The Megan Series began in June 2013 with the first story ‘The Misconception’, a story about a young girl looking for help with her blossoming psychic powers. She asks her family first, but gets no help, then the dead offer advice…
En andlig guide, en spöktiger, och en skrämmande mamma!
av
Owen Jones
Översatt av
Charlotta Zaar Böll
Berättat av
Ida Berglöw Kenneway
“Villfarelsen” är den första delen i en serie av tjugotre noveller om den andliga utvecklingen hos en ung flicka som heter Megan. Hon har latenta övernaturliga krafter och hon är nyfiken på att utveckla dem, men ingen annan som hon känner verkar ha någon aning vad hon pratar om.
Eller gör dom det? Både hennes mormor och hennes mamma gör allt de kan för att stoppa Megan från att ta reda på mer. Historien visar Megans frustration med de levande, så när hjälp kommer från den andra sidan, tar hon emot den med öppna armar och utvecklar långsamt men säkert sina övernaturliga krafter.
Detta är berättelsen om Megans uppvaknande.
“Villfarelsen” handlar om de paranormala krafter som finns inom oss alla, vilket borde göra dem helt normala istället för paranormala, om människor inte var så rädda för det övernaturliga, vilket i sig självt också är helt naturligt.
Det här är en bok för alla som någonsin har funderat över det övernaturliga, paranormala eller metafysiska- Det handlar om den normala andliga utvecklingen som alla högre själar måste gå igenom för att nå sitt ultimata, oundvikliga öde, hur lång tid det än kan ta. Dessa berättelser bygger på faktum på flera sätt än en.
Mijn vader was een Spiritistische Genezer, net als zijn moeder en drie zussen, terwijl zijn vader en zeven broers een beetje bang waren voor het concept. Mijn moeder geloofde in de principes van Spiritisme, maar haar ouders waren katholiek en waren er extreem tegen.
Mijn vader vertelde me echter altijd dat mijn moeder een heks was, en ze gaf vaak toe een witte heks te zijn. Mijn vader zei dat haar moeder ook een oude heks was, maar ik denk dat dat kwam omdat ze niet met elkaar konden opschieten. Toen mijn ouders trouwden, woonden ze bij mijn grootouders van moederskant, en nog een korte tijd nadat ik was geboren.
De basis voor alle verhalen in de Megan-serie vinden hier hun oorsprong. Mijn moeder vertelde me veel verhalen over mijn babytijd, dus ik ben de baby waarnaar ik verwijs, hoewel de rest van de serie naar mijn moeder verwijst. Ik heb ons tweeën samnegebracht omwille van het verhaal. Grrr de tijger was ook mijn vertrouwelinge, hoewel mijn beide ouders haar konden zien.
Blijkbaar droeg ze Grrr op voor me te zorgen wanneer mijn moeder me voor een korte tijd moest verlaten, bijvoorbeeld terwijl ze naar de WC ging. Ik herinner me dit alles maar heel vaag, maar ik kende mijn moeder eenentwintig jaar voordat ze op tweeënveertigjarige leeftijd overleed, en ze was volkomen bij haar verstand.
“The Misconception” is the first story in the Megan Series Audiobooks of twenty-three novelettes about the spiritual development of Megan, a young girl. In the first story, she is twelve years of age. She has latent, supernatural powers and is curious about how to use them, but no-one that she knows seems to have any idea what she is talking about.
She tries asking her mother and even asks friends at school, but she gets no help. However, it is unclear whether her mother has had previous experience with the paranormal, although we do see early on in the first novelette that Megan’s maternal grandmother was against the paranormal too.
Her grandmother and her mother do everything they possibly can to prevent Megan from finding out any more. The first volume shows Megan’s frustration with the living, so when help comes from Beyond, she grasps it with both hands and slowly develops her supernatural powers.
The Megan Series Audiobooks is about Megan’s psychic Awakening.
‘The Misconception’ is about the paranormal powers which lie in all of us, which would make them not so much paranormal as quite normal, if people were not so frightened of the supernatural, which is quite natural too.
In the following books, and they are being released at the rate of one a month, we see Megan’s behaviour under different circumstances. We also meet the people, and animals, who interact with her. The main characters are: Megan’s mother, Suzanne; Megan’s father, Robert; her spiritual guide, Wacinhinsha, her maternal grandfather, Gramps and her familiar, a huge Siberian tiger called Grrr.
Wacinhinsha is a senior Spiritual Guide who has come to help Megan because she had no-one else, and was actually being punished for her curiosity into the paranormal and supernatural. He is a native American, what most people outside the USA would call a Red Indian of the Sioux tribe.
Wacinhinsha has a deep knowledge of spiritual life and is willing to help Megan with anything that she wants to know, which no-one else she knows is seems able to do.
Her grandfather, Gramps, has been dead for about thirteen years, but he is still very much a novice. He wants to help Megan and tries to get involved but his inexperience trips him up sometimes. Despite that, Megan is close to her Gramps as she has known him as a ‘ghost’ since she was a baby
Grrr is a tiger that died a long time ago. She cannot speak any language but tiger, of course, and humans do not understand much tiger – Megan is no exception. However, Megan and Grrr tend to understand each other a little more than anyone with a close pet does, although Grrr is not a pet by any stretch of the imagination.
The Megan Series Audiobooks
These books are for everyone who has ever wondered about the supernatural, paranormal or metaphysical – it is about the normal, spiritual development that all higher life forms have to go through in order to reach their ultimate, unavoidable destiny, however long that may take. These stories are based on fact in more ways than one.
Reviews are available on the website you will reach by following the link below. Please leave your own short review too.
The Megan Series audiobooks, ebooks and paperbacks are on Amazon and also available in many other languages (see Foreign Translations above)!
It is so sad that people, often writers, feel that they can talk about subjects they know little about in chase of their dream of celebrity and fortune. They wouldn’t write a load of tripe about an ethnic minority, but will about a religious one.
Imagine a Southern Baptist writing a story which involved Muslims without any knowledge of the religion… just making it up as he went along to suit the twists and turns of his plot? It would take a brave or stupid author indeed to write in such an irresponsible manner.
However, switch the religion to Spiritualism (or anything similar), which has millions of followers and tens of thousands of churches, and the author thinks he can write with impunity. OK, I am a Spiritualist and so were my parents and paternal grandparents, but I am not advocating a Jihad, if our church has the power or inclination to order such a thing.
I still think that it is sad though that many/most writers, who talk about ghosts, Spirit, life after death, and psychic powers tread on our beliefs so readily. For something to be paranormal, you have to believe that it is unexplainable and so possible, however remotely. Most stories labelled paranormal are explainable simply as being unbelievable even by their writers,
I know that Spiritualists don’t have sole belief in those subjects, but most writers of ‘paranormal’ don’t believe what they write about AT ALL. they just make it up as they go along or copy the old stereotypes.
That is also very sad – just regurgitating old Victorian Gothic tales, because the fact is that within the scope of the religion, Spiritualism (and all the others), there is plenty of choice for great stories without the writer having to appear to be a plagiarist or just plain silly.
Dragons (of the Welsh variety), vampires, werewolves, ghouls, zombies and all that ilk are not paranormal, unless you believe that they might exist! As it happens, I believe that it might be possible to shape-shift, but not that such an advanced person would choose to become a cannibal.
So, this is a plea to all you writers who think that your subject is Paranormal, just do some research like the rest of us and you will find that your stories become much more scary because they will be believable!
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I have always been suspicious that book give-aways are counter-productive, but I am open to learning that I am wrong, so I have decided to conduct an experiment. To that end, I have added a page to this, my busiest website, for book give-aways, although it will probably become a permanent feature of the blog.
Megan Publishing Services had an average of 90,000 page-views a month in 2015, although I don’t know much about the demographics. However, given the title of the blog, I assume that most surfers know that it must be about reading and writing before they click the hyper-link to get there.
If you are an author who would like to test whether book give-aways work in your case, please follow the link at the bottom of this page. Likewise if you are a reader wishing to take advantage of what you will find there.
(I have also added links to some free videos that have given me food for thought recently).
If you, as an author, would like to run a book give-away for a limited time only, say, the first week of the New Year, that is possible too – just pass me the dates when the give-away should be live.
For those of you who revel in statistics, I should be able to provide an insight into how many times your book was downloaded, which I don’t think I have seen any other site offering. At the end of January, I could run a short poll to find out how successful the book give-aways were, if there is enough interest.
I have three Twitter feeds ranking in age as @owen-author, @lekwilliams and @Megan_and_Grrr. They were always meant to be kept separate. One was for me, one for Lek from the Behind The Smile series, and one for Megan from that series.
Unfortunately, over the years, due to my ignorance, the difference between the Twitter feeds blurred and the same posts were sent to all three of them and at the same time, so it wasn’t worth joining them all. This came about because of the way it was using Hootsuite.
So, I am going to put all that right again, and I have started by giving up on Hootsuite and adopting a new system, which may be the subject of a later post.
Anyway, my new system will redraw the original lines between the Twitter feeds, so that you have more choice what you want to receive. There will be a tiny bit of overlap, but I will be consciously trying to keep it to a minimum. Most of it will be concerning books. For example, a post about a new volume in the Megan Series or Behind The Smile will also be posted in my author account.
However, posts related to Thailand will only go to @lekwilliams and posts on fantasy subjects will only go to @Megan_and_Grrr. So, if you follow one or more of my Twitter feeds, I suggest that you decide which one(s) you are interested in and react accordingly.
Most of the changes necessary at my end have already been implemented, now my biggest task is to change my mindset and stick to the new system.
Some of you have already noticed the changes and, most of those approve. It should make for a more targeted news stream, but if you prefer a more general Twitter feed, opt for @owen_author
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I am having quite a time of publishing at the moment. Yesterday, I published the 112,000-word fifth sequel to Behind The Smile, called The Dream and today I published the second in the Megan Compilation Series of five 11,000-word novelettes on the psychic development of Megan, a teenage Celtic psychic.
I should be ready to publish my Nano 2015 challenge entry, the 50,000-word A Night in Annwn on Monday.
That all sounds good enough, but I still have the 80,000-word Andropov’s Cuckoo waiting in the wings ready for publishing.
All well and good, but my patience finally ran out as far as my website host Hostgator was concerned and I dumped them. I have moved to a company I had never heard of before, but they moved me lock stock and barrel this afternoon.
That meant publishing my websites again, but they took care of that for me. I have not had a chance to test the sites yet as I am out proofreading Annwn, but I will go home to test them within the hour.
I will post a report on my experience tomorrow, so if you are dissatisfied with your website host, wait twenty-four hours and I’ll let you know. My first impression of publishing my websites with these guys is very good, I can tell you that much and I have spoken to two people at the firm so far.
As for my publishing future, after about the second week of December, I find that it is not worth promoting for the rest of the month, so I will probably be publishing some of the non-fiction that I currently only have on Amazon, on other platforms too. Notably, Lulu, Kobo, and GooglePlay.
It is also a good time to be thinking of new ideas – book titles and the like.
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Reading my recent posts must be becoming as boring and predictable as my Internet reception is for me! It is just more of the same!
Unfortunately, the story today is also more of the same. Last night the signal was strong, as it was this morning, and then, all of a sudden, at noon, it crashes to 48 Kbps, which, if you don’t know, is like unloading a lorry-load of sand with a spoon.
Don’t worry about what size lorry, any lorry and any spoon for that matter too.
Nevertheless, I am learning, so I got my advertising done at six a.m. or so, then uploaded a few more books, and when the inevitable crash came, I switched to editing Lek 6. I have completed a third of the first pass, which puts me back on track.
I imagine that more of the same is on the cards for tomorrow.
Neem, my wife, for new readers, told me today that next Monday and Tuesday are ‘Big Days for Buddha’. I don’t know which ones yet, but possibly it’s when they walk around the Wat in procession with candles. If it is that one then many people will come back for the weekend etc..
We also have a wedding in the family on the fourteenth of November, she told me. So, a busy first two weeks of next month coming up. I also promised to take a week or two off over Christmas so that we could go to Pattaya for a holiday.
It was a rash promise to make, but it is done now. Nine weeks away, less, so I have just worked out. In November, there will also be Loy Krathung, Thailand’s St Valentine’s Day and many women’s favourite day of the year and I have to remember to tell the police where I live, my 90-Days Notification.
And of the whole lot of things to do, the last is the most important.
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I really want to apologise to all the people I work with on the Internet for letting them down so often this week, but my Internet connection has been shockingly bad. One bad day is unusual, but this is the fourth in a row and it is driving me insane. It was all right late last night when I went to bed, and this morning when I got up at five, but by ten the Internet connection was struggling again and was down before midday.
I managed to re-edit and republish three more books in that time including putting them on Kobo and GooglePlay. My goal is four or five a day, so not good. I would have liked to finish before NaNoWriMo started, but that looks unlikely now.
In my ‘down time’, I started to proofread Lek 6. I would like to get the first reading out of the way before NaNoWriMo too, which will give me twenty-one days to read and edit it again before it has to be handed over to Kindle to comply with the conditions of being able to set up pre-orders. So far, only one person has pre-ordered. Thank you, Glyn! Although I know that others are waiting for the paperback version before they buy.
Does anyone actually use, read or sell, on Kobo or GooglePlay? If so, please let me know, because I don’t know anyone personally. However, I am doing all this work and neither of them has sold a book for me this month yet. I find it very discouraging and coupled with the lack of an Internet connection, downright soul-destroying.
Gail’s mother has come up from Bangkok to visit her daughter. It is always nice to see her and even better to watch them together. Kook can’t get here every month, but it is amazing that Gail remembers her at her very young age. It is so true that a girl and her mother have a very special bond.
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Regular readers will know what I’m like by now – if I’m not writing my books or talking to you like this, I’m reorganizing my files or trying to improve them, but writing my books has to take priority.
So, I haven’t been posting much recently because I’ve been busy with Behind The Smile 6, but after completing chapter six yesterday, I have come to an impasse, therefore I turned to amalgamating the first five of my Megan Series into a compilation.
This will probably be called ‘Megan the Psychic Teenager’, and will make it 55,000 words long. It is a different format from the single books, which I had hoped people would buy on a monthly basis (and still do 🙂 ). They will still be available singly as they are written, but will also be compiled into a volume once every five months. It will allow those who have come to the series late to catch up more quickly.
Please let me know if you think that this is the right way to go.
I have content for the first four volumes, and writing two more novelettes will give me a fifth.
Taking about writing my books, NaNoWriMo 2015 is just around the corner. It starts on November 1st, so if you are planning a book, bear it in mind. For anyone who has always wanted to write a book, NaNo is the ideal time, you will never get more encouragement and support, and you will make friendships locally that could last forever. This will be my third NaNo and I am looking forward to it immensely, although I don’t know yet what I will be writing about.
Any suggestions?
I enjoy writing my books and am lucky that I have that I have twenty-four hours a day to devote to it, minus a few hours sleep, because my wife, Neem, takes care of me so well.
Oh, one last point! I realized today (only because something someone asked me a month ago has sifted through my brain), that I have a massive advertising opportunity on my blog. Every page carries seven ads for random books out of my bookshop, with 90-100k pageviews a month, that means about 700,000 books are shown on my site free every month!
Did I say free?
Yes, free to those who have bought a classified ad in my bookshop, which costs $5 a month for one book, or $15 for four books for two months, or less than $2 a month a book!
Check it out if you have books or artwork to sell.
I have been working on the computer problems caused by Microsoft Office’s reinstallment all day, but I fear that it will take quite some time to replace all the little refinements I had built into my versions of the office suite over the last eighteen years.
As an aside, when going to type in the word ‘problems’ above, I noticed that the letter ‘p’ has disappeared from my Kindle’s keyboard in landscape view but it is there in portrait. I don’t know, my computing world has been turned upside down in the last month what with Google’s and Amazon’s forced site changes and now my hardware and software malfunctions.
I swear that I haven’t had so many computer problems in such a short space of time since I started computing thirty-three years ago.
Still, where would I be without a computer and the Internet? Stuck in my home town, I guess, whereas with them I am in sunny Thailand writing books and novels, which I very much enjoy doing. I often wonder whether I would ever have started writing that first novel if I hadn’t been in Thailand. It’s about Thai bar girls after all, so I think that the chances are against it. The encouragement I received from my brother, Rhys, spurred me on to write the sequel and now I have written thirty-eight novels and factual books, plus ninety-nine ‘How To’s…’
Which reminds me, I really should get the hundredth written to round the number off.
Therefore, now I am looking for a literary agent to help me find a publisher, who will take the distribution of my books to a new level and so increase awareness of them and hopefully also improve sales figures.
That’s the master plan anyway, while I hand the nitty-gritty of the recent spate of computer problems that is plaguing me.
If I don’t mention the temperature for a while, it’s because it is still in the forty-five to forty-seven range. I have slept nearly all day today because of it, and people assure me that I am not the only one the weather is affecting like that. Writing has become a thing of the past 🙁
It is just so out of character, I am known for sleeping only four or five hours a night, which has always been a cause of concern to my wife who needs eight or nine, but likes to go to bed at nine thirty.
The sequel to ‘Tiger Lily of Bangkok’ http://tigerlilyofbangkok.com was published two weeks ago and received it’s first review today (a good one 🙂 ), which you can read on Amazon.com if you are thinking of reading it. In this volume, she is in London, and becomes incensed when she learns of the infamous ‘meat rack’ on Piccadilly Circus.
I have promised to write at least one more ‘Behind The Smile’, number six, but I think I will write another Lily this year as well. People like her, but it is awkward, because their conscience tells them they shouldn’t. I like that, but then I like her too and like writing about her.
Some books are funny like that for both readers and writers, you become attached to (some of) the characters. They speak to you – quite literally in the case of many authors. A lot of writers will swear that the characters dictate the book to them. I have experienced this with all of my novels. It is a strange experience, and with Lek in BTS1, I had to cut her off with the promise of writing a sequel.
Quite a few readers have noticed that that first volume ends abruptly. The assume that it is a cliff-hanger ending, but that was not the intention, it just worked out that way. I stopped ‘Daddy’s Hobby’ at 112k words, but the series is now five times that length – 560,000 words!
On the other hand, compiling a book of short stories is not the same, because there is no personal continuity, but it is a worthwhile project and at least two contributors have never seen their work in print before, so they should get a buzz out of that and, hopefully, the impetus to carry on writing.
Thanks again to all who have submitted a story, the book is now 53% full, so you still have time to send something in.
I have received a few snide remarks from some miserable sods concerning the designation of the revenue from ‘Asian Shorts’, well, let me tell you miserable sods a true story.
Many members of my family give £5 a month to help ‘an unfortunate, Third World child’. I can think of at least four at the moment, so that is a total donation of about £200 a year, of which about £50 gets to the person it is intended for.
Now, here’s a fact, like it or not, but £50 a year does not go very far at all, even in a Third World country, whether you are trying to feed, clothe a child or send it to university. £120 a weekly is a lot closer to the mark for a decent education. For four years, and I have tried to make that by writing books as I have no other source of income and may not work here.
Likewise, my wife may not join me in the UK, if I went home to live, because the stupid rule now is that you need an income of £18,000 per annum to support a spouse. So we are well and truly stuck.
All you, miserable sods, you holier-than-thou critics, can stick that in your pipes and smoke it, and perhaps try to mind your own business.
∞
I feel better after saying that. Anyway, it’s a degree less today at forty-five Celsius, but it’s hard to tell the difference and still no signs of the monsoon that is doubtless on its way to reduce the temperature by ten degrees. I thought I’d seen signs of it a few days ago, but there you are, I’m a falang (white foreigner), so what do I know?
∞
We have two days off from Gail, as the other grandmother wanted to have her. Usually, she comes back confused by the change of routines (I suppose), but it gives my wife a break and a chance to catch up on the things she no longer seems to have time for – mainly socialising and the garden, I think, but she misses Gail all the same.
∞
More promises for ‘Asian Shorts’, but no more deliveries as yet.
Perhaps tomorrow, but as my wife is fond of singing, ‘Tomorrow never comes’, she has never noticed the fist two words of the line, and I have never pointed them out to her, since her version seems apt too.
Me finishing Dead Centre II, my latest novel. Photo by David Taylor
Dead Centre II is Finished
I have always thought that photos like this were posed, but this one honestly wasn’t. I was on the point of finishing, Dead Centre II, my latest novel at my usual watering hole, when my friend David Taylor came to visit.
“Don’t say a word,” I whispered only one sentence to go and I’ve finished my latest novel.” Anyway, he sat down, kept stumm, and took this just as I was finishing. It was great timing If he had gone in to order a beer before coming over, he would have missed it. A second after this photo was taken, I looked up and said “Dead Centre II’ is finished!”
Happy Saint David’s Day to all you who are reading this on the day it was written or any number of years to the day later . March 1st is the Patron Saint of Wales’ Day, for all those of you who don’t know – the majority, I suspect.
I’m glad it’s St. David’s Day, it gives me something else to celebrate – yesterday’s excuse was finishing my book – because, finishing a book like that leaves an empty feeling behind with me. I imagine it’s like any big project, it consumes most of your thought for the duration and when it’s finished… then what?
As an indie author, the answer is simple, read it and edit it, then reread and re-edit it, then put it up for sale and market it. However, that is not as satisfying as writing the thing. Like riding a horse is more exciting than polishing the tack. I want to get on with the next one, but that would be stupid at this moment in time. First the editing and marketing of this one has to be done – if you can say that you are ever done with marketing. That’s an on-going, permanent feature of my life from now on.
Besides that, I don’t have an idea for a new novel, although I want to write a sequel to ‘Tiger Lily of Bangkok‘ later in the year. This happens from time to time, although I have a simple cure. I have written a series of novellas that I call the ‘Megan Series‘ (see the header of this page for details). Whenever, I get stuck like this, I write one or more of them until a satisfactory idea reveals itself to me. The fact that there are twenty-one novellas in the series so far does not mean that I am often stuck though 🙂
Looking out of the window before me in my office yesterday, I noticed that a root in one of the tree stumps my wife uses for growing orchids in, has transformed itself into the head of a sleek-looking dog’s head and neck. Can you see it as well? It looks as if she has spotted something at two o’ clock
Dog’s Head in old Stump’s Roots
By the way, that is not an old po in there next to the dog (clue), it is an as-yet-unused flower pot. I will admit, that as I am writing this, I cannot see the head in the photo – it is too small – still perhaps you can, but the flower pot looks more and more like a chamber pot.
It is nearly time for my daily visit to Jem’s shop around the corner – immortalised in my series ‘Behind the Smile‘ as Nong’s, so I’m signing off for today, but taking my brand-, spanking-new manuscript with me to read over my couple of beer Changs (Thailand’s most popular beer) and very nice they are too.
Anyway, I’m happy that Dead Centre II is finished, now I only have to sell a few copies 🙂
PS: Someone returned a ‘Dead Centre’ to Amazon yesterday – the first one ever. I like to think they bought it, copied it and are now going to pirate it, rather than that they didn’t like it, but that book is rather gory, I have to admit, but then suicide bombing necessarily is.
PPS: the ‘+’ before my name above is pandering to Google’s inefficiencies – they won’t recognise me without it 🙁
A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger, and One Scary Mother!
by Ceri Carpenter
Review by Owen Jones
I have read all eleven titles in the Megan Series so far, so I will review the series as a whole rather than just each individual book. The series opens with ‘The Misconception’, which may seem like a strange title until you have read it.
‘The Misconception’ actually sets the story for the rest of the series, which should really be read in sequence, but it is not absolutely necessary, although reading this one first is best really.
It opens with Megan, a young girl, locked in the coal hole ‘for being naughty’, although most sane people would not agree with her mother that she was naughty, or that the punishment fitted the crime, if indeed one had been committed.
We learn that this is not the first time she has been locked in that dark, dirty, scary cellar, but some friends come to console her, namely her familiar, a ghost tiger called Grrr and her deceased grandfather.
Despite her mother’s cruelness, Megan feels a special bond wither her, so she doesn’t tell her father what is going on. He suspects nothing.
The last chapter of the book, each book or novella, in fact, has Megan’s Spirit Guide giving her advice on how to become a better, stronger person, with lessons on how to develop her psychic powers, a subject that has interested Megan for years, despite her tender age. It is also the cause of her imprisonment.
In the following novellas, Megan finds herself in all sorts of common, everyday situations, but her take on them is far from average. Each story can be read alone, but the reason why she is like she is comes from ‘The Misconception’ which is why it should be read first.
The other ten novellas include Megan at school, on an outing, on holiday, being bullied, having a birthday, et cetera, et cetera, all charming little stories that can be read on several levels, although sensitive Catholics may not like them much.
Carpenter has promised one new novella every month and I believe that a twelfth is being written now.
Great Spirit, whose voice is on the wind, hear me. Let me grow in strength and knowledge.
Make me ever behold the red and purple sunset. May my hands respect the things you have given me.
Teach me the secrets hidden under every leaf and stone, as you have taught people for ages past.
Let me use my strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy – myself.
Let me always come before you with clean hands and an open heart, that as my Earthly span fades like the sunset, my Spirit shall return to you without shame.
This is an truncated version of a Sioux prayer I found in my father’s automatic writings.
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Megan is a 13-year-old teenage girl, who realises that she has psychic powers that others do not have. At first, she tried to talk to her mother about them, but with disastrous consequences, so she learned to keep quiet about them.
However, some people do offer to help and an animal showed a special friendship, but they were not ‘alive’ in the normal sense of the word. They had passed on.
Megan has three such friends: Wacinhinsha, her Spirit Guide, who had been Sioux in his last life on Earth; her maternal grandfather, Gramps and a huge Siberian tiger called Grrr.
Wacinhinsha is extremely knowledgeable in all things spiritual, psychic and paranormal; her grandfather is a novice ‘dead person’ and Grrr can only speak Tiger, as one might imagine and most of that, of course is unintelligible to humans.
This book is about Megan’s psychic development which continues in subsequent novellas in ‘The Megan Series’.
At the time of writing this, there are seven books in the series, and I will start number eight, ‘Megan Faces Derision’ this evening.
Other title are:
‘Megan’s Thirteenth’; ‘Megan’s School Trip’; ‘Megan’s School Exams’; ‘Megan’s Followers’; ‘Megan and the Lost Cat’, and, ‘Megan and the Mayoress’. all of which can be purchased for $2.99 each on Amazon (see the link below)
