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"A thick slice of MaryAnn Easley pie. Oozing UFOs, sweet on science, and warm with fantasy. This veteran children's writer's many young fans should be satiated.....for now!"

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

TIME TO PARTY!

If there's a good time to celebrate, it's upon completing a difficult writing project. My latest novel took a long, long time to finish. While my previous books took 2-3 years,  CHANGED IN THE NIGHT took more than six. Why? 

First of all, this story is complicated. It takes place in 1952 after UFOs appear over the White House, but the backstory
begins December 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. On that day, her sixth birthday, Allana Odette accidentally kills her twin brother in a duel while playing war. 

Over ten years later, Allana is considered unstable. Still suffering from grief, she claims to see her dead brother who taunts her into dangerous games so that it becomes difficult for Allana to separate her dreams from reality. She's a bit like her uncle, a pilot who chased a UFO and had to retire from the Air Force in disgrace; therefore, when Allana is visited by aliens and brutally marked, she is disbelieved and diagnosed with AIWS, the little known Aluce in Wonderland Syndrome.

Okay, all that took research. But that's not all. There are the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II, the lifestyle and attitudes of 1952, the psychology, philosophy, and politics of the time, the Cold War and the arms race, the different views of religion and science, the theories about energy, interconnectedness, time, space, and other dimensions.  All of that had to be studied and included in the story.

A forest Allana paints on the walls of her room to keep Jack out inadvertently opens a portal to other dimensions while an ancient oak is where the story of Alon, a mythical land the twins created as children, begins and ends. And, of course, there's Allana's abduction, her stay in a mental facility, the paranoia and. . . well, you get the idea. In painting a world where nothing is as it seems, I created an incredible journey for myself and my protagonist.

So now that I've pulled all these threads together, my friends, family, students, fellow writers, co-workers, editors, supporters, creative souls, and readers are joining me to celebrate another milestone in my writing career.


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