Carla Atherton
Life Coach, Editor, and Writer in Saskatchewan, Canada
Carla Atherton (Carla Maria Atherton), MA, author of the Veil’s Edge literary fantasy series, is a Writer and Developmental Editor, StoryWeaver, Poet, Workshop Facilitator, Compulsive Creator, Deep Wellness and Creativity Coach, Dream Teacher, Recording Artist, and Experiential Healing Facilitator.
She holds a Masters in English Literature and various health coaching designations (from functional to transformational to cosmological), and is also the Founder and former Director of the Healthy Family Formula and the HECT Practitioner Training Academy, Host and Producer of the Children’s Health Summits 1, 2, 3, and 4, Author of Family Health Revolution, Mountains Rise from Earthquakes Writing Experience, Your Unique Genius Writing Experience, and Your Story Matters Writing Experience Facilitator (since 1998), Co-founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the now laid to rest CahootsMagazine, Host of Your Health Revolution Podcast, Your Unique Genius Podcast, and Writing from the Edge of the Veil Podcast, Yoga/Movement/Mind/Body Facilitator, and Deep Wellness Advocate.
Carla has 3 grown children, a husband/BeLoved, and lots of cats, and writes/reads/creates/hibernates from a home office in the Canadian prairies.
Instagram: @coachcarlaatherton
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@carlaatherton
Moving beyond her career in academics, functional and holistic health, and chronic illness resolution, Carla Atherton has come full circle, returning Home to her roots laid deep in creativity, writing/poetry/authorship, music, and artistic expression.
More About Carla Atherton’s Current Work:
Veil’s Edge Fantasy Series:
In the Veil’s Edge epic/high fantasy/fantastical/magical realism series of 7 books (each released in 2 parts), Carla Maria Atherton weaves together everything from ancient and mystic wisdom, cosmology, the internal sciences, magick, star lore, dreamplay, and mythology with the social, political, personal, and relational, to reflect and reimagine our heartbreakingly beautiful, our terrifyingly lovely world, not built on limited expectations, but the possibilities—the possibilities for both the stories we tell and the stories we live.
With the intricate, detailed world building and epic adventure similar to Brandon Sanderson and JRR Tolkien, the plot twists and deep relationship explored by writers such as Sarah J Mass, and the social questions raised by essayists and philosophical thinkers such as George Orwell, the Veil's Edge series delivers on its promise, its deepest desire, to become a precious and celebrated edition to the literary canon for lovers of both classic and modern fantasy, both the literary and the transformative, both an epic adventure and a space for reflection. It is the culmination of Carla Atherton’s life work, a weaving of the tapestry of Story that we both live and imagine (and perhaps both), a connection point between the characters, the writer, and the reader that opens the mind and fills the heart.
Felt through the HeArts, seen through the eyes, and told through the voices of The Lovers, The Poets, The Dreamers, The TimeBenders, The Alchemists, and The Artists, the books take readers on a wild and inspired celebration of humanity, possibility, passion, and purpose. They will leave you laughing, dancing, crying, singing, and utterly transformed
Veil's Edge is not simply a tragedy, an epic adventure, a comedy, a happy ending, or a cautionary tale. It is all of it, and so much more. It is our story—the ultimate, the quintessential, Story of Life, of Love.
Instagram: @veilsedgebooks
Vesica Music:
Inspired by a wide variety of styles including (but not restricted to) soul, jazz, blues, hip hop, pop, rock, singer-songwriter, traditional, ballad, dance, lyrical, classical, classical cross-over, transformational, both acoustic and electronic, Carla Atherton also is playing in the field of music acting as composer, producer, lyricist, vocalist, recording artist, and musician under the pseudonym Vesica—the HeArt space we share.
Instagram: @music_in_vesica