Notes Upon The Wildwind

Here’s the official press release:

Changing Planes: a Metaphysical Fiction by author Laurie J. Brenner was named Finalist in the Fiction and Literature: New Age Fiction category by The National “Best Book 2009 Awards” October 18, 2009, and together with award finalists and winners from the nation’s top publishers and independent presses in the 2009 USA BEST BOOKS AWARDS.

Brenner was joined by thousands of contestants with books published by top publishing firms of Simon & Schuster, Penguin, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons, as well of hundreds of independent houses.

Changing Planes is a contemporary new age tale where you journey with Madison Reeves, a business executive, on a spiritual journey of the heart.  Madison, who avoids intimacy as if it were a disease, won’t admit to herself that it is her own heart that truly terrifies her: for buried there are painful secrets.

Escaping on a Bahamas vacation, Madison discovers that there is another force at work in her life, as odd things happen before she leaves the ground.  After landing in a terminal hung suspended between this world and the next, she is greeted by her long dead grandfather as she disembarks from the plane. It is here in this place between life and death that she must look within her own heart to unveil its secrets if she is to live free and face loved ones from a familiar past and an unfamiliar future.

Will she choose what her heart deeply knows is best?  Or will she turn and run again? Book your journey between worlds today and enjoy a near-cinematic passage that brings you face-to-face with a story your heart reads.

About the author: Brenner a native of San Diego, California, now lives in Northern California, on the western slope of the Sierra just this side of Lake Tahoe on her 10 acre slice of heaven with husband, Gordon, their two dogs, four cats and a myriad of creatures from the visible and invisible realms of nature.  For further information about the author, her availability for interviews, workshops, and books signings, or if you wish to order discounted multiple book copies, please contact her at http://www.ChangingPlanes.net.

Go there now to read the first three chapters of Changing Planes for free.

In this short video that I made for my book, The  Little Book of Becoming, my daughter Rachael  (photo below) sings a cover of Faith Hill’s song Stronger. Though I love music and all the creative arts and I love to sing – trust me when I tell you that if you catch me singing – I will hurt your ears.

I only sing in front of those people who I’ve known a long time, family, or they love me unconditionally, because when I sing, the wild turkeys on our land gobble, the dog howls, and the mother person, the pirate at 81, asks me if I’m hurt in any way or in pain.  Even at 81 she’s still got her sense of humor.  And no, it doesn’t hurt my feelings.  It’s the truth.  I just don’t have the voice for it.

It’s a joke I tell folks – I can do everything but sing.  Like Mary Poppins I am practically perfect in every way – but that.  It’s what keeps me planted with both feet on the ground.  Where I sing is in my paintings and in my writings, stories, blogs, articles, poetry and novellas and my interactions with those I meet.

But Rachael, my baby daughter, who is a mother herself and in her early thirties can sing the socks off of most anyone.  I recently asked her to sing a song for me to make a little video promotion for the Little Book, but alas, right now, she’s got a cold and being the impatient Aries I am, I couldn’t wait.  So I used another song she sang for me one day.  She had bought this new inexpensive microphone for her computer and decided to give it a try.

This is a song she sang for me on a one shot deal – a capella – which is latin for “in the style of the chapel” and refers to singing without independent instrumental accompaniment.

I put some pictures to it and added my quick advert at the end.  So from my heart to yours – through my daughter’s voice – enjoy!

You can find out more about The Little Book of Becoming-Your Primer for Living Inside Out – Your Primer for becoming a Stronger YOU by clicking here:  Go There Now!