I believe it is my job as a fiction writer to condense research of complex subjects into understandable language and then play it out in story. My work bridges science and spirituality with paranormal and supernatural underpinnings and contemplative messaging that aims toward a kinder, wiser, more peaceful world. Press Release October 2020 Elk Grove […]
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My take on the Indie Author Project
It took three months for me to write BETWEEN WILL AND SURRENDER, the first book in my “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it took fourteen years to transform it from a first draft into an art form. Fourteen years of studying and practicing the craft […]
Dire Plight of the Western Monarch Butterfly
In 2003, when I started writing book three of my “Enter the Between” fiction series, I knew the Monarch Butterfly would play a major role in the story: as part of the natural setting of Pacific Grove (home to my story and to the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary) and as the symbolic representation of transformation and […]
Esselen People are not Extinct
Until I started research for my novel series, I knew little about Native Americans other than what I’d seen on TV. You know, half-naked savages, mostly Navajo and Apache, screaming Ayyyyaaaayayaaaaa as they get shot off their horses by white guys. At History.com , I was surprised to discover that when European adventurers arrived in the Americas […]
Reading Regularly Can Improve Your Health
Did you get this month’s issue of Costco Connection in the mail (It really has some great articles)? If you did, check out “Reading for Life” in the For Your Health section. It confirms what I’ve believed for a long time: “Reading regularly can help you live longer and better.” Yes, reading regularly for 30 minutes a […]
Entering the Pathway to Self
Bam! Life throws you a slider. What do you do? Criticize? Suffer through it? Despair? Or do you take a different route by finding meaning in the experience, considering it a transpersonal moment, a pathway to self? “Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.” ~Eckhart Tolle The Pathway […]
