Empathic Ink

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Several people have asked me the same questions, so I thought I would publicly answer some of them. I love it when readers have questions, by the way, so never be afraid to ask me something! 1. My daughter is ten and wants to read 'For Always'. Is the content suitable for her? It is YA, not middle grade, so if it were me, I would wait. My daughter is nine, but was dying to read it, so I've been reading it to her, omitting any parts that may not be age-appropriate. To me, fourteenish & up is a more appropriate age, more for content than language. (It is fairly clean as far as language goes, but it is a romance novel.) 2. Will Max & Nellie hook up? This is one of those questions that I didn't expect, but I guess I can see why people have asked. Sorry, I can't really answer this one just yet. That's one of those things you will have to find out when you read book two...or three. (And that applies to questions about Beau...

Now available on Amazon! Click Here WHAT?!? I went out to eat with my family last night and came home to a few messages on Facebook. One happened to read: Hi, I just saw that your book is on Amazon to download for Kindle. I have two Nooks! Why does it show Kindle ebook and not paperback yet? Not thinking it would be available at all until the 18th, I quickly pulled up Amazon to see if it was actually there (after I sat there with my mouth hanging open, trying to halt my rapidly increasing heartbeat). To my surprise, there it was. My unpublished virginity had been taken—I was officially a published author! With this being my debut novel, the feeling of seeing my baby, my firstborn, up in lights—on Amazon—was overwhelming. The thought of someone reading my words and hopefully loving my story excited me more than any amount of money the book may bring. Something I had dreamed about for a long time had come to fruition, and people were going to be able to read my book...

I am excited to announce . . . For Always  will officially be available on November 18th! Malyn Reed meets and quickly falls in love with Beau Brogan,  who seems to be perfect in every way…  Except for the fact that he died in 1910… Malyn Reed has been able to see spirits her entire life. Now that she’s almost seventeen, she has learned to differentiate between the living and the dead, making her gift feel less like an evil curse. She ignores the spirits she encounters daily, which has made living side by side with them slightly easier…until she moves to Dandridge, the second-oldest town in Tennessee. Beau Brogan has been dead for a hundred years. In life, he was a hard-working country boy who loved his family and stole the hearts of many southern belles. But all of that came to a tragic halt at the age of nineteen when his life came to an untimely end. In death, his spirit has been entombed in a ghostly life of loneliness and misery...

Coming soon . . . . A YA Fiction novel with a paranormal twist  They meet . . . They fall in love . . . But there was just one problem . . . Beau died in 1910 . . . Can their love survive beyond the death  that took his life so long ago? I will be posting launch dates on my facebook page & on twitter , so make sure to like & follow! For more info about 'For Always' click here Published by Limitless Publishing

My manuscript of 'For Always' When I printed off the first draft of my finished manuscript, I literally almost cried . . . like a proud new parent holding their baby for the first time. As you can see, my first child—ahem—I mean manuscript, was a doozy. At a little over 115,000 words, 'For Always' is a rather lengthy debut novel. Some YA publishers and literary agents won't even accept a submission if it's over 90,000 words. I gasped at this, knowing that there was no way that I would be able to cut anything out, and I didn't. Luckily, Limitless Publishing thought the length was fine and my debut novel is being published as I work to complete book two. Because I was able to get my debut novel published, and rather quickly, I might add, with no formal training or college degree, I thought I would share what I have learned (on my own) with others who, like me, have no clue to what the whole submission process entails. You have finished writing...

This photo was taken by a guest at one of our events in Downtown Morristown,  who said that it felt like someone was following her down the steps. She turned and took this photo over her shoulder...and then ran once she looked at it. One of the buildings located behind the Thomas House . Orbs . . . proof of the afterlife or that it's dusty? This is a much debated phenomena within the paranormal community. What are orbs? The usual 'orb' is round, may have a 'face', 'eye', rings, or spots in it, and varies from transparent to white, and they even come in different colors on occasion. In my opinion, most orbs occur when the camera flash reflects off of dust or moisture that is in the air, or even a bug. When I took the photo to the left, I didn't look at it and say, "Wow, I just took a picture of a ghost." I was outside, on a humid Tennessee night, and knew that it was moisture. This is what often happens in photos fro...

  A lot of people ask me how I got involved in the paranormal or why I'm a 'ghost hunter'. I think my reason for getting involved in it is the same as many other investigators; I've had an experience. And when you experience something you can't explain, you want answers. So when people ask me why, I share my ghost story. As a teenager, we lived in the second oldest town in Tennessee—the beautiful town of Dandridge. Shortly after moving into our house, we noticed some strange things happening. My little brother, who was around one or two years old at the time, would look into his dark bedroom and talk (gibber-jabber) to someone who we couldn't see. Then things started getting moved, usually while we were asleep or not at home. I came home from school one day to find the drawers under my bed pulled out and my clothes hanging out of them, pulled right out into the floor, yet no one had been in my room. And my mom couldn't find her tea, on...

Being a Christian Paranormal Investigator seems like an oxymoron to some people. I have heard that 'the Holy Ghost is the only ghost there is . . . anything else is of the devil'. Well, I don't have all the answers, and I'm not all-knowing , but I do beg to differ, seeing as how I would never go chasing the devil. (I shudder at the thought.) With the recent influx of paranormal shows, such as Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures, just to name a couple, people from all walks of life have taken an interest, not only as fans of these shows but as investigators. There's probably not a single town that doesn't have at least one resident paranormal group. When I hear that we are 'chasing the devil' or 'conjuring evil', I get really offended, especially when I have a hard time just watching a movie that contains an evil plot. (I think I'm the only Paranormal Investigator who has never seen The Exorcist.) There is a vast difference between searchin...