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Interview/Excerpt
http://www.fearlessbooks.com/Spotlight3.htm
After falling out of an Ohio hayloft one day in 1922, Aaron Burke hit the hard ground far below and lay still for a moment. The other farmhands gathered around as Aaron got up and brushed himself off, assuring everyone that he felt fine. There was just one problem: they were all talking about how dead he looked.
He kept trying to tell them that he was really all right until he followed their gaze to look at his body, still lying prone on the ground:
At first, I didn’t realize it was me — the head twisted at a forty-five degree angle, eyes wide open and mouth ready to cry out. But the clothes were mine, and I shaved each day with the help of a reflecting glass, so I knew what I looked like.
With horror, I lowered my gaze to the arms and legs and trunk I stood in now, separate from the body on the ground, yet still intact. I didn’t understand.
Thus begins Aaron’s Crossing: A True Ghost Story, in which Michigan author Linda Alice Dewey presents one of the most unusual ‘as told to’ memoirs ever written. Both spooky and redemptive, this double autobiography of Aaron Burke’s life on earth and his afterlife in the “Second Layer” has the uncanny ring of truth. Written mostly in Aaron’s voice with Dewey’s opening and closing commentaries telling how she came to meet this ghost, establish communication, and eventually help him “cross over,” this independently published work shines with a spare yet evocative prose style that takes the reader right into the ghostly realm with a compelling sense of first-hand authenticity.
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Bio:
http://www.lindaalicedewey.com/personal/bio.htm
About ...
Linda Alice Dewey
Linda Alice Dewey was born into a family with a metaphysical belief system that did not include ghosts. In 1987, she began exploring New Age metaphysics, commencing a fresh spiritual journey. She developed spiritual skills, which include high spiritual listening, psychometry, mediumship, face reading and general readings.
An award-winning writer and composer in school, Dewey taught music, art and remedial reading for nearly twenty years. She’s been a guest writer for local newspapers and an E-zine for writers. In the 1980’s, she wrote and produced music jingles for radio and television in Michigan and Arizona. No stranger to the stage, she’s been in musical and theatrical productions all her life. A versatile singer, she continues to sing music varying varies from classical (as a legitimate mezzo soprano) to rock and blues.
Photograph by: Sue Woodward
Dewey co-facilitates a spiritual listening group in Glen Arbor where she resides—just a mile from the wooded cemetery where she first encountered the ghost of Aaron Burke. She also teaches workshops at metaphysical bookstores. Her current projects include adapting AARON'S CROSSING to the stage in a PHANTOM-like musical with original music. She has two grown sons and a daughter-in-law.
While AARON'S CROSSING is her first book, her other announced project is a screenplay about the Kassel Mission, the greatest Air Force bomber group loss of life during World War II.
Linda can be contacted via email at linda@lindaalicedewey.com.
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