Author's Official Booksite PINKIE PARANYA

Now you can order the Women of the Northland series and two other Paranya books right here!

To order autographed copies of Raven Woman, Tiana, Gift of the Moon, Herr Schnoodle & McBee, or Treasure of the Amazon, please email me at paranya@tds.net with your request, and I will send you an autographed copy of the book(s) along with laminated bookmarks and a special little memento.

You will also receive my invoice, which you can pay with check or money order. Each book is priced below the cover price of $19.95.

I am offering Raven Woman and Tiana, Gift of the Moon for $13.00 each, which includes shipping to anywhere in the United States. Herr Schnoodle & McBee and Treasure of the Amazon are each priced at $12.00, including shipping. (Special orders are also possible — just ask!)

 

Poem Set Three

We’ve added a new set of Pinkie’s poems. Click here to go straight to the third batch.

Pinkie’s Poetry is featured on this website

What’s a good way to get a glimpse into the inner soul of a writer? One way is to read and consider their poetry. This is an approach that can be quite different from — but nevertheless complements — the reading of the author’s books. Now, readers can finally do both! Here is the first set of Pinkie Paranya poems we provided.

 

Paranya is spotlighted author at Mystery Lovers Corner!

Paranya’s mystery novel, Herr Schnoodle & McBee, is featured over at the Mystery Lovers Corner website. Check it out by clicking here.

 

A Yuma Sun photographer caught a glimpse of Pinkie with her new release, One... Two... Buckle My Shoe, in downtown Yuma. Here’s the photo.

 

Yuma Potpourri Artists . . .

. . . has recently added Pinkie to their website.

Book Bytes . . .

. . . features Herr Schnoodle over here!

Pinkie Paranya & her booksHere we have a photo of Pinkie Paranya with some of her books displayed.

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Pinkie attended at Book Fair in Sierra Vista. Here’s a link to the online article.

 

 

“Page one pulls you into the story, and you don’t want out, even when it ends.”

— New Zealand Vacation Book Review

 

 

“In the course of wearing the many hats... as publishers, editors, ‘marketeers’... we get to meet a variety of incredibly interesting and talented people. One of these is Pinkie Paranya, author of ‘Raven Woman’ . . .”

— Southwest Blend Magazine

 

 

“Paranya evokes the reader’s empathy and admiration for this incredible young woman. In addition to relating an extraordinary adventure, the highly talented author makes it easy for us to care about what happens to Tiana and the people she loves.”

— Reel Talk Movie Reviews

 

 

“Pinkie Paranya has written a vivid descriptive book about the strength and toughness and tenderness and zest for life and survival of the first couple generations of women in the early days before Alaska was Alaska.”

— New Zealand Vacation Book Review

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Pinkie ParanyaPinkie Paranya (who also writes under the name, P. K. Paranya) is an established writer, with 12 novels, more than 50 poems, and multiple gardening articles to her credit.

She is also an artist whose paintings and photographs have been shown in several galleries, a master gardener, and an advocate for children and animals.

Her volunteer work has included . . .

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Sample Chapters

We have a special treat for those anxiously awaiting the next book, like a small taste from the kitchen before a gourmet meal, and an especially tasty sample for those whose appetite has yet to be whetted by a Pinkie Paranya book. Dig in! Enjoy! Bon Appétit!

Read sample chapters.

 

Attention Reading Groups

I am offering a free advance copy to any interested reading group moderator.  If the group chooses my book, I will send laminated bookmarks and an autographed bookplate for the readers. Interested? Email me at paranya@tds.net.

 

Free Gift from the Author

If you send an email saying where you bought a Pinkie Paranya book, along with your mailing address, I will gladly send you an autographed bookplate and laminated bookmark. It’s my way of saying “thank you”.

Question Feather

Click here to learn about this traditional tool of the Northern Native American tribes.

Coming out later this year

The road they traveled on meandered through the mountains and down into valleys filled with lush, green ferns. When they finally arrived, she found herself wishing they were still whizzing along the highway. It had been so warm and comfortable. 

Once they’d finished hauling stuff out of the vehicle and set up their tents, they sat around the campfire. “We’ll just have a bite of something cold ’n’ turn in early.  Tomorrow Tim ’n’ I will catch a bucket-load of fish . . .

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To be Published in Print by The Wild Rose Press, October 2008

Herr Schnoodle & McBee

eBooks are available here.

Her grandmother’s will compelled Danielle and Sebastian Beaumont to forge a marriage of convenience. Distrustful of one another, they could not deny the passion that flared beneath their marital façade. They could not remain enemies when a stranger threatened to take everything away.

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Paranormal suspense, published by Treble Heart Books

One... Two... Buckle My Shoe

PDF and HTML eBooks are available just a click away!

A relentless predator drops out of nowhere, a killing machine, a parent’s worst nightmare come true. 

In One... Two... Buckle My Shoe, you’re about to meet THE BERNIES . . .

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Herr Schnoodle & McBee

Herr Schnoodle & McBee is a different sort of mystery novel. Alexander McBee is a bumbling private eye whose career is going nowhere until he rescues an ugly mutt — half schnauzer, half poodle — who starts solving cases for McBee. With a mix of humor, pathos, luck and pluck, McBee and the schnoodle roam the streets of NYC helping people and solving mysteries . . .

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Treasure of the Amazon

Combine a sensually exotic, unpredictable setting, a wealthy businessman posing as an adventurous pilot down on his luck, a heroine searching for her roots, and a hidden fortune — and you have Treasure of the Amazon.

Marisa Elliott is a calm, conservative teacher of learning disabled children. For as long as she can remember her father, professor of history . . .

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Raven Woman

These are the adventures of  Raven Woman, the first book in the award-winning Women of the Northland series about the lives of women in the ancient arctic.

A young Inuit child watches her family drown when she is shipwrecked among strangers, and Umiak’s life changes forever. Alone, and perceived by her rescuers as a dangerous ilitkosiq, a troublemaker, Umiak bravely prepares to face a new world that must include defeating the angakuk, the shaman whose slave she becomes . . .

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Tiana, Gift of the Moon

Second in the award-winning Women of the Northland series, Tiana, Gift of the Moon continues the saga of the Raven Women — descendants of the Raven Mother — shamen who brave the harsh climate and the primitive nature of the earliest people of North America . . .

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Pinkie Paranya Books

They are sold in many places, both online and in book stores. Click below to find out some of your options for buying these great books.

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