Inspiration for Star Rider on the Razor’s Edge

The idea for Star Rider on the Razor’s Edge came in a most amazing and unusual manner. One Thursday night I had an action-packed dream that was like watching a futuristic science fiction movie in full color. It included spacecraft, war, spies, aliens, romance and sorcerers. At the time I had small children, but fortunately it was a three-day weekend and my husband was home to watch them so I could write the dream down.

That Friday night I had another dream that was a continuation of the same story. Again I wrote it down. Then Saturday night the same thing happened. But on Sunday night I didn’t dream about it, which was just as well since my husband left for work early in the morning and it would have been a challenge to write it down while watching my children. I didn’t have any further dreams for the next three nights.

The next weekend was another three-day holiday and over those three nights I dreamed the second half of the story. The entire dream filled ninety pages in my dream journal. I remember thinking, “What a great story! It’s too bad I’m not a writer.” The dream story was so exciting and fun that it inspired me to become a writer. I spent the next few years learning how to write and turning the dream into a novel.

After the first book it was as if I’d turned on a faucet to a creative waterfall. A series of books flowed out as I continued to write about the same heroes, their adventures and the distant planets they lived on.

I’m happy to finally be publishing Star Rider on the Razor’s Edge and plan to publish the next book in the series in 2015. It’s exciting to finally be able to share these characters and their story with the world. I hope you enjoy reading the story nearly as much as I did dreaming and writing it.

Dreams turned out to be my doorway into the Inner Worlds and to developing my creative potential.