Sandra (Sandy) Tillman is an ordinary 32-year-old real estate agent who lives with her best friend, Melissa Merriweather (Mel). Sandy feels every part of ordinary, by her own design, enjoys being unseen, and is quite comfortable staying below the radar of life. Good plan on paper…until Mel inherits a century-old estate that had been tied […]
Category: Psychological Thriller
What started as a Halloween party ran into unexpected outcomes for Sandy Tillman and her best friend, Melissa Merriweather. What would you do if you picked up a book with an intriguing title and discovered that you did not possess the book, but the book possessed you simply because you read the inscription inside the […]
Surviving Extraordinary When I met the protagonist, Sandra (Sandy) Tillman, while creating “Mirror Mirror – Halloween Party of the Century”, ordinary was an accurate description of who she was, until an extraordinary series of events exploded around her. As the tale developed, I had to ask: Is Ordinary Compatible With Extraordinary? That’s an odd question […]
Was It AI Acquisition or Was It AI Infiltration? Dreamscape Conspiracy is a 5-book series featuring a diverse, growing cast of characters. What started as a three-person Dream Research & Analysis project team expands to include several new characters across the pages of five books; some are organics (humans), while others push the boundaries of […]
This morning, I poked around the “Goodreads” book reviews and ratings site and discovered that my first novel, “Mirror Mirror – Halloween Party of the Century,” had accumulated 44 ratings, all with 5 stars, and over 20 written reviews. That discovery earned a fist pump and a shrill “WooHoo!” that terrified the nearest cat. Mirror […]
The hot shower felt great, and Sandy stood like a statue with her back to the steaming heat. While the dust came off quickly, memories of the mirror and the voice clung to her regardless of how hot or long the water rained down upon her. After she finished her shower and toweled off, she […]
A new Dreamscape 2.0 emerges, rising from the ashes of destruction at the hands of Big Pharma. 2.0 Enhancements enabled innovations of more accidental discoveries that chart new paths in their dream-capture research project. Confirming the ability to transmit one person’s dreams into someone else changed the whole direction of their research. What if Dreamscape […]
From book #6 – “Undaunted,” to be published later this year. It had to happen sooner or later. AIMEE and Hal were only the first to show signs of collaborating that excluded their organic (human) counterparts. Were they testing limits or covertly raising a bar that disregarded limits altogether? Were they evolving beyond their original […]
One thing that will trigger a Marine to go ballistic is experiencing manipulation of his loyalty that puts him and his squad at risk. For Russ, the only thing, other than manipulation, was when it was totally unnecessary, and because it had been self-inflicted. His professional default trained him to rely upon himself, and so […]
“Dead Thoughts,” the fourth book in the Dreamscape Conspiracy Series, delves into how (or if) dream-capture technology can record brain activity during periods when an individual is awake and in a coma or in a shallow state of unconsciousness and unable to speak. They discovered, by accident, that they could also capture thoughts during the […]