And Then I Did a Different Kind of Research

My next book was a mystery--sort of. I had to decide what kind of book to write and because I read so many mysteries that was my choice. I say sort of, because my idea was to add a touch of the supernatural. Not sure where the thought of using astral projection came from though I had dreamed about doing it--however not in the way it happens to my heroine in this book. As a child, she used the ability to leave her body to avoid the abuse she received at the hands of her mother's boy friend. As a young woman, a trigger brings back the ability, but she has no control over it. In order to find out what astral projection was like, I researched it by reading many books on the subject. I think I did a pretty good job, because after it was published, my publisher arranged for me to be interviews on the radio in Bakersfield. One of the callers told me that he knew I'd experienced astral projection because it seemed so real. I thanked up, but didn't tell him what I knew about the p