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 […]
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Ugly or Beautiful: In the Eye of the Beholder
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, what about ugliness? How do we define ugly? What repulses us? And why? I posed these questions at Visionary Fiction Alliance in a review of Dean Koontz’s latest release, Innocence, in which little by little, stepby step, Koontz immerses us in ugly, until we are in ugly’s head.
Between Now and Forever Available in Print – Happy Thanksgiving!
Note to reader: Between Now and Forever is now listed as BOOK FOUR in my “Enter the Between” fiction series. My goal was to have Between Now and Forever, the first book in my Enter the Between series, available in PRINT before Thanksgiving. Talk about calling it close. It became available in print this evening. It’s also […]
Visionary Novel Between Now and Forever
Finally, the day has arrived. My visionary novel, Between Now and Forever, the first in the Enter the Between series, is published. It’s only $5.99, about the same price as a flavored coffee at Starbucks. In fact, why not grab your drink of choice and settle down with Marjorie Veil, my protagonist, in her journey through The […]
Twilight Zone to Visionary Fiction
My protagonist, Marjorie Veil Sunwalker gives her input, and then, well, I share a bit about my fascination with fairy tales as a child and The Twilight Zone as a teen. In my adult life, well…there’s Dean Koontz, James Long, and Joanne Harris, for starters.
Elk Grove Citizen’s Lifestyle
The following article about how my family came to California from Holland and settled in Elk Grove was published on August 1, 2013 in Elk Grove Citizen’s Lifestyle section by Elizabeth Pinkerton. Elk Grove’s Multicultural Festival is Aug. 24 and to celebrate our diversity, today’s focus is on another Supergrad, Margaret van Steyn Duarte (Class of ‘67). […]
