The Woking Writers’ Collective is pleased to welcome Marisa Noelle to the blog. Marisa, who is based in Woking, is the writer of middle-grade and young adult novels in the genres of science-fiction, fantasy, horror and mental health.
With dual citizenship, Marisa has lived on both sides of the Atlantic and uses settings in both the USA and UK as inspiration for her novels. When she’s not writing or reading or watching movies, she enjoys swimming. Ocean, lake, or pool, she’s not fussy, as long as she can pretend she’s a mermaid.
Despite being an avid bookworm from the time she could hold a book, being an author was a bit of a surprise as she was a bit of a science geek at school. She lives in Woking, in the UK, with her husband and three children. She is a mentor for the Write Mentor program that helps aspiring MG and YA authors.
Her latest published
title is The Unraveling of Luna Forester…
When
his best friend Luna is found catatonic after a devastating house fire, Matthew
begins to fall apart.
“Take care of them, Matthew.” – “Always.”
“Protect my secret.” – “Of course.”
That’s
the promise he made to her only three nights ago. A solemn vow to protect their
large found family of humans and supernatural creatures alike.
Fated
to love her for the rest of his life, and unwilling to break his solemn vow,
Matthew knows the only person who can help Luna is her grandmother. Through the
woods they must go, just like a fairytale. But the forest is filled with deadly
peril: poisonous black moss, chimeras, and worst of all, members of their
family who don’t want them to continue.
As they
are picked off one by one, Matthew races to get Luna to safety, all the time
doubting everything he thought was true.
Can
Matthew untangle the twisted threads of Luna’s secret before he himself
unravels?
Review from The Book Life Prize (Publisher’s Weekly): "The Unraveling of Luna Forester is an intense and inventive story with paranormal elements and psychological depth. Readers will easily engage with the well-staged narrative and welcome its plot twists."
"Writing in clipped sentences, the author immediately
creates tension and intrigue. The conversations among the many characters are
natural and drive both character development and propel the storytelling."
"Noelle integrates familiar fairy-tale and fantasy
elements while also maintaining a high level of originality and
unpredictability."
"The
author does a fine job of developing her characters and their relationships
while maintaining the degree of mystery surrounding the protagonist in the
aftermath of overwhelming loss."
Marisa’s other books: The Shadow Keepers, The Unadjusteds Trilogy (The Unadjusteds, The Rise of the Altereds, and The Reckoning), The Mermaid Chronicles – Secrets of the Deep & Quest for Atlantis, & The Unravelling of Luna Forester.
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