My second novel, Back to Salem will be back in print next month, and much like one of the themes in the book, reincarnation, the tale is getting a chance at new life. This paranormal mystery tackles topics like the Salem witch trials, past lives, karma, out-of-body experiences (obe) and psychic abilities, including precognition.
Precognition is the ability to psychically tune into the future. In this suspense thriller the protagonist is a precognitive novelist, only her precognition reveals itself to her much like it did in my own life.
What if you wrote a novel and all of a sudden you started seeing echoes of the book in your own life? This happened to me, only my story is not as exciting as my character’s narrative. In Back to Salem, Jessie, writes a murder mystery and finds that her life starts mimicking the plot of her bestselling book, including a murder.
While writing my first novel, Façades, I noticed that I’d write about a certain circumstance and oddly the same situation emerged in my life, or the life of someone I loved. It was the little things that caught my eye initially, and it happened again, and again. At first, I thought it was coincidence, but there is no such thing as a coincidence. I wondered if it was the law of attraction at work. ‘Perhaps somehow my thoughts about my story had manifested similar circumstances in my life,’ I pondered. But the more I researched this phenomenon, I realized it was more likely that somehow future events found their way into my subconscious, and unknowingly made their way into my manuscript. Some of my epiphanies are shared within my upcoming book, Lifesigns.
Over the years I’ve accepted that we all have these abilities to tune into life on a different level, and it took me a book or two to understand how future events in my life played out in my stories. I remember when I first realized what was happening, I thought it’d be better to be clairvoyant and have visions to “see” what was coming, rather than finding hints at what was coming in my life through my work of fiction.
Back to Salem has always been a special story to me and I’m thrilled it has returned from the grave with another chance at life. The Bella Books version, to be released in February 14 has a slight, yet significant variation from the original published by The Haworth Press. The difference being has to do with redemption, after all new lifetimes are about second chances, and the opportunity to do things right.
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