MYSTERY SHE WROTE...
DREAM GATE...GRABBING AIR
Mystery-suspense number six was originally intended to be a trilogy with "Dream Gate" then "Dream Gate - Grabbing Air" then "Dream Gate - Grabbing Time"...
However, once again I was convinced to merge my first two novellas into one novel.
This made sense as the research into dreams, something that fascinated Einstein, was an important scientific element I didn't want lost in a plot that couldn't be taken seriously or viewed as believable.
And, with another opportunity to merge some history with the fiction I could also expand the developing relationship of my two main characters to give that romance more depth.
In every three-ring binder of notes and research I assemble for each plot idea - I give all of my characters a birth date along with a pivotal early life event or more that 'shaped' them. Not all of this character-backstory may make it to the scenes of a final edit, but that character-essence is there and helps to create a substantial [multidimensional] 'person' - as someone a reader feels they have met - and not simply a name on paper.
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Olivia tried to go back to sleep--but unsettling--in her dream all of the shipping crates looked like they were made from the same pine wood as the crates found hidden in the false wall--exactly the same...
*Inside the wall cavity of a century old building inherited by cousins Olivia and Phoebe Jamieson were the remains of a man who died 80 years before along with four original oil paintings still listed as missing due to WWII thefts. From the moment of that discovery Olivia dealt with her growing feelings for the lead detective, the disruptive presence of an art investigator brought in to authenticate the paintings, and confusion over a series of dreams that seemed to leave clues to the body in the wall.
Then - just when Olivia began to make sense of the clues in her dreams, a new murder complicated everything. After her cousin and art investigator disappear, Olivia feared history maybe repeating. Then the confounding case takes another turn with neither the detective nor the art investigator who they claimed to be, and several corrupt factions go after the art and an accidental invention...
Author website: Patchwork Publishing, LLC
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**Every writer's journey is the same, but different...In "FROM THERE TO HERE" a memoir, [of sorts] I share more detail of my rather odd journey that may be of some help to others who find themselves compelled to write too...