This week I’d like to welcome author Gigi Sedlmayer, author of the TALON series.
You can find her books on Amazon along with author updates.

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TALON, COME FLY WITH ME (Book 1)

Back in her bedroom, she thought the world was wonderful. And what adventures would she have with Talon? she wondered. In the last seconds before she fell asleep, she murmured, ‘I always thought there must be more to life than to only eat, play, learn, sleep and work … and to grow – or not grow, as it is with me.’

Aikon was listening. ‘Yes, there is,’ he whispered, nodding. ‘You
forgot fun – to have fun as you will have now with Talon. That is life.’

Yes, that is life, and also another story.

 

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Matica describes herself, speaking of her own experience:

My name is Matica and I am a special needs child with a growth disability. I am stuck in the body of a two-year-old, even though I am ten years old when my story begins in the first book of the Talon series, TALON, COME FLY WITH ME. Because of that disability, (I am saying ‘that’ disability, not ‘my’ disability because it’s a thing that happened to me, nothing more and because I am not accepting it as something bad. I can say that now after I learned to cope with it.) I was rejected by the local Indians as they couldn’t understand that that condition is not a sickness and so it can’t be really cured. It’s just a disorder of my body. But I never gave up on life and so I had lots of adventures roaming around the plateau where we live, with my mother’s blessings. But after I made friends with my condors I named Tamo and Tima, everything changed. It changed for the good. I was finally loved. And I am the hero and I embrace my problem. In better words: I had embraced my problem before I made friends with my condors Tamo and Tima. I held onto it and I felt sorry for myself and cried a lot, wanting to run away or something worse. But did it help me? Did it become better? Did I grow taller? No, nothing of that helped me. I didn’t have those questions when I was still in my sorrow, but all these questions came to me later, after I was loved and was cherished. One day I looked up into the sky and saw the majestic condors flying in the air. Here and now, I made up my mind. I wanted to become friends with them. I believed if I could achieve that, all my sorrow and rejection would be over. And true enough, it was over. I was loved. I even became famous. And so, if you are in a situation, with whatever your problem is, find something you could rely on and stick to it, love that and do with that what you were meant to do. And I never run from conflicts.

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Other books in the series:

Talon, On the Wing (Book 2)
With near disasters, challenged Matica’s journey and adventure begins. Will she be accepted by the local Indians? Will love come to her too?

Talon, Flight for Life (Book 3)
Walking to a nearby city, disaster strikes with near death experience. Will the condors come and rescue them? Will her love grow?

Talon, Connected (Book 4)
Revelation strikes Matica. Will she be able to cope with these life-changing disclosures? And in the midst of this revelation, the poachers are coming back. They want to kill the condors, Talon.

Talon, Encounter (Book 5)
It is war. The poachers have guns and shoot at the condors. Will they survive? Will the poachers succeed and kill the condors or will the condors and the Indian with Matica succeed?

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Author Bio: JGisela (Gigi) Sedlmayer was born on 19 May 1944 in Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin in Germany.
Her family escaped to the West just before the infamous wall went up. They moved around in Germany until finally settling in Munich where Gigi studied architectural drafting and met Albert in 1965, marrying in December 1967. She worked as a civil draftsperson in various private consultancies in Munich.
Since her uncle was a writer, she tried to write short animal stories herself. Nothing further came of it, but she developed a love for the written word and started to consume books.
In May 1975, Gigi and her husband moved to New Zealand. Because of language challenges, she started a handicraft business. As a specialty, she made colourful parrots of which she sold thousands in a few years.

In 1988, they decided to adopt and became adoptive parents of twin girls the year after. They lived in New Zealand for eighteen years and moved to Australia in September 1992.
Two years later Gigi was diagnosed with cancer. After operations and radiation, she withdrew, thinking that she would probably soon be dead, like her friend who died of cancer, but her two little girls gave her the courage to keep going. After a few years, still among the living, her brain started to work again, so she thought, ‘Get a grip on yourself and do something good with your life’.

She remembered the time she wrote short stories and got inspired again, seeing her husband Albert writing the story of their adoption. Her English became increasingly better so she pressed on to develop her creative writing.

Albert taught her how to use a computer and she wrote many short stories. She entered them in competitions and often got very good reports back, which gave her confidence to go on writing. One day the idea for the TALON series came to her and she spent the next several years bringing the story and the characters to life.

She now loves writing and spends most of her time at the computer, developing new story lines. She also loves traveling, 4×4 touring, swimming, gardening, handcrafting, reading, fossicking and enjoys good adventure DVD’s or going to the movies.