SHARON Manssen

A fantasy fan since being read 'The Hobbit' by her father at the fireside at the age of six, she has been an avid bookworm her entire life. When the idea for her current trilogy popped into her head, there was never any doubt that it would be in the fantasy genre. Unfortunately, real life gets in the way, and writing has to fit around her full-time job at a global engineering consultancy and family life (husband and two young adult children). It took ten years to pen her first book, Medar, which was a finalist for the Tom Fitzgibbon Award in 2015 and was published in 2017. Her second book, Tyrelia was a finalist in the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards - Young Adult Fiction category. Her third book, Golden City, was released in 2021.


Genre:

  • Fantasy
  • Young Adult

Skills:

  • Manuscript Assessment
  • Mentoring
  • Novelist
  • Public Speaking
  • Readings

Branch:

Hamilton

Location:

Tauranga

Publications:


Medar: Realm Trilogy Book One

Freya is half blind, poor, and lives in land-locked Medar: an unlikely heroine. So when she finds a mysterious tablet telling her about a beautiful land beyond the Wall free from the evil Master, she doesn't think anybody will believe her.

 

The same day, her family learns they have been selected to live in the Golden City, ruled over by the Master. But instead of entering the City with her family, Freya finds herself condemned to death by the Guards. At the last minute, Freya is rescued by an invisible Watcher.

 

What follows is an incredible journey, pursued by Guards, that takes Freya to the very edge of the only world she has ever known. Will she unlock the clues hidden in the tablet? The key to the long lost path to Tyrelia - and freedom - is in her hands.

Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Ark House Press
ISBN: 9780648084594
RRP: $24
Website: https://srmanssen.com

Tyrelia: Realm Trilogy Book Two

She escaped death.

She unlocked the mystery of the Tablet.

She discovered the long-lost bridge across the chasm.

She passed through the Wall.

But fourteen-year-old Freya's biggest challenge is yet to come: all alone, she must enter Tyrelia, following new clues that lead her on a new quest deep into Tyrelia. Her family is trapped in the Golden City, torn between trying to escape and being seduced by the City. With all communication lost, will Freya find the Ancient before it’s too late?

“Tyrelia is the perfect sequel we’ve all been waiting for.” Abbie, beta reader.

Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Manssen Publishing House
ISBN: 9780473468507
RRP: $24
Website: www.srmanssen.com

Golden City: Realm Trilogy Book Three

AN ANCIENT PROPHECY

MYSTICAL ARMOUR

ONE GIRL

Poor and blind in one eye, 14-year-old Freya is an unlikely heroine. But she has outwitted the evil Master twice already. Now training to become an Adelphi, she learns that she has been chosen to receive the Armour of Tyrelia. Her courage and resilience are tested to the limit as she navigates the consequences of her choices. CAN SHE SECURE ALL THE PIECES OF THE ARMOUR in time to rescue her family and everyone else trapped in the Golden City?

Publication date: November 2020
Publisher: Manssen Publishing House
ISBN: 9780473544003
RRP: $24
Website: www.srmanssen.com

The Tablet

Fourteen-year-old Aleryck is good with a slingshot and at herding goats, but not much else. When the mysterious voice of ‘The Ancient’ tasks him with inscribing words of freedom on a magical tablet, he starts to believe he is important … more important even than his elder brothers. Then the Ancient asks Aleryck to hide the tablet in Medar--beyond the perilous Chasm--for a future generation, forcing Aleryck to reluctantly seek the help of his jealous siblings.

Left for dead in the treacherous Wastelands when his brother, Taran, steals the tablet, it soon becomes a race against time to recover the tablet or it will be lost forever.

If Aleryck and Taran can't settle their differences and learn to work together to fulfil the task, the people of Medar will be enslaved for all eternity.

Publication date: March 2023
Publisher: Upside-down Publishing
ISBN: 9781738589029
RRP: $24
Website: www.srmanssen.com