What’s meant for you, will find you.
When I was in my early twenties, a psychic at Universal City walk told me I would be writing books. My heart could have exploded on top of her tarot cards because little did she know, becoming a published author was a childhood dream. I was 22 years old at the time.
One day while shopping for a new bed, I saw a painting in the furniture store. The painting which is still at my parents’ house today is of a beautiful cottage in the country with a creek running alongside it. At the time, I read a lot of Jane Austin and I could easily imagine myself being a character in one of her books, living in this cottage. The painting looked magical to me and I felt so drawn to it. So I bought it. I felt like such a grown up buying “art” for my apartment and I couldn’t wait to get home and hang it in my living room.
One morning an idea came to me to write a time travel story where the heroine would find herself at this picturesque cottage. And so the beginnings of my first novel, A Leap In Time, was in motion.
I wrote a chapter here and there, eventually finishing it but I didn’t do anything with it and so the years passed by with this book living on my laptop. A small part of me gave up on the idea of becoming a published author and I truly felt the psychic’s prediction had expired.
Fast forward to 2009, the year I married my best friend Brian. We went to Italy for our honeymoon and spontaneously added Pompeii to one of our stops from Positano to Tuscany. I’m convinced that Divine Intervention was at play because the minute we walked into the walled ruins of the city, I felt this unbelievable pull to a place I never gave much thought to before that moment. Everything about Pompeii felt eerily familiar and sacred and it stayed with me long after we came back to our life in New York. I became obsessed with finding out every little detail. From documentaries to books and later visiting the exhibit in New York, the more I learned the more attached I became. So I rewrote the entire story so the time travel includes Pompeii instead of Jane Austin’s England.
A Leap In Time was published by The Wild Rose Press in 2014.
Dreams have their own timeline. It doesn’t matter that perceived or actual obstacles are in the way. What’s meant for you will find you, no matter how big or audacious that thing is. I’m so glad I didn’t give up or worse, delete the book from my laptop.
Photo credit of Pompeii @pompeii_parco_archeologico
One day while shopping for a new bed, I saw a painting in the furniture store. The painting which is still at my parents’ house today is of a beautiful cottage in the country with a creek running alongside it. At the time, I read a lot of Jane Austin and I could easily imagine myself being a character in one of her books, living in this cottage. The painting looked magical to me and I felt so drawn to it. So I bought it. I felt like such a grown up buying “art” for my apartment and I couldn’t wait to get home and hang it in my living room.
One morning an idea came to me to write a time travel story where the heroine would find herself at this picturesque cottage. And so the beginnings of my first novel, A Leap In Time, was in motion.
I wrote a chapter here and there, eventually finishing it but I didn’t do anything with it and so the years passed by with this book living on my laptop. A small part of me gave up on the idea of becoming a published author and I truly felt the psychic’s prediction had expired.
Fast forward to 2009, the year I married my best friend Brian. We went to Italy for our honeymoon and spontaneously added Pompeii to one of our stops from Positano to Tuscany. I’m convinced that Divine Intervention was at play because the minute we walked into the walled ruins of the city, I felt this unbelievable pull to a place I never gave much thought to before that moment. Everything about Pompeii felt eerily familiar and sacred and it stayed with me long after we came back to our life in New York. I became obsessed with finding out every little detail. From documentaries to books and later visiting the exhibit in New York, the more I learned the more attached I became. So I rewrote the entire story so the time travel includes Pompeii instead of Jane Austin’s England.
A Leap In Time was published by The Wild Rose Press in 2014.
Dreams have their own timeline. It doesn’t matter that perceived or actual obstacles are in the way. What’s meant for you will find you, no matter how big or audacious that thing is. I’m so glad I didn’t give up or worse, delete the book from my laptop. Photo credit of Pompeii @pompeii_parco_archeologico
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