I loved speaking on the phone with Nancy Cole Silverman. She's not only beautiful inside & out, but an amazing Author!
Bio:
Nancy Cole Silverman spent nearly twenty-five in Los Angeles Talk Radio, beginning her career on the
talent side as one for the first female voices on the air, to the business side, where she retired as one of
two female general managers in the nation’s second-largest radio market. After a successful career in the
radio industry, Silverman turned to writing fiction. Her crime-focused novels and short stories have
attracted readers throughout America. Silverman writes the Carol Childs Mysteries and coming this fall,
The Misty Dawn Mysteries, both with Henery Press. Silverman lives in Los Angeles with her husband and
Ali, her thoroughly pampered standard poodle.
1). Tell me about your book. What is it about?
At first glance, The House on Hallowed Ground is a story about Misty Dawn, a former Hollywood psychic to the stars, who at seventy-plus, has found herself on hard times and in order to support herself, has been forced to rehang her shingle and get back in the game. This after a lifetime of riding high; reading the fortunes of the rich and famous, and being credible enough to have been called to work with both the FBI and LAPD on homicide investigations. Psychics can’t read themselves, and Misty, being a tender touch, never put aside enough for retirement, and as the book opens we find her not only reading the fortunes of others but caught up in the middle of a murder investigation that may well threaten her own life.
While The House on Hallowed Ground is a soft-boiled mystery centered on the death of a young starlet, it is also about reinvention and faith in the beyond and our ability to open ourselves up to new opportunities at any age.
2. What inspired you to write your book?
I was inspired to write this particular book after losing someone close to me. I’ve always felt life didn’t end with our last breath. That life and death occupy equally specific dimensions, and that there was no reason why we might not be able to appreciate the existences of a dimension beyond that within which live.
3. Who would be interested in reading your book?
I think a lot of people believe in a spiritual world regardless of their religious upbringing or affiliations. In fact, when I started thinking about crafting the Misty Dawn series, I spoke with numerous people who were enthusiastic about their experiences and feelings on the subject. These conversations helped me to think of Misty as more of an intuitive than psychic. She’s not a card dealing, crystal Ball reading clairvoyant. She’s more of an intuitive, an ability to read a subject’s mind along with those of the spirits surrounding that subject.
3. What was the most interesting or unusual thing you learned when researching your book?
For research, I interviewed a number of psychics. Not to be read, but to ask about the types of people who visited them and the questions they were most frequently asked. If anything, I came away skeptical about their abilities. I think there are a lot of charlatans out there, but there were some that gave me pause. As to whether they possessed some true psychic ability, I don’t know. I leave that to the reader to decide. I have no answers, only the creation of a character that wouldn’t leave me alone until I wrote about her.
4. What sets your book apart from others?
As to how Misty Dawn is different from other psychics? She doesn’t use cards or tea leaves. She could if you wanted, but for her a reading is the result of our energies; that we carry with us every day, and from which she can read.
5. The House on Hallowed Ground debuts Tuesday, September 10th and is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and most major online and in-store retailers.
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Nancy Cole Silverman's realization that she and Edgar Allen Poe shared the same birthday sparked her lifelong interest in mystery fiction. After a very successful career in the radio industry she turned to writing, and her crime-focused novels and short stories have attracted readers throughout America. Her Carol Childs Mysteries series (Henery Press) features a single-mom whose "day job" as a reporter at a busy Los Angeles radio station often leads to long nights as a crime-solver. Silverman lives in Los Angeles with her husband and a thoroughly pampered standard poodle.
My book review:
Majestic Misty
I love this story, it takes you away to California where secrets unfold, and a well known psychic is involved in discovering the mystery.
This story takes place in California, with a psychic Misty that moves into a home with a shade named Wilson. Full of mystery, suspense, and a real who-done-it! Just when I thought I knew who the killer was, I was wrong again. The ending is very surreal and embraces your soul with the after-life.
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