Spotlight: Feeling Fate by Joni Sensel

Feeling Fate: A Memoir of Love, Intuition, and Spirit
written by Joni Sensel
published by She Writes Press, 2022

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About the book – from Amazon: As her sweetheart’s body lies cooling on the living room floor, Joni Sensel—shattered but not surprised—revisits her premonition about this moment. From nearly the start of their fairy tale romance less than four years ago, she knew she would lose Tony, the man she considered to be her soul mate. He was in great health, but fate had other plans—a hard truth that visited Joni in the form of a startling vision during their second weekend together. Though she kept the premonition a secret while Tony was alive, upon his death she’s compelled to share it with his spirit in the form of a letter.

A grief memoir with a paranormal twist, Feeling Fate explores how a dark intuition magnified Sensel’s love and gratitude in the time she and Tony had together before her premonition came true. Faced with evidence of a grand design alongside her grief, she’s torn between faith and skepticism. While she’s nearly undone by the pain of her loss, she eventually discovers that a sassy imagination and the irrational insights of the heart can both defeat despair and transform her grief into meaning.

 

About the author: JONI SENSEL is the author of more than a dozen nonfiction titles for adults, five novels for young readers from Macmillan imprints, and two picture books. Her fiction titles include a Junior Library Guild selection, a Center for Children’s Books “Best Book,” a Henry Bergh Honor title, and a finalist for several other awards. Her nonfiction titles have given her a dangerous level of knowledge about industries as diverse as public power, wood products, kidney disease, Lean manufacturing, recycling, and healthcare. She balances this education by avoiding any knowledge whatsoever about professional wrestling, hit TV shows, or K-pop.

Sensel holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (2015). She previously served for four years as a co-regional advisor for one of the nation’s largest chapters of the Society of Children’s Books Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI), with more than 700 members. More recently she served as this chapter’s Creativity Liaison, among other volunteer roles.

Over the past 18 years, Sensel has taught dozens of writing workshops and seminars in locations from Alaska to Amsterdam for local, regional, and international organizations. A certified Grief Educator and First Aid Arts responder, she’s recently focused her courses and online workshops on creativity and spirituality topics.

Sensel’s adventures have taken her to the corners of 15 countries, the heights of the Cascade Mountains, the length of an Irish marathon, and the depths of love. She lives at the knees of Mt. Rainier in Washington State with a puppy whose presence in her life reflected afterlife influence.

 

 
 

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** This post first appeared on Every Free Chance Books (everyfreechance.com) on May 4, 2022.