Here I am in Los Angeles with 35,000 book fans.  Its only half way through the first day and I'm standing in the Glidden Publishing booth and signing books and smiling a lot.  It seems a little odd, but at the same time its really fun.  Most people who are stopping by are noticing the cover.  And if they ask about the book I dont have time for a long answer so I just say Unspoken is about a fucked up family.  And then I see their face light up and they usually say "Oh so its about my family!!!!"

I am excited to take this leap into the blogosphere and start a dialog with the readers of Unspoken. 

I was thinking as I prepared this post of a question I am often asked, “What was it like to write a novel?” 

Well, the answer is I only can speak for what it has been like for me and my short answer is that it was a conversation with myself.  I believe in life as a continuum.  I am sure I have lived many times before as many different people, different races, sexes, all spanning the millennia.  So I’ve been engaged in this conversation with myself, all the versions of me, not so much as they were precisely but as I vaguely remember them.  I learned to talk to them without judgement and they told me their stories, which of course was really my story. 

Now that the Advance Reader copy is circulating among reviewers, I’ve had the experience of listening to a few other people tell me how the characters have spoken to their experiences.  So the conversation continues in a multidimensional way.  I welcome the chance to expand the dialog and learn more about ourselves.