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Michelle read IN MY DREAMS on her site and had some questions. I'm answering! How did you come up with your paranormal concept for In My Dreams? Did you do a lot of research into the paranormal or did the story just come to you? I've always loved paranormal. So nope, I didn't do lots of research. What I didn't know already, I made up! Have you ever had a paranormal experience? If no, do you believe in them? I'm healthily agnostic--don't particularly deny anything, but how the heck do I know what's what? But I'm open to have whatever proven to me. I've had experiences, such as a rare dream that's come true, but that could be coincidence. I had a fright when I was younger (pre-teen) over a Ouija board. I'm pleased to say that even when I was that young, if I saw anything moving on its own without anybody touching it, it got immediately thrown into the dumpster. My tolerance for weird horror movie type shit is close to nil. Maybe there's something out there. I'm not sure. But I'm fairly sure that if there is something out there, I probably don't want to know about it. I enjoyed Bless' asskicking of demons and I would've loved to have read more. Is there more? I get the impression you created a very complex world and In My Dreams is just the tip of the iceberg. There's lots more.

I'm writing more paranormal romances about how the couples who are destined to bear the Chosen meet and fall in love. At least one and sometimes both of the people in the couple have realized their paranormal abilities so they can protect their offspring. Love's Potion is about one of these couples. The heroine of Love's Potion is Jasmine Flynn from The Look of Love. Bless and Carmel both appear in this novel. Love's Potion does reveal more of the underpinnings of this mythology, but again not all. The focus is on the love story, but with each book more of the world I created is exposed. Maybe one day I'll write about the battles for world domination between the Chosen and the demons at the end of the next World War. Your 'demonology' is unique. I liked how demons were more a metaphysical threat than a physical one. It was subtle and intriguing as opposed to the plethora of shape-changing, bloodsucking monsters in prevalent paranormal fiction today. How did you develop that particular angle in your story? I make it all up. I'm a devotee of Buffy and popular demon lore, but I'm not the type to jump on a bandwagon. I asked myself, would demons want you to know of their existence? If we knew for a fact that demons existed, wouldn't that profoundly change the tenor of this technological/corporate/political world? We mainly now worship things such as money, power and fame. If we knew for a fact that numbers of demons were around, wouldn't there be a heck of a lot more people wholeheartedly putting their fairth in God and spiritual things rather than the things of the world or secular forms of godly devotions? It seems if there are really such a thing as demons, they would be invested in keeping their presence mostly unknown. Their threat would be more subtle, and indeed metaphysical. The only monsters really running around are human and they don't shapeshift. So I put demons on a spiritual plane--the astral--where they can't directly affect humans or the physical plane as humans can't directly affect the astral. Even the Bible says that the fallen angels were prohibited from materializing human bodies and procreating with humans after the Flood. Angels and the Supreme Deity don't directly affect human outcomes either because of the gift (or curse) of human free will. Demons can only work through people. They refer to magic practitioners and sorcerers as "tools." The practice of such arts opens humans to subtle demon influence. What demons fear most is that humans discover their existence in addition to discovering that we are dual beings, able to traverse and affect substance of the spiritual planes through actions of our souls, or spirit bodies. Humans are actually more powerful than demons, but are generally unaware of this. Demons want world supremacy. They consider humans akin to cockroaches, fecund and disgusting, making a mess and dropping peices of themselves off where ever they go. The ultimate war will be between humans and demons. The Chosen are being born now. The Chosen aren't inherently different from other people, but unlike other humans, they innately recognize and use their natural powers and abilities--and can see demons. The Chosen are the most profound threat the demons have ever faced. Demons are determined and desperate to kill the the Chosen when they're most vulnerable--as children. The parents these children also have come to recognize the existence of demons and have the ability to protect their offspring. There is also a mythology that goes with this that explains the other magical peoples who once held dominion over the earth, genies, fairies, unicorns, elves, trolls and the like. The hero of Love's Potion is a genie. How did you end up living in Kansas?Both my parents were born here. (Is there any other reason why people live in Kansas? I dunno). Many of my great or great-greats were Exodusters and migrated here after slavery. Some established rural family farms and others moved by the cattle drive and meat processing communities where there was work. I left Kansas when young and returned after my divorce. I stay here because it's cheap and I like to be able to write and have food and shelter at the same time. Did I mention that if anyone wants to donate a house to me in Vancouver, I'm so there.