Goddess of the Wild Thing by Paul DeBlassie III

Please welcome Paul DeBlassie III author of Goddess of the Wild Thing

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Goddess of the Wild Thing

by Paul DeBlassie III

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GENRE: Thriller

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INTERVIEW:

1. What or who inspired you to start writing? By age sixteen, I’d read Jung and Freud and decided I wanted to become a psychologist and writer.

2. How did you come up with ideas for your books? Life experience and psychotherapy drama inform my thrillers, dramatize real conflict and pain, horror and the potential for transformation.

3. What expertise did you bring to your writing? Over thirty years as a writer and psychotherapist, lend a perspective that many find intriguing and mind altering.

5. As far as your writing goes, what are your future plans? The Goddess of Everythingis set for release in 2020, a metaphysical thriller of mother love gone bad and the need to break free!

6. If you could be one of the characters from any of your books, who would it be and why? The old medicine women in The Unholy andGoddess of the Wild Thinghave vital lessons to learn about natural magic, healing, and the power of limits. I wouldn’t want to be them, but I want to learn life’s message to healers.

10. What is the best and worst advice you ever received? (regarding writing or publishing) If you feel it, start now and do it! William James, father of American depth psychology, inspired the words and their meaning. They’re a guiding light for me in therapy and writing.

11. Do you outline your books or just start writing? An idea springs to mind then, if it lingers over months and sometimes years, I hit the page running and word after word, sentences and paragraphs a story is birthed. Then comes the cleanup – edits, edits, edits, etc. As we all know, the writing is in the rewriting!

12. Do you have any hobbies and does the knowledge you’ve gained from these carry over into your characters or the plot of your books? I love hiking the New Mexico wilderness, scenes of the otherworldly beauty and uncanny happenings lace themselves through my metaphysical thrillers.

13. Do you have an all time favorite book? The Complete John Silence Storiesranks as my all- time favorite classic in the realm of metaphysical fiction, tales of deep places of mind and supernatural wonders.

19. Anything else you might want to add? I love being on your romance blog especially since at the heart of every compelling tale is the human drama of what loving and being loved is all about.

BLURB:

Winner of the Independent Press Award and the NYC Big Book Award for Visionary Fiction!

Eve Sanchez, a scholar of esoteric studies, is driven into unreal dimensions of horror and hope as she encounters a seductive and frightening man, criminal lawyer Sam Shear.

Sam introduces Eve to a supernatural world in which the wicked powers of a surrogate mother’s twisted affection threaten love and life. Struggling to sort through right from wrong, frightened yet determined, Eve nears despair.

Goddess of the Wild Thing reveals the dramatic tale of one woman’s spiritual journey where metaphysical happenings, unexpected turns of fate, and unseen forces impact her ability to love and be loved.

In the magical realm of Aztlan del Sur, a mythopoeic land of hidden horrors and guiding spirits, Eve, with three friends and a wise old woman, is caught in an age-old struggle about love—whether bad love is better than no love— and discovers that love is a wild thing.

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EXCERPT:

Eve sharpened her focus. She saw the sharp nail of a witch’s right finger tracing Graciéla’s image on a foggy mirror in a grungy bathroom, touching the center of the mirror with a hatred so intense, the glass burned red hot. The mirror in Graciéla’s kitchen cracked. Shards jettisoned at the old healer then were magically warded off and drifted in place about her head and neck.

Graciéla’s energy, tired as she was, had fended off the pointed shards. She hadn’t been impaled. But the strain had ushered her from one world to the next. Death came not by the hand of another but by a weakened mind and body defending itself.

Eve, shaken, allowed her soft touch to stay on Graciéla’s forehead, confirming the horror of what she’d seen. Shamanic wisdom, often discussed between the two kindred souls, spoke to Eve as she stroked her friend’s head, remembering that death provided passage for one whose life had been well spent and whose time had come.

Eve wept.

After a few moments, she closed her friend’s green eyes and whispered tenderly, “Always my friend, always love, always together in life and in death.” She stood and wiped the tears from her eyes. A gray-brown, green-eyed, great horned owl hooted from the largest cottonwood branch outside the back window.

Eve heard Shirley finishing her call to the EMTs and police, and then walking to the front of the store to await their arrival.

One large shard lay at the end of the table, sharp tip pointed outward. It reflected Eve’s image, a glowing red ember menacingly centered at the brow point.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Paul DeBlassie III, Ph.D. is a depth psychologist and award-winning writer living in his native New Mexico. He specializes in treating individuals in emotional and spiritual crisis. His novels, visionary thrillers, delve deep into archetypal realities as they play out dramatically in the lives of everyday people. Memberships include the Author’s Guild, Visionary Fiction Alliance, Depth Psychology Alliance, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and the International Association for Jungian Studies.

Website: pauldeblassieiii.com

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Goddess-Wild-Thing-Paul-DeBlassie-ebook/dp/B07656JLNR/ref=sr_1_1

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