Three women; three stories on life, lessons and love. Three journeys towards the belonging place; three journeys back to self.

Liliana Flint-Smith is starting out on her own. Leaving a dysfunctional family behind her and with nothing but a university degree in librarianship, Liliana moves to a remote village in the country. Different from everyone else in the town, she must find her place in a society that doesn’t take kindly to strangers. With the help of an old woman who lives in the flat next to her, Liliana begins to find herself and discovers it was never about her changing, but about learning to be herself.

Estelle Wainwright is successful. She’s burning up the career ladder and has just made editor at a national women’s magazine. Her husband Joel is also carving out his niche as an architect and, together with son Corey, is the picture of success. Or are they? Journey with Estelle as she fights the tension within herself: work and home, career and husband, businesswoman and woman, and navigates through a crisis that will test the decisions she has made about how she lives her life.

Jill Bridges is struggling to stay afloat. With the loss of her husband and her children busy with their own lives, she’s facing the prospect of a nursing home. But it’s her independence that makes her life worth living and she’ll be damned if she’ll bow to society’s plans for her. With a fierce will, Jill must find a way to triumph over old age and emerge into a life that still holds meaning.

What genre is this?
Womens Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Commercial Fiction.

Tell us about your main characters.
Belonging Places contains 3 distinct stories about a young woman, Liliana, a career woman and mother, Estelle, and an widower Jill. All three women are at different stages of their lives but they have one thing in common: they are all on journeys and all facing changes in their lives. The answers they find on their personal journeys will determine how and with whom they live their lives.

All the women in my book face situations and challenges women world over will relate to.

Which of the three do you most relate to?
I certainly have a lot in common with Estelle Wainwright. She is a busy working mum who is juggling home and career. It’s not always easy.

No? Tell us about your life.
My day job title is Public Relations Manager & Editor. I work for a multi media and events company and edit two of their publications, am the senior feature writer for another, and handle all their public relations, marketing and communications projects.

I’ve been writing creatively in my spare time for about 20 years now but only recently got serious about in 2012 with Shadowscape.

Shadowscape? Tell us about that.
I also write Young Adult fantasy/paranormal fiction. Shadowscape and Dawn of the Shadowcasters are the first two books in the Stevie Vegas Chronicles series.

Do you have a website where we can keep up with your work?
http://maryannwestonbooks.weebly.com.

How can we follow you on Twitter and/or Facebook?
@MaryannWeston
https://www.facebook.com/shadowscape.stevievegas.

What’s next?
I am working on a horror anthology Evil Imminent.

How easily do new storylines come to you? If we give you four random words – Man, Woman, Mexico, Future – can you give us a brief storyline?
Easily. I write through intuition and imagination.

The couple stood on the rocky outcrop. The Mexican landscape no better than a moonscape in parts. They trained their cameras to the night sky. There it was again, round, silver and gleaming. This was no star. This was an alien ship and they would have the first photos to prove it. Their future would be assured once they uploaded them. Behind them a twig snapped and they were just quick enough to see the man in the dark suit pull out a gun…