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 […]
For Writers
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 […]
Transpersonal Psychology and Visionary Fiction; their time has come
Transpersonal Psychology and Visionary Fiction help us realize that we are spiritual beings in physical bodies and our consciousness exists on more than one level, making it easier for us to reach self-actualization and self-fulfillment.
Visionary Fiction Interview with Author Margaret Duarte & Host Brad Swift
Join me, friends and book lovers, in my first ever video interview, where I share why it’s a great time to introduce yourself to visionary fiction. Our power and wisdom lie on our willingness to look at the world through different eyes.
