Book anniversary

It was ten years ago that my first book "The Soul Seekers" came out with Wido publishing. I was very lucky to have them take me on--the whole process of writing, editing and publishing was amazing. They made my dream my dream come true! 'The Soul Seekers" came from a childhood of practically living inside a library--my mother ran one in our small town situated on a Main Street a lot like the one in the Andy Griffith Show. The kind of Main Street you sped through too fast and never thought about again. Personally those are my favorite towns, so of course I wanted to write the book in a similar setting in a similar feel of empty space and stories untold. The book was also born of a strange fascination with ghosts and all things spirit. At the time everyone was talking about Twilight, but I wanted to write about a girl who could see ghosts, not vampires.

What I didn't know was that the story would turn into a spyglass of today's current political division. 

The Soul Seekers was comprised of a sect of men who controlled a small town in Indiana called Springvale. These men ruled everything, including a young man with a soul so powerful they tried to steal it. Something went wrong in the ceremony, yet somehow he survived but was left invisible to the rest of the world. A veritable ghost stuck in a library--the only place he felt safe. In their prim suits and black horn-rimmed glasses, The Soul Seekers intended to claim the rest of his soul so they could defeat their own mortality. But they didn't just want his soul--they wanted everyone else's. I wanted to show how easily it was to watch the people of Springvale turn into veritable zombies under the rule of these men, including the main character's own mother, and the only thing which could save her or anyone else from the perversion, the cult, was an inner knowing of what humanity and decency looks and feels like, to understand LOVE and to be rebellious against indoctrination. 

People wondered why I wrote a silly, teenage paranormal romance, but I didn't. I wrote much more than that. 

There were things that happened to me while writing "The Soul Seekers" I still can't explain. Like the time I went to the store and a group of men JUST LIKE THE MEN IN THE BOOK came up to me and then left with no words spoken. Talk about manifestation. It was spooky . . . but also a great confirmation that I was on the right track. The universe was sending me signs to show I was in alignment. 

I'll always love "The Soul Seekers" in that sparkly, teenage Amy part of me that can never fade. If you haven't read it, or the following two books, "The Love Seekers" and "The Time Seekers," please give them a chance. If only for the fun of it. Because that's what reading should be!

Thanks for reading and much love.