by Sandy Nathan
Was that dream all that prompted the book series, Tales from Earth’s End? No. When I write, I experience a repeated and sometimes violent cracking of everyday reality. The mundane world shatters so that a truer, larger voice can speak. What causes this rupture? Pain, mostly.
A few months before I had the dream, my brother died unexpectedly and tragically. My grief wrote The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy. As I remembered our life together, I wanted to give my brother a tribute that captured his essence. My unconscious did the rest. Many of the themes of The Angel have particular meaning to my brother and me.
That was how Tales from Earth’s End was born. The tales are stories of human beings pushed to their extremity, literally to the end of the earth. They come from my depths being jostled and torn, wounded. Writing was the cure.
I wrote the first draft of The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy in five weeks. When I finished, the sequel was burning inside me. I wrote that. And then the sequel to the sequel. This was somewhat inconvenient, as I was working on the sequel to my novel, Numenon, and people were writing to me, asking when it would be out. Creative process waits for no one; I knew I’d better take the material that was being given to me before it fled. Readers can be assured that Books Two and Three of Tales from Earth’s End are well along. They’ll be in print shortly. And so will Numenon’s sequel.
But now I invite you to join me and meet The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy.
“Creativity is the thread that binds the various parts of my life and gives me meaning. I’m happiest when some inspiration has me by the teeth and I’m producing flat out.” For the past fifteen years, Sandy Nathan has been passionate about writing, and praise has come to her in the form of multiple national writing awards. Over the years, whether working as an economic analyst, negotiation coach, or designer, Sandy Nathan has always been involved in the arts. “I work best when I’m using both halves of my brain, the artistic and the logical. When I was a graduate student in economics, for instance, I spent almost equal time producing and showing sculpture.” Sandy lives with her husband on their California ranch and is the mother of three grown children. She has two grandchildren.
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Coming soon from author Sandy Nathan—
LADY GRACE
TALES FROM EARTH’S END, BOOK TWO
First there was Numenon of the Bloodsong Series, a 20th century tale of spirituality and mysticism. Then came The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy, which took readers to the edge of a planet’s extinction. Now Jeremy, Eliana, and their friends are joined by Bud Creeman and Wesley Silverhorse in exploits that bridge times and realities.
In this world of the future much time has passed—but has it been enough to create a better world?
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