the whale’s last song available for order

the whale’s last song available for order

the whale’s last song available for order

the whale’s last song available for order

the whale’s last song available for order

the whale’s last song available for order

the whale’s last song available for order

the whale’s last song available for order

the whale’s last song available for order

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Author, Mentor, Ocean Swimmer.

‘To fix the world, humans simply need to remember their place in it.’ – The Whale’s Last Song

I cannot wait to share my new book with you:

The Whale’s
Last Song

As a terrible pandemic rages through a medieval hamlet, a young girl sets off in search of a cure for her pox-infected sister. Meanwhile, out in the depths of the ocean, a whale is returning to the place he was born to exhale his last breath. A timeless allegory about love and sacrifice, The Whale’s Last Song is also a love song to the natural world.

Out October 2024

Once upon a time, a young girl ventured into a dark forest, looking for a cure for her much-loved elder sister.
Once upon a time, a young girl ventured into a dark forest, looking for a cure for her much-loved elder sister.
Once upon a time, a young girl ventured into a dark forest, looking for a cure for her much-loved elder sister.

I’ve been writing stories since I was six years old...

My 15th book, The Whale’s Last Song came from the grief of losing my mother in 2021, like a cry from somewhere deep inside me. Each year, I run writing retreats and mentor a handful of writers. In 2017, I created Joanne Fedler Media, my own publishing company to publish books by the authors I mentor.

I have a master’s degree in law from Yale and ran a legal advocacy centre to end violence against women in South Africa. I am a devoted ocean swimmer and support many organisations working to protect marine life and ecosystems.

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What life has taught me

Life is a beautiful infliction
framed by time, uncertain, fragile and phenomenal.
Stories tether us to life when all the body wants to do is fall.
They are the trail of pebbles that leads us from the dark forest, home.
They are the tides that bring us safely back to shore.
I have always been slow dancing with words
holding them against my horny bones
while everything inside me swoons YES!
and DON’T STOP and more
my pen scratching the page
my heart clattering in my chest
like someone falling beyond herself
already claimed
lost, too late,
in love.

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Learn to write with me

No matter where you are in your writing journey,
I have created an online course for you.

7 Day Free Writing Challenge

If you’ve always wanted to write but don’t know where or how to begin, start here. Over 7 days I share 7 writing tips and exercise which can be done in a few minutes, to build your confidence and enjoyment of writing as a daily ritual.

Just A Touch

Every week for 24 weeks, you receive an unusual writing exercise to encourage you to explore your creativity in unexpected ways. This course helps you stay connected to your writing over 6 months to create momentum and continuity.

7 Tricks to Writing Your Story

You want to write your story, but where do you start? How do you go about it? How do you make it interesting so others will want to read it?

Author Awakening Adventure

You’ve got a book in you, but don’t know how to get it out. You need expert guidance and mentoring on the craft. You need to find your unique writing voice. But more than that, you need to believe you’ve got it in you to become an author.

Write Your First Draft Masterclass

You’ve got a whole lot of story in you, but it’s a tangled mess. You need a hand-hold, a game plan and a cheer squad to get to your first draft.

Writing as Medicine for the Soul

This course is only available on the Insight Timer app. It consists of 30 lessons which explore how writing can soothe and treat ailments of the soul while imparting practical writing tools.

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The act of writing engenders the story. The more we write, the more we can write.
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If you do nothing else with your life, find one thing that you love. Then give yourself over to it, again and again, each time with greater curiosity, courage and commitment, until you become the self that was made from loving that thing.

JOANNE FEDLER

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I swim in the waters and live, write and love on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. I am grateful to the traditional custodians for the abundance of these blessings and acknowledge and pay my deepest respects to their Elders past and present.

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