Comments on: Facing Darkness http://www.hamptonroadspub.com/blog/2006/08/28/facing-darkness/ News, notes, updates, and insights from the editors and staff of Hampton Roads Publishing Company Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:08:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dawn of "Love is there..." http://www.hamptonroadspub.com/blog/2006/08/28/facing-darkness/#comment-24 Dawn of "Love is there..." Sat, 02 Sep 2006 17:05:11 +0000 http://www.hamptonroadspub.com/blog/2006/08/28/facing-darkness/#comment-24 'ello! :) Yes! Ditto on what Stephen said. :) I would love to read more fantasy/thrillers of this variety! (Yes, okay, I'm a budding writer myself...let's just get that right out there in the open right away :) I was just wondering to myself recently how little fiction there is on these subjects - the What Dreams May Come's and the Jonathan Livingston Seagulls seem to have gone out with the 70's... There's a TON out there of non-fiction in this area of interesting - a veritable explosion! But where's the fiction? The power of the story is so compelling... it allows you to suspend your own beliefs and judgements for a while and place yourself in the shoes of the characters...and feel what its like to be them, from their point of view, for a while. No apologies, no explanations, just plain experience - but not your own. A very valuable teacher for helping one get out of their own box. I was, by the way, raised on Jonathan Livingston Seagull. My mom read it to me before I could even really understand what she was saying, and it was the first book I ever read on my own. I have a ton of copies, one of them signed...and still believe to the core of my being in the power of a story. :) *hugs!* - Dawn ‘ello! :)

Yes! Ditto on what Stephen said. :) I would love to read more fantasy/thrillers of this variety! (Yes, okay, I’m a budding writer myself…let’s just get that right out there in the open right away :)

I was just wondering to myself recently how little fiction there is on these subjects - the What Dreams May Come’s and the Jonathan Livingston Seagulls seem to have gone out with the 70’s… There’s a TON out there of non-fiction in this area of interesting - a veritable explosion! But where’s the fiction?

The power of the story is so compelling… it allows you to suspend your own beliefs and judgements for a while and place yourself in the shoes of the characters…and feel what its like to be them, from their point of view, for a while. No apologies, no explanations, just plain experience - but not your own. A very valuable teacher for helping one get out of their own box.

I was, by the way, raised on Jonathan Livingston Seagull. My mom read it to me before I could even really understand what she was saying, and it was the first book I ever read on my own. I have a ton of copies, one of them signed…and still believe to the core of my being in the power of a story. :)

*hugs!*
- Dawn

]]> By: Stephen Hurley http://www.hamptonroadspub.com/blog/2006/08/28/facing-darkness/#comment-13 Stephen Hurley Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:25:23 +0000 http://www.hamptonroadspub.com/blog/2006/08/28/facing-darkness/#comment-13 Dear Frank DeMarco: I love your list and am writing to personally thank you for offering a perfect marriage between faith, well documented psychic phenomena, and Science. The question I have is this: Do you have a fiction department? And if not, why not. Because I would love to read more quality fatansy/thrillers which you'd be perfect for. Sincerely, Stephen Hurley, OFM Dear Frank DeMarco:

I love your list and am writing to personally thank you for offering a perfect marriage between faith, well documented psychic phenomena, and Science.

The question I have is this: Do you have a fiction department? And if not, why not. Because I would love to read more quality fatansy/thrillers which you’d be perfect for.

Sincerely,

Stephen Hurley, OFM

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