Tapped By Fate is available on Amazon both in paperback and e-book formats. My goal for the coming months in to increase my distribution, but for now, I'm relieved to have this book available for purchase. I had started it 3 times, but each time, the characters wouldn't come to life, and the plot wouldn't gel. I changed the location three times, too. Third time was really the charm on the location, but then I had to ground the metaphysical shop and get those characters to start talking to me, then to each other.

Once they started, I couldn't stop them. The stumbling block at 100 pages fell away. The opening scene stayed intact, but moved to Bush's Pasture Park in Salem. The male character's opening scenes completely changed, and I moved the action to 3 months after the sentinel events. Once I did that, the mists began to subside, and the new characters came onstage, enriching the story and making the book that wouldn't come together into the first in a series I am going to immensely enjoy writing.

Funny how that happens. I read an interview yesterday about a writer who changed from one who would never write an outline to a writer who will not start a book without one. If I had followed my initial (very sketchy) outline, I would never have gotten past those first 100 pages that kept getting rewritten, relocated and rejected. I tossed out 70% of the bathwater and dangled the baby over the drain.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. I replaced the plug and wrote the book, mostly from scratch. Even the female protagonist changed her last name. I'm so pleased with the result. I hope my readers like it and the characters as much as I do now.