Touched by The Light – short clips!

Touched by The Light
Touched by The Light

Following  the release of ‘Touched by The Light’ (available from Amazon) here are some extracts to give you a flavour of this story.  Mya tries to understand why she is suddenly connected to Laurel and Dan, two people she didn’t know before she saw ‘the light’.  Their relationship is in trouble, is she supposed to be helping them ?  Or is she just floundering around with no-one to guide her on her journey ….

EXTRACT 1:-

So here I am.  It’s the weirdest thing but I seem to be watching someone else’s life  I just don’t know how else to describe it.  I’m not sure where I am – and this is going to sound even weirder – I feel ‘here’ but there’s no physical presence to this feeling.  I still feel ‘me’  – same thoughts, same memories but it’s almost like I’m floating and seeing only through my mind’s eye.  I know it sounds insane but I need to try to explain, to make some sense of it.  When I stop panicking and relax, what I see and feel is what is going on in someone else’s life.  Yes, I know, I know how it sounds but just because it sounds unbelievable that doesn’t mean I’m not experiencing it.

EXTRACT 2:-

‘But Laurel, I’m dead.’  I’m expecting some sort of reaction here, but she just skips over my words as if they aren’t relevant.

‘You’ve probably been shown some link to your next life,’ she tells me with a slight sniff, while she dabs at her eyes with a soggy tissue.

‘Next life?  What “next life”?  You didn’t say anything about that before.’  There’s only so much earth-shattering news I can take in at any one time and this is all becoming a little over-whelming.

‘Look, sor-reee.  It’s just that I think Dan is going to break up with me and I don’t know what to do or why things are going so wrong.  I thought you were sent to help me but you’re really hard work.  You keep distracting me when I need to have my mind free to think about what’s going wrong with my life and what I’m going to do about it.’

Wow, now I feel selfish.  After all, I’m only dead and Laurel and Dan might be splitting up!  Great, I can still be sarcastic in the afterlife!

EXTRACT 3:-

I’m increasingly finding that having no concept of time is really making things difficult.  At first, ‘down time’, as I’ve started to think of the time when I’m not linked to Laurel, was peaceful, tranquil even.  Thinking of the things that happened in my life, I wasn’t sad, but happy and I laughed a lot.  In fact, it was great.  Now things are getting complicated and I seem to be spending whatever time I have ‘unlinked’ trying to work out what’s going on.  Then, when we do link up again, I have absolutely no idea how long it’s been since the last time I saw her, or what has happened in between, it’s really diff- hell!  With no warning at all, once again I’m somewhere else.

EXTRACT 4:-

Now that my eyes have adjusted to the darkness I scan around the room.  I can see there are seven or eight people sitting around quite a large table.  The woman who’s speaking is telling the group to put their fingers on a glass in the centre of what I can see now is a Ouija board!  Suddenly I’m being dragged up to the ceiling, directly above them.  It’s like I’m pinned up here and these people are doing this to me.  Un-be-live-able and I’m starting to fell really, really angry.

EXTRACT 5:-

My name is Grace Norris and I’m a medium.  What does that mean?  Well, I believe that when people leave their bodies behind, what I like to think of as ‘the essence’ of the person moves on to the afterlife.  I try not to use the word ‘death’ unless I absolutely have to, because it really upsets some spirits.  Moving across into the new dimension can be very difficult, as some find it hard letting go of this side of life.  Sometimes they hang back because their loved ones can’t accept what has happened and I think they feel a sense of guilt.  I also have a personal theory that spirits sometimes instinctively fight, without being sure exactly what it is they’re fighting against or why.  It’s a pity, because what’s to come is enlightening and they find a peace and purpose that gives a point to the life they had on earth.  Well, that’s true for most spirits, but there are, of course, those who suffer unfortunate deaths or have wronged others in this life and the transition is harder for them.  But Dan’s haunting sounds unusual ……………..

EXTRACT 6:-

‘Dan I know someone who’s doing research into telepathy, telekinesis, those sorts of things.  I think we’re looking at something a little unusual here – nothing to worry about, but if you really want some answers it might be worth us paying him a visit.  What do you think?’

‘Yeah, I’ll give anything a try.  You’re a great lady, Grace, and I appreciate your kindness.  My life at the moment seems to centre around trying to get some answers, I’ve got the list of questions – that was the easy part.’  He laughs.

‘I know, I know.  Life isn’t always going to be so tough, you know  The happiness will come, it’s in your future all right, but there are a few things you need to experience first.  Trust me, there’s nothing bad to worry about – if there was I’d be warning you!’

Author’s note – when Grace said to Dan ‘there are a few things you need to experience first’, I don’t think even she had any idea just how much of an understatement that was!  A psychic conundrum was about to unravel…


Touched by The Light

Touched by The Light cover
Available now

I am a new author and my first book entitled  ‘Touched by The Light’ is due out on 24 February 2011.  I write novels about life, love, psychic connections and/or an astrological theme.  As an avid reader myself I want a story to grab me and make me turn each page with eager expectation.  I want characters that are rounded (no one’s perfect, we all have ‘baggage’, problems and mountains to climb) and will be easy to warm to.  And I want an ending that feels complete.   So I hope that my readers will curl up on the sofa with a coffee, glass of wine or healthy glass of fruit juice, for a read that they won’t want to put down and will allow them a little escape from the stresses of every day life.

‘Touched by the Light’ can be purchased via the publisher’s website (Book Guild Publishing Limited) or from major bookselling websites.

When life was simpler ….

When I was twelve I doodled ‘Poetry is the epitaph of life’ in the margin of my English book. I stumbled across this recently and it made me realise how youth and inexperience actually allowed me to bare my soul in words, with no sense of holding back for fear of judgement. If only it was as easy as that as we grow older! This was a poem I wrote when I was fourteen years old –

Minutes of Uncertainty

The cold, grey morning
unwraps itself around my bed,
sliding over my dream and casting
that especially cruel Monday morning death
over my contented peace.

The time rolls on,
there is a destiny waiting,
a world unfulfilled,
lives to be led.

Beyond this, somewhere, is an end
where no tomorrow and no today survive,
where time hovers
and one hour becomes half an eternity,
the rest of our lives the missing half.

Welcome

Monday 13 December 2010 and day one of the start of my website.  Ironically the number 13 has always been very lucky for me, particularly Friday the 13th!  Strange how something that is lucky for one person can prove to be incredibly unlucky for another.  Well, whether it’s fate or a helping hand from those on the other side, you move forward in life grabbing what opportunities and help come your way (remembering to say a big thank you to those who have been there for you) …….