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S.A. Rule

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Born

in Croydon, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.shehaios.co.uk

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction

Influences

Matthew Kneale; TH White, Anon, Tolkien, CS Lewis, Allan Massie, Anton ...more

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January 2008

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Sue Rule is a British author, now living in the Highlands of Scotland.

She has been writing since the age of 7. She claims she kept trying to give it up, but it wouldn’t let her, so she embarked on creating the fantasy series “Shaihen Heritage”. The series grows out of Sue’s love of history and folklore, and tracks the fictional history of an imagined world which is not unlike our own. The process of imagining that world has led her to think about how we might seek to create “The Fair Land” in the real world.

A bereavement in 2011 interrupted the writing of the imagined history of the imagined land, but Sue has now picked up the laptop again and the next novels in the Shaihen Heritage series are well underway. Watch this space.

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Average rating: 3.9 · 67 ratings · 31 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Cloak of Magic (Shaihen Heritage, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Staff of Power (Shaihen Heritage, #2) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spirit of Shehaios 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hills of Gold: Shaihen Heritage Children of the Spirit: Volume II 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Economic Reality Check

I’m not writing fiction at the moment. I am suffering an overdose of reality. So here’s my two-pennyworth on changing banking culture, and why persisting in paying bankers excessively high salaries is fatally damaging to the world’s economy.

It is the work of ordinary folk that drives the economy. Not the gambling games of highly-paid men in sharp suits. It is our money - the output of manufacturi Read more of this blog post »

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Published on July 13, 2012 03:38 • Tags: bankers, banking, business, economy, success

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“A hungry dragon was a dangerous dragon.”
― S.A. Rule, Cloak of Magic

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“Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
― W. Edwards Deming

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

tags: magic, science, technology, wonder

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“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.”
― The Economist

tags: books, literature, reading

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“There is very little in this World somebody can't make a little worse and a little cheaper.”
― David P Elliot

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“Martin Carthy on English folk music: "I'm not interested in heritage - this stuff is alive.”
― English Folk musician Martin Carthy

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message 7: by Julie

Aug 12, 2018 03:29AM

Hi Sue, My latest novel "A Bend In the Lane" is out and I wonder if you would like a copy, just to see if I've improved!
I can send a paperback copy if you give me an address as it isn't an ebook. ( Most of my readers haven't got computers or kindles)
Also, note the UK Southern Book show is in Worthing in October if you are interested. They have a website.
Best Wishes, Julie.
( also on twitter as folkonthedowns)

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message 6: by Julie

Apr 28, 2016 07:09AM

Hi Sue, Trying to find retired schoolteachers who might enjoy a romance set in the 1960's as I have written 'A Lesson for the Teacher' in a different style with a different readership in mind.
Now all I have to do is find them!

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message 5: by Julie

Sep 16, 2015 04:19AM

Hi Sue, I'm also not writing a novel at the moment, although I am trying to have a go at some competitions.
My 'romance' began to bore me so I guess it would bore readers, too. I found that once I had written a synopsis
I lost interest in the story. I like my books to develop organically! I only printed 100 copies of 'Never Pretend' and half of them are sold already.I'm still finding my way round Goodreads. www.juliecround.com

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message 4: by Jackie

Jul 10, 2010 12:36PM

I already have it on my real books shelf. I'll be getting to it very soon.

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message 3: by William

Feb 19, 2009 01:17PM