Guest-blogging with me today as part of her blog tour is my old friend,
Marilyn Meredith. Marilyn is the author of over thirty published novels,
including the award winning Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery series. She borrows a
lot from where she lives in the Southern Sierra for the town of Bear Creek and
the surrounding area, including the nearby Tule River Indian Reservation. She
does like to remind everyone that she is writing fiction. Marilyn is a member
of EPIC, three chapters of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and on
the board of the Public Safety Writers of America. Visit her at http://fictionforyou.com and follow her blog at http://marilynmeredith.blogspot.com/.
Read to the end for news of her
blog tour contest and a link to where you can buy Spirit Shapes.
Kris and I have known each other for a long time. I’ve
done several talks at her wonderful book store, The Well Red Coyote in Sedona
Arizona.
In my opinion, Sedona is
one of the most beautiful places in the United States. The town is also known
for all of its artists and craftsmen and for its intriguing mystical and
spiritual leanings. Because of the latter, I
thought it might be fun to discuss some of the mystical and spiritual things in
Spirit Shapes.
Because a lot of the
story in Spirit Shapes, my latest Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery, takes
place in a haunted house, of course there are ghosts. Do I believe in ghosts?
Sure, I even live in a haunted house. Haunted by whom? I have no idea. I only
know that doors open and shut on their own and our two cats see things we
can’t. I don’t know why our ghosts don’t move on, but in Spirit Shapes Tempe finds out the
answers.
Evil spirits play a big
part in Spirit Shapes and yes, I do believe in evil spirits. I don’t
see how anyone can live in our world today and not see evil spirits at work.
All you need do is turn on the evening news to see what horror evil spirits
have done or prompted people to do.
And the most spiritual
of all characters in this book are angels. Their appearance is brief but
mighty. Once more my answer is I do believe in angels. I think they are present
in our world and busy protecting us. Unfortunately, the news doesn’t give as
much attention to miracles angels are responsible for.
As an author, I enjoyed
adding these mystical and spiritual creatures to Spirit Shapes and I hope you’ll enjoy
reading about them.
Contest:
The person who comments
on the most blogs on this blog tour will have the opportunity to have a
character named after him or her in the next Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery.
Tomorrow I’ll be visiting
at http://anastasiapollock.blogspot.com/
Blurb for Spirit Shapes:
Ghost hunters stumble upon a murdered teen in a haunted house. Deputy Tempe
Crabtree's investigation pulls her into a whirlwind of restless spirits, good
and evil, intertwined with the past and the present, and demons and angels at
war.
Buy link:
To buy directly from the
publisher in all formats: http://mundania.com/book.php?title=Spirit+Shapes
Also available directly
from Amazon.
