Rebecca Beattie grew up on Dartmoor, which is a remote part of England. This has had a profound effect on her writing and other creative interests. Her first novel "The Lychway" is set on Dartmoor and is interwoven with the folklore and the landscape of that sacred place.Her second novel, "Somewhere She is There" follows the journey of a woman learning to deal with the grief of losing her mother to cancer, while her third book, "The Softness of Water" is a selection of short stories and fairy tales based on the wisdom of the Tao te Ching.Rebecca's fourth book will be published by Moon Books on 31st July 2015 and is called "Nature Mystics: The Literary Gateway to Modern Paganism". Nature Mystics traces the lives and work of ten writers who contributed to the cultural environment that allowed Modern Paganism to develop and flourish throughout the twentieth century. John Keats, Mary Webb, Thomas Hardy, Sylvia Townsend Warner, D.H. Lawrence, Elizabeth von Arnim, W.B. Yeats, Mary Butts, J.R.R. Tolkien and E. Nesbit.Rebecca also keeps a blog at www.rebeccabeattie.co.ukRebecca lives in London and is currently researching Mary Webb for a PhD in English Literature.To keep up to date with news and events, please join the mailing list at www.rebeccabeattie.co.uk