Leg muscles burning and arms punching through water and air, hands clawing for something, anything that can pull me up, pull me out, give me a chance-Help me help me help me . . . Gasping, SERA wakes from the nightmare-again. Her therapist believes that her troubled young patient is reliving the drowning death from a past life in her dreams. When she convinces Sera to travel back in time to witness the death of that past entity in an effort to break the nightmare's cycle, Sera is faced with a difficult choice: does she stand by and let events unfold as they will, or does she break the rules of time travel and help to save the ones she loves, only to risk everything, including her own life? The choice she makes results in an anomaly so horrible and yet so beautiful, it transforms each of them.
Leann Marshall is the author of two novels. Her first book, The Starfish People, won the Silver Medal in the Fantasy/Science Fiction Category of the 12th Annual 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) and received honorable mention in both the 2008 Beach Book Awards held in Atlantic City, and in the science fiction category of the 2008 New York Book Festival.
Her second book, The Rendering, has just been published and is now available on Amazon, and will be available on other online bookstores as soon as they receive the information from the publisher. This book--speculative fiction--is part mystery, part supernatural thriller. The Rendering, as The Starfish People, will soon be available on Kindle. Check it out!
"Born in Springfield, Missouri and having a father in the Communications industry, we moved a few times so that I grew up in St. Louis, Nashville, and ended up in Charlotte, NC where I've lived for many years.
Seems like when I'm in a group of people, I've always been the one quietly observing everything going on instead of planting myself in the center of things. Not that I'm anti social--I'm not--it's just the way I am. And actually it's been invaluable to me as a writer to fall back on these observations of people and places and things through the years. Many writers are thoughtful observers--they'll tell you so.
What do I get out of writing? Besides the fact that all you really need is a pen and a tablet which will go anywhere--at the very least it's a great creative outlet--at the most it's a wonderful form of self expression and an extraordinary, ongoing learning experience about many things, including myself.
I've been influenced by many different genres and author voices from an early age. As a girl I read classics such as Little Women and Black Beauty, and mysteries such as the Nancy Drew series. Later on, I also loved books by Jules Verne and George Orwell, John Irving, Arthur C. Clarke and Grisham and King and Brown and Binchey and--!--anything new and unusual and mind-provoking--The point is, I've always loved to read and to me it's a privilege to have written something that perhaps others can enjoy for years to come.
My published writings include a humorous short story in Hodgepodge; my story received the magazine's "Best Short Story of the Year Award"), a horror story in Dead of Night, and three contributions printed in Dark and Stormy Rides Again--the book compiled by Scott Rice from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest. Between 1993 and 1995, I wrote several human-interest articles and many humorous columns for the Lincoln Gazette, a section of the Gaston Gazette."
Visit my personal Website: http://www.leannmarshall.com
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