pain. I have wanted to write this book for years but my mood swings often made writing impossible. I have been motivated to tell my story in the hope that more people will have some understanding of bipolar. I have experienced so much stigma, discrimination and judgement over the years from all sorts of people. Often the worst has come from some mental health professionals. When they do not understand, it is soul destroying. According to the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand experiencing bipolar is one of the most overwhelming, isolating and debilitating experiences you can have. I can vouch for that. My story is an inspiring, raw, brutally honest, eye-opening account of my moods over the years. I have journeyed through New Zealand's mental health system and I have worked through immeasurable pain brought on from living through bipolar's destructive moods. I have come out the other side with a story of hope. I have been to hell and back countless times on an endless cycle of illness and recovery. I have experienced soaring mania and devastating depression. I have experienced these soaring highs and devastating lows at the SAME time. I have been suicidal. I have attempted suicide. I have felt shame following mania. I have struggled through severe depression. I am a mental health survivor finally able to document my bipolar journey. ***Warning my story contains*** Anxiety and Pani
Read more

This book is the emotional intelligence view on how it feels to be different! With awareness and understanding we can make change! Buy this book! to be able to learn more about others and yourself! Down below is an example out of the book of a different way to look at th...e world, can you decode it? Hypothetically if our earth had a brain; we may only use 10% of its potential, but with this massive working of acceptance, we could change that percentage, to I would say far more than 20%; because we may have at less 50% more of the world actually contributing to the technology, sciences and creativity; That would extend the quality of the world we live in today, by marvelling the different perspectives of thoughts, feelings and looks. Making mental freedom only possible. It's your choice on who put the dis in front of the abilities and here my story for the inside view of a life with a disability.
Read more