Speaking to the Dead

I know, weird subject, but I see so much about speaking to the dead lately on television. There are those who claim to actually do it and then there is fiction like The Ghost Whisperer. There is all about hauntings on the Discovery channel. After watching John Edwards (I think that's his name. I might be thinking of the senator though) and the woman with the skunk hair-do, it really got me to wondering about speaking to the dead.

Do you think it's possible to connect with those from the other side? Do they hear us? Do they have something they meant to tell us but didn't get a chance to do it? God, I hope so. In my latest release, THE VIOLIN, Genevieve is haunted by dreams of a man who died back in 1927. Wouldn't it be wonderful if those we loved could speak to us in our dreams? I did dream about my mother a year after she died and she told me where a missing pair of earrings were. Granted, it could have been that my subconscious knew where those darn earrings were and it just came up in a dream when my subconscious was free floating in my mind. But I like that the information was presented by someone I loved. The earrings were in the pocket of a coat I had not worn since the night my mother died. Still, I hope it really was her speaking to me in a dream.

What a wonderful feeling to know that they were only separated from us by some thin, mysterious Vail. Perhaps they know what we are going through. Just maybe, they can whisper to us words of encouragement and guidance. Maybe this kind of soft communication is what we call "a hunch".

Personally, I hope that all of this is true. I would love to hear from my parents, my niece, Christy, and my Uncle John. It wold be so wonderful to ask them questions about their lives on the other side and tell them how much I love and miss them.

If you could speak to the dead, who would you want to communicate with? What would you say?

Wishing you all good things to your corner of the universe. Happy Memorial Day.

Sarah J. McNeal

www.sarahmcneal.com

Love & War

My new book for Severn House will be out next month. Love & War is the second in the Upstairs Downstairs trilogy. I am working on the third book in a new Linda Sole trilogy and I have finished the third in the Upstairs Downstairs trilogy. Now I have to finish my Regency trilogy for HMB!

I love the covers on the SH books because they are real and this one even looks a bit like my husband's father as a young man.

Three New Contracts!

Big news for me! NCP has offered me three new contracts! Woo-Hoo! The contracts were offered on the sequel to I'll Be Yours, His Lady's Keeper, my futuristic paranormal fantasy, Psychic Chains, and my futuristic paranormal fantasy, Rogue Fairy book one in my new Exiles of Magic Series!

More information, coming soon! Remember, you can subscribe to my newsletter author group, so you'll be the first to know of any new information concerning my books!

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And the good news train just keeps on going...I have also had a new author website designed by the fabulously talented, Rae Monet! You can follow the link below to see the new look!

My new author website!

I'm off to do some more happy dancing!

~Marly

I'm Back! (Sort of)

Hello pretties,

At long last, after months of grueling, unending misery (okay, it was two weeks), final exams are over! I'm taking summer classes, so the relief is short-lived, but I have a nice week and a half break before I'm back in the thick of it.

I'm spending the time finishing my current novel, Reckless Liaisons. It's nearly done. Requested partials are already under review with a few agents and editors I pitched to at an RWA conference in March. With any luck, I'll be hearing from them soon. Once the book is complete, I'll be querying more agents and editors with fingers crossed.

It's a frightening, but exciting thing, the next step in my career as a writer; that is, trying to make the jump from small press to mass market with a New York house. I know the book is good enough. I'm very proud of myself.

So, keep your fingers crossed for me!

Message In A Bottle

I seem to be on a communication kick lately but I've been wondering about messages in bottles.

Have you ever put a message in a bottle? I've seen it in movies where marooned people put a message in a bottle hoping that someone, somewhere will come to find them and save them. Putting a message in a bottle could also be like sending a message out into the great unknown of the universe. Maybe it could be a wish or a hope of being saved in some spiritual way or hoping to find our one true love. It could be like a prayer or a question sent out with the desire for an answer.

Does the bottle have to be in the ocean? Couldn't it be sitting in the sun there on the kitchen windowsill? Couldn't we write little notes and put them in the bottle, a wish that the world could be at peace, that someone we know could be in good health, or write a message to someone who now resides on the other side?

I have a cobalt blue bottle in my kitchen window. I write notes, prayers and wishes for all the things I can't do anything about and I roll them up and put them in the bottle for the sun to shine on and the universal power to answer or handle. It brings me peace to release these thoughts, questions or wishes.

What about you? If you could write a message that would transcend time, place and dimension, what would you write? Have you ever found a message in a bottle? How did it make you feel?

Sarah McNeal

http://www.sarahmcneal.com/

Too Hot To Handle

Excerpt from Too Hot To Handle/Linda Sole/Eternal Press

This book will be published by Eternal Press in June

Sylvie knew that most of her friends settled for sex and a mutual liking, companionship and someone to share their lives. They went in for relationships that were never intended to be permanent, which might last for a few months or a few years, but would eventually end as one partner moved on to a new relationship.
"Marriage doesn’t matter anymore," was the general theory, and Sylvie had gone along with it, but in her heart she couldn’t help wanting more.
Well, you’re not likely to find it with Rafe Wilde, she told herself firmly. He simply isn’t the marrying kind.
She sighed, then smiled at her own thoughts. Mr. Wilde was just too attractive for her peace of mind.
And yet there had been a moment in his arms when she would have given herself and not though twice about it. Even now there was a tender, sensitized feeling between her thighs, a need that she had never felt before.

Too Hot To Handle

Coming soon from Eternal Press.

Too HotTo Handle/Linda Sole

Sylvie knew that most of her friends settled for sex and a mutual liking, companionship and someone to share their lives. They went in for relationships that were never intended to be permanent, which might last for a few months or a few years, but would eventually end as one partner moved on to a new relationship.
"Marriage doesn’t matter anymore," was the general theory, and Sylvie had gone along with it, but in her heart she couldn’t help wanting more.
Well, you’re not likely to find it with Rafe Wilde, she told herself firmly. He simply isn’t the marrying kind.
She sighed, then smiled at her own thoughts. Mr. Wilde was just too attractive for her peace of mind.
And yet there had been a moment in his arms when she would have given herself and not though twice about it. Even now there was a tender, sensitized feeling between her thighs, a need that she had never felt before.