I’d been trying to find my creative niche all my adult life; in the mid-2000’s I read a book about recovering from a chronic illness—a “syndrome”—I’d been diagnosed with. Everyone interviewed believed the illness was a wake-up call from their soul. That book, along with a lot of reflection and some signs I felt the Universe had sent me, set me on the path of fiction writing.

My characters’ thoughts about Oneness and the depictions of spirits in my novel reflect my own experiences and my current spiritual understanding (which is, I’m still very, very confused about everything), along with some artistic license and wish-fulfillment, probably.