Below is a link to an article about Dreamer’s Island written by Brenda Barger in Davidson News, our local online news source.
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I’m happy to announce that an excerpt from my book, Dreamer’s Island, has been chosen as one of several works to be showcased at the next Charlotte Writer’s Club Meeting on Jan 17th at 7 p.m. at the Queen’s University Conference Center on Tyvola Road in Charlotte.
In a post-plague, baby-hungry world Blair searches for her kidnapped daughter. She works as a tour guide on what mainlanders call Devil’s Island—all that’s left of a future San Francisco. The island is infamous for its high rate of plague survivors, its lively, thriving arts community, and its suspect spirituality.
Islanders are fascinated by mysterious “plague-gifts” – knowledge and skills acquired by surviving the plague and are covertly experimenting with the virus. Mainlanders abhor the mere mention of anything plague-related.
The island is quarantined, yet mainlanders Dr. Lourdes and his daughters insist on a visit. Their stated agenda is to shop the arts district and to adopt a child. But Dr. Lourdes’s curiosity about rumored plague virus experiments has Blair worried about the true purpose of their visit.
When the doctor’s youngest daughter contracts the plague, Blair must call on all her plague-gifts to help her survive. The girl’s fight for her life and Blair’s search for her own daughter dovetail in a startling conclusion that is beyond Blair’s wildest dreams.
Dreamer’s Island is available on Amazon.com and other major retail sites.
Instead, this will be the image for the front cover. The publisher is going to position a little girl in the archway looking out over the sea. And, of course, will add the title and byline and the wonderful endorsement for the book, I got from O. Henry Award Winner, Alison Baker. I like this image, as well, but not as much as the other.