Published by Deborah Woehr on 23 Dec 2007 at 05:08 pm
Prosperity Released
I’ve had a penchant for ghost stories ever since I could remember. Anyone out there remember Creature Feature? I saw my first horror movie when I was thirteen, when my aunt took me to see Friday the 13th and Prophecy. Of course we just HAD to go to a campsite for a family reunion that year!
I didn’t really become interested in ghosts or the afterlife until I lost my grandfather. Organized religion did nothing but confuse me. So I turned to books written by Betty Edie, John Edward, and Barbara Rommer. Rommer’s book turned out to be my favorite on the subject because I didn’t believe that everyone experience chariots and angels after they died.
It wasn’t until I lost one of my brothers that I began to write novels and short stories. Writing became my outlet and an obsession that my family has endured for the past decade. My first story was about a serial killer. This manuscript never saw the light of day for several reasons.
Shortly after I had published my first short story, I began to write a story that I eventually called Prosperity. Is death really an escape from all of our problems? Is there a Heaven and a Hell? Or, are we forced to face and deal with the problems that we avoided in life? These were the questions that kept pervading my mind as I worked out the plot for this novel, which was just released last weekend from Lulu.
Amanda Thorne is an embattled clairvoyant, who refuses to believe in God or the afterlife, even when the ghost of her murdered husband confronts her from his grave. More ghosts confront her when she finds herself stranded in a tiny town in Arizona.
Two of them mistake her for a prominent woman who was murdered 79 years ago. One of them wants to avenge him for the murder, and the other wants to kill her all over again. She and her misplaced deputy friend must uncover the truth about the murder before history repeats itself.
Right now, the book is available only from Lulu. I’m anticipating that it will be available on Amazon and Barnes&Noble some time in February, when I’ll be going on my first virtual book tour. More about that later.
