Margaret Duarte

Visionary Fiction

visionary fiction

Victory for Visionary Fiction

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Thanks to Victor E. Smith at Visionary Fiction Alliance, I can now direct all readers to Wikipedia when they ask, “What is Visionary Fiction?” Exciting news for all Visionary Fiction authors, readers and lurkers: As of August 2014 a entry entitled “Visionary fiction” has been published on Wikipedia. This feat of sweat and scholarship was […]

DIVERGENT and Visionary Fiction, Factions Apart

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Violence aside, I would gladly welcome the dystopian sci-fi novel Divergent into the visionary fiction “faction.” Veronica Roth deserves her New York Times Bestselling Author status. She deserves her book’s 13,236 Amazon reviews (9,524 of which are five stars). She deserves her book sales of over eleven million. All these accolades are merited because Divergent […]

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 […]

Hal Zina Bennett and The Puzzle of Visionary Fiction

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I was fortunate to be able to discuss the genre of visionary fiction with Hal Zina Bennett, the multi talented author and teacher who inspired me way back in 2002 to follow my gut and call my writing what it is. Follow this link for part one of our interchange at Visionary Fiction Alliance, my second home. […]