Margaret Duarte

Visionary Fiction

Margaret Duarte

Making Room for Visionary Fiction on the Genre Shelf

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Visionary fiction is not metaphysical fiction. Visionary fiction is not magical realism. Visionary fiction is not religious fiction or sci-fi or fantasy. What will it take for traditional publishers to make room on the shelf for fiction that speaks the language of the soul and offers a vision of humanity as we dream it can […]

Between Now and Forever Amazon Review

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I’m so grateful for the following review of Between Now and Forever on Amazon. It seems someone (thanks Victor E. Smith) knows what I’m trying to accomplish with this novel – in addition to telling an entertaining story. Margaret Duarte’s Between Now and Forever is a fascinating creation for several reasons, of which I will take […]

Between Now and Forever, 2014 ABNA Quarter Finalist

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Between Now and Forever, the first novel in my ENTER THE BETWEEN series, is a 2014 ABNA Quarter finalist. That means my novel made it through round one of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest, where 10,000 entries were whittled down to 2,000, and round two, where 2,000 entries were whittled even further to 500.

Synchronicity, Meaningful Coincidences

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Visionary fiction opened a new world of paying attention. I needed to receive and transmit information from the unconscious, stuff hidden below the tip of the iceberg that doesn’t surface unless the observer is in a receptive state.

Genre Busters

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I wrote a post at Visionary Fiction Alliance called Promoting Visionary Fiction, A Quixotic Quest?  about genre busters Katy Perry, Kacey Musgraves, and two re-united Beatles, who proved the value of dark horses, following one’s arrow, and attempting something new. These timely examples of genre busters are mind-blowing reminders that the writing and promotion of visionary fiction, like singing, is […]