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Paul, welcome back to It's Raining Books. Why do you write in your genre? What draws you to it?
Supernatural thrillers are my thing. It taps into the unconscious mind, what I work with every day with patients in psychotherapy.
What research is required?
Personal experience is the best foundation for world building in supernatural fiction. Experiences you’ve had with the uncanny — dreams, synchronous events, and magical happenings.
Name one thing you learned from your hero/heroine.
The female heroines, in particular, help me to learn a little more about becoming a better human being.
Do you have any odd or interesting writing quirks, habits or superstitions?
I have Native American fetishes on my desk that I arrange in a certain way before writing.
I hit the page running and what happens, happens — a raw flow of emotion and drama.
Look to your right – what’s sitting there?
There’s a wall, reminds me of limits in the waking world and why sensitivity to the supernatural opens up realms of possibility and transformation.
Anything new coming up from you? What?
I’m finishing up The Goddess of Everything, a supernatural thriller about mother love gone bad and the need to break free!
Do you have a question for our readers?
Do you realize the supernatural/unconscious world affects you whether you believe in it or not?
Winner of the Independent Press Award and the NYC Big Book Award for Visionary Fiction!
Eve Sanchez, a scholar of esoteric studies, is driven into unreal dimensions of horror and hope as she encounters a seductive and frightening man, criminal lawyer Sam Shear.
Sam introduces Eve to a supernatural world in which the wicked powers of a surrogate mother’s twisted affection threaten love and life. Struggling to sort through right from wrong, frightened yet determined, Eve nears despair.
Goddess of the Wild Thing reveals the dramatic tale of one woman’s spiritual journey where metaphysical happenings, unexpected turns of fate, and unseen forces impact her ability to love and be loved.
In the magical realm of Aztlan del Sur, a mythopoeic land of hidden horrors and guiding spirits, Eve, with three friends and a wise old woman, is caught in an age-old struggle about love—whether bad love is better than no love— and discovers that love is a wild thing.
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Shirley spoke up, “Maybe we just gotta give it up and say there’s no good out there and no damn good men.” Shirley spat on the sidewalk, as she was prone to do when attitudes turned south and a pissed-off mood overrode a physician’s reserve. A petite woman, hovering around five-foot-three, she was a spitfire to friends and foes. Her red hair was a fine match for her spicy temperament. She never hesitated to snap her tongue, making an envious woman or cocky man shrivel and long to crawl into a nearby hole and cry. Shirley lived as a healer and a warrior, a woman who cared tenderly for the hurting and raged viciously at pretense and abuse.
Eve, Shirley, and two other friends, Tanya and Samantha, were plagued by man troubles the way pollution settles in during dusty days and humid nights in the Middle Rio Grande Valley of Aztlan del Sur. They were four esteemed professional women who could have any man they chose. Yet time and again, they went for the lower, the bad, the worst. They sabotaged the good, the permanent. Commitment was a frightening consideration for four women who’d suffered childhoods of parental dysfunctional neglect and split-ups. They often quipped, “We found each other because like finds like.” Tonight, Eve’s troubles were front and center. She’d done it again or at least worried she had. The glitch in the man was in the type she attracted: charmers—striking and untrue. Suffering had begun. Time was critical. To stick it out or get out was her dilemma. Things with a new man had taken a terrifying turn.
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