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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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.
I received earlier this week a reply from Prospect Agency regarding Black Dreams, Silver Linings, now retitled as Island of Dreams. A rejection like this is enough to keep me going for months. Particularly note the Editorial Note.
From: Prospect Agency - Submissions <submissions@prospectagency.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:22:41 -0400 To: Gretchen hummel <Gretchhh@aol.com> Subject: Your submission To Gretchen Hummel, Thank you for submitting to Prospect Agency. We greatly appreciate your submission, and though Black Dreams, Silver Linings is not a good fit for us, we think your writing shows promise. We would be interested in considering future projects from you should you choose to submit them. We wish you all the best in your writing career and thank you for thinking of Prospect Agency. With best wishes, Prospect Agency Editorial Note: Well written and the premise was intriguing. Unfortunately, these first chapters moved too slowly to keep my interest and didn't quite pull me in enough. I would be happy to see more work from this author though!