In 1960, Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon from New York, published a book on self-image psychology and goal visualization called Psycho Cybernetics. In it, he introduced the analogy of the brain as a cybernetic “servo-mechanism”, like a computer designed to find a path to the target it is programmed with. Maltz suggests that you… 1. […]
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Narrating an Audiobook is Harder than You Think
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Cows are Tough Critics
I brought BETWEEN NOW AND FOREVER, book four of my “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series, to my backyard friends for their input. After all, the story excerpt I planned to share concerned them–their moos to be exact. Happy cows are quiet cows as this video demonstrates. But, oh my, when their moos get loud […]