In 1960, Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon from New York, published a book on self-image psychology and goal visualization called Psycho Cybernetics. In it, he introduced the analogy of the brain as a cybernetic “servo-mechanism”, like a computer designed to find a path to the target it is programmed with. Maltz suggests that you… 1. […]
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Narrating an Audiobook is Harder than You Think
According to Radio Times, the very best audiobook narrators don’t just read a novel – they perform it. They inject life into a book, adding pace, emotion and tension with their voice alone, while mastering all character accents, tricky location names and often foreign languages. Emmy-nominated voice and video artist Kristen Simoes has professional training […]
Do Book Awards Matter?
In 2016, when BETWEEN WILL AND SURRENDER won first place for General Fiction in the NCPA’s 23rd Annual Book Awards, I thought sales would hit the roof. Wrong. The resulting sales more closely resembled a bleep than a leap. Same thing in 2018 when BETWEEN DARKNESS AND DAWN won two major awards and in 2019 […]
“The Between,” A Place of Breakthrough Experiences
A book titled THE CULTURAL CREATIVES devotes an entire chapter to THE BETWEEN, describing it as “the time between worldviews, values, and ways of life; a time between stories.” Though it was published twenty years ago, the book’s authors Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson could have been writing about today, a time of […]
Alzheimer’s: A Visionary Perspective
Alzheimer’s is defined as memory loss and confusion. No cure exists, but medications and management strategies may temporarily improve symptoms. As a fiction author, I ask: WHAT IF…? WHAT IF there was a new definition of Alzheimer’s and its treatment? WHAT IF we could view this terrible neurodegenerative disease in a new light, with the […]
MEDICINE WHEEL: CIRCLE OF “THE BETWEEN”
The medicine wheel is a universal symbol, and its meaning has been defined by different cultures throughout the ages based on their location, religious beliefs, and tribal practices. Medicine Wheel Directions: The basic Native American medicine wheel has four directions or compass points with different sets of energies that serve as guides to living a […]
