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Update! The free ecopy of Tuesday’s Child, by random decision, goes to Donnas. Expect an email shortly. Thank you everyone who stopped by and commented!
Do you remember the awesome Brava Writing With The Stars Contest? Well, my mentee from that contest–the very talented Dale Mayer, is my guest today. I loved reading Dale’s book, TUESDAY’S CHILD, and she’s here to share some exciting news about her story. Dale, it’s a pleasure to have you with us!
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Hi Everyone!
Thanks so much Cynthia for inviting me here today. I’m delighted to be back and to be giving away a free ecopy of my debut novel.
Tuesday’s Child has been the manuscript close to my heart for a long time. It’s in the middle of a series (like how inconvenient is that?), called Psychic Visions, and was a main contender in the Kensington Brava/RT times contest last year (on through the New Year). The contest is also where I was lucky enough to meet Cynthia! She’s been a great mentor, supporter and dare I say friend. Both of us blog at Magical Musings on a regular basis.
These characters are close to my heart and so is the premise behind them. I’ve always been fascinated by the metaphysical world. I’ve had some incredible personal experiences and spent hours lost in fascinating research on psychic phenomenon.
What she doesn’t want…is exactly what he needs.
Shunned and ridiculed all her life for something she can’t control, Samantha Blair hides her psychic abilities and lives on the fringes of society. Against her will, however, she’s tapped into a killer—or rather, his victims. Each woman’s murder, blow-by-blow, ravages her mind until their death releases her back to her body. Sam knows she must go to the authorities, but will the rugged, no-nonsense detective in charge of tracking down the killer believe her?
Detective Brandt Sutherland only trusts hard evidence, yet Sam’s visions offer clues he needs to catch a killer. The more he learns about her incredible abilities, however, the clearer it becomes that Sam’s visions have put her in the killer’s line of fire. Now Brandt must save her from something he cannot see or understand…and risk losing his heart in the process.
As danger and desire collide, passion raises the stakes in a game Sam and Brandt don’t dare lose.
I do enjoy working in Photoshop but like many writers, my days are full and the learning curve from amateur to professional is steep. Thank heavens for another friend of mine and her cover artist skills extraordinaire – Laura Morrigan.
Tuesday’s Child is available at Amazon.com now. The print version will be available in August! Book 2 of Psychic Visions, Hide’n Go Seek, will be released by the end of July.
Dangerous Designs, my debut YA, will be released on June 30th – if not earlier!
In my research, I’ve come across incredible psychic experiences, including out of body experiences, life after death visions, premonition, sightings of people long gone, etc. Have you a psychic experience you’d like to share?
I’ll start. I was in hospital years ago, when I was given a drug that I reacted to – badly. Given through a needle, the drug felt like ice moving up my arm. By the time the sensation reached just above my elbow, I passed out. Or did I? I could hear the nurses calling my name as they tried to bring me back out. Only I was floating down the hallway just outside my hospital room at the ceiling height and looking down at the tile floor. I could even see out the window. I didn’t want to come back, but with the next calling of my name, I woke up. To this day, I get shivers thinking about it.
Your turn! And remember, one person will win a free ecopy of Tuesday’s Child.
Dale Mayer – Romantic Suspense, Paranormal Romance, and YA author…and that’s just for starters! Stop by my website and sign up for my newsletter if you’d like to be notified of my releases as they roll out!
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Dale, that gave me chills. Years ago I read a book by psychic who said we all have the power in us, that some of us are more in tune to it than others. For an exercise, we were supposed to ask ourselves 5 question important to us, and the answers would come. I asked 4, couldn’t think of a 5th, so asked a throwaway question, to know if there really was a God. Then I promptly forgot about it, focusing on the other questions that were more important, though I can’t remember what they were.
The rest of the story is too long to write here in detail. The short version is that I went to bed — I was working at the time and usually went out when my head hit the pillow. Instead sparkles went through my body. Waves of them, the most glorious feeling. This went on and on. I finally realized what it was. The answer to my question about God.
Don’t put me in the contest. I already own and read Tuesday’s Child, and it’s awesome!
Good morning Edie!
Thanks for stopping by and sharing that awesome story! Isn’t it amazing the things we DON’T know or understand and the impact of an experience like this is life changing.
Thanks so much for your comment on Tuesday’s Child. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I have too many to talk about. I’m an empath and am very intuitive. I’ve had many ghostly experiences and out of body experiences. There are a number of pain meds I can’t take as I hover over my body and watch myself sleep. That’s a pretty creepy feeling. LOL! I’m very intrigued about the world we can’t see.
Your book sounds great and I know exactly what you mean about Cynthia being an awesome friend!! She’s da bomb!!
Hi Jillian,
Being an empath can be quite tiring on a person. Once you’ve had a couple of experiences and deal with them not too badly, they seem to come more and more often. I’d never considered an out of body experience a side effect of pain meds. There are many others I can’t take as well, now I’m going to wonder if that would happen with them too.
Like you, I find the world that exists around us, just out of sight, fascinating.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Hi, Dale! Thanks so much for coming by today! Congrats on the release of TUESDAY’S CHILD. 🙂
Hi Cynthia!
Thanks for having me here today. It’s an exciting time for me. Tuesday’s Child has long held a special place in my heart. That I can the share it’s debut with you makes it all that much better!
This sounds like a terrific book.
I have 2 things that happen/happens to me.
I once had a dream just before my father went into surgery. In my dream my grandfather(who had passed) was there with my family in the present. I looked at him in my dream and said “You’re dead, you can’t be here. Why don’t they know you are gone?” He looked at me and said, “I know I am gone and so do you. This is for you, your dad is going to ok.” Then my dream continued on with him in it interacting with my family. I still get the chills thinking about it.
The second thing is random but I have guessed the sex and birth date of several friend’s babies – one was really weird. I said a girl and on a date 2 weeks early then she was expected. ( on that date my friend had an emergency c-section) I also guessed her 2nd child even when they were told it was a girl repeatedly – I said boy. (He is a healthy boy). It’s just like a feeling or image I get. If I don’t get it I don’t guess.
For some reason, I was showing up as a guest, and my response to you ended up below! Sorry.
Dale
Hi Marnie,
Wow that’s awesome about your grandfather coming to visit you so you’d feel better about your dad. There’s so much that we don’t know about life and death!
Love that you could the sex of the babies. Sometimes I get that kind of feeling myself but usually about things like someone is going to call me (and then they do) or the phone is about to ring – and it does.
It makes me smile.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Wow Dale, that would bug me too.
I don’t know if I’m psychic or not but I feel others pain. It’s hard to describe because I don’t cry out w/it but my heart rate increases and I cringe into myself whenever I am around or hear of some one or even an animal being hurt.
I also have to ability to send messages to my husband no matter how far away he is. We live in OH and even when he’s in China he gets mental messages from me. He’s tried to send them to me but I never get them. Figure I have a solid wall built up :).
Hi Viki!
Wow, to be able to send messages to your DH is awesome. Imagine – no phones, cell phones, emails, etc. Now if you could only get him to do the same. Seriously though, that’s great because when you NEED him, you can get ahold of him regardless of where he is.
I imagine you have built up walls if you feel others pain so easily – a defense mechanism so to speak.
Thanks for stopping by!
Freaky.
Your book sounds great. Looking forward to reading it.
Hi Donnas,
Freaky is right! I can still see that hallway so clear in my mind, even after all these years.
Thanks for stopping by!
Dale
Dale, somehow I know you would have extra abilities. I have had several dreams in which a loved one appeared to me after death. I suspect one was intended for my e, since the people were his parents and I don’t think he is receptive to messages from the beyond. Once my grandmama came to tell me she was always with me. That was all she said, but she had dies after a massive stroke and in the dream she looked healthy and happy. She was always a serene person.
Hi Mary!
Lol on the extra abilities, I wish one was the ability to create a clone! I love it when people come to tell someone they love, who’s hurting, that they are fine now.
It gives me comfort to think they can watch over us.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Dale
Dale, As you well know, I’ve been a fan of Tuesday’s Child (and yours) for a long time. Not to toot my own horn, but I believe I was one of the first to say… hey, you’ve got something special here. Imagine being blessed with such a gift/curse. Your protag has to be something special to survive.
Gosh, I’m pretty black and white in my experiences. I will tell you I have the same dream over and over again, and it involves a moss-covered swimming pool and a house I own. It’s not my current house, but in my dream, it’s mine, it’s filled with rooms, some of which, I can never get to. What’s more the swimming pool is so gross. It’s my goal to clean it, but before I can, oodles of guests arrive and everyone is diving into that pool. It’s not a funny dream, it’s dark and edgy and leaves me feeling out of control….
What do you think Sam would make of this dream?
Hi Donnnell,
Thanks for the constant support of me and my writing! It’s much appreciate and on down days, it’s often friends like you that make me smile.
Now as to that dream…interesting. I’m going to take a jump at analyzing that one – with a little help from Sam and Stefan of course.
“The house likely represents your life and the rooms represent all the areas of your life that you get to on a regular basis, then there are the rooms that you can’t get to because there’s no time. You have too much on your plate. You try to get to everything but you can’t. You want to get to everything, but there’s no time to do it all.
The pool is the crux of the dream – and it represents your book(your writing).
Your debut novel is coming out. You want it perfect but you’re so busy doing other stuff that it seems like you can’t get to cleaning the pool. The moss is dark and old, as in old mistakes, old habits, stuff you need to clean up BEFORE people read it. The people diving in are, of course, the public as they read your book. They are diving in BEFORE you are READY for them to. They are ready and happy, otherwise they wouldn’t dive into what you see as something nasty that needs to be hidden because you didn’t get it fixed in time, so for them the experience isn’t negative or nasty!
The dark edgy and out of control feeling is just that…you’re venturing into the unknown. The process is out of your control, it’s in the hands of your publisher and soon to be public.
By the way…I’d say what you dreaming is totally normal…given the circumstances!
Dale
Thanks for sharing! For myself, the only things I have noticed are times of de ja vu and sometimes get a sense from people that makes me leery of them…
Hi Colleen,
Deja vu is such a weird feeling, it makes me think there has to be something almost paranormal about it. I also get that feeling about some people. Wonder if it’s more than instinct?
Thanks for stopping by!
Dale
I had major back surgery a few years ago, that evening
after the surgery things went fuzzy alarms went off
I was above my body watching them work on me I had
lost all blood pressure, heart beat was eratic they were
freaking out and I watched them the next thing I remember
I came to fine and was very calm and I asked them for a coke LOL I know strange
Hi Rhonda,
Cool story, but yeah strange isn’t it. It’s so wierd that we’re looking down too. Why not standing with the people or something other than that one step from heaven type of position.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Dale
I was living in this house years ago. One day I went into the bathroom and I hadn’t seen or heard anything unusual and normally I wouldn’t never have looked out the window but I just felt like I had to check the backyard. When I looked outside there were these two neighborhood dogs that were always getting out and they’d apparently dug under our fence and gotten in the yard. One of them had my cat’s whole head in it’s mouth. My cat was ok but for a few scratches. I don’t even want to think about what could have happened. I don’t know why I felt I had to look out when normally I wouldn’t have, I never bothered to before that day.
Hi Audrey,
Ohhh that’s scary. There’s that instinct, that weird sense of something wrong. Thank heavens you did listen! I have four cats of my own. I can’t imagine holding that image in my nightmares for the rest of my life!
Thanks for stopping by and sharing.
Dale
I had an odd dream once: I was answering my door and someone delivered an armful of flowers. It could have happened but it didn’t; my husband was served with papers to be selected for jury duty. And life is so strange!
Hi Diane,
Jury duty versus flowers? Makes you wonder if there was a connection or if it was something else altogether that you didn’t connect. A friend of mine used to get similar dreams in that she’d be getting a wrapped gift in her dream. In real life, she wasn’t handed actual wrapped gifts but often something nice came her way nonetheless.
Thanks for stopping by!
I am a believer and have seen an odd ghost or two in my time. However I think my husband has a better talent as he has predicted the sex of every baby of any woman he has met whilst they were pregnant (even if they’re only a few weeks along).
Mind you he told me every time that I was pregnant before I had even figured it out myself.
Hi Ilona,
That’s a great trick. Interesting that a male could do that. You’d think that it would be a woman’s talent being of the same energy. It would be unnerving to be told of the sex of your child if you didn’t even know you were pregnant!
Thanks for stopping by.
Dale
My incident with strange happenings was with my three year old daughter. She was playing in the bath tub, I was sitting, guarding her. She was lying on her side, eyes closed, curled in a ball, the water came half way up her body and face. All of a sudden she pops up out of the water and states matter-of-factly, “I remember being in your belly, Mommy.” Talk about a shock and a case of could it be true feelings. I wondered if her being curled like in fetal position, the water sound in her ear and the warm water surrounding her did trigger a memory of some type. How else would a toddler know what it was like in utero? Still amazes me!!
Hi Brenda,
That’s so cool. The whole setting definitely could have been a memory trigger! Wow, though. I’ve got four kids myself. I can’t say any of them have ever said anything like that.
That’s great. Maybe she’s intuitive?? Watch as she grows up and see what else she says.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Dale