Inside the Mind - Elena Dorothy Boulos Bowman

Why I Wrote The Sarah’s Landing Series The answer to that question isn’t as easily answered as one would think. I guess it all started when one of my co-workers said I should be writing books. When I asked her why, she said because I have a way with words and that I was supposed to write. “Who said so?” I asked. She just smiled and repeated her statement. “It’s something you should be doing,” she added,” but you are too chicken to even try.” I laughed, shook my head, said she was “nuts” and went back to work. Lunch time was over. However, after a while, say several weeks, her comments did pique my curiosity. I wondered for a crazy moment if I could actually sit down and put words on paper that had a story line to it. But the thought was fleeting and so it passed. It seemed that after that conversation, we crossed paths constantly, more so than we ever did. All she would do is smile and pretend to scribble in the air on an invisible piece of paper, pointing to what she was doing and to me, nodding her head that that is what I should be doing. I just laughingly shook it off and walked on. One very hectic morning, after struggling with my computer, I sat back, lit a cigarette … yes I used to smoke … and began to relax for a few moments before tackling my next objective. As I casually watched the smoke from my cigarette curl and float up towards the corner of my office wall, I started to wonder where it went. Did it pass through the walls and then travel down through the spaces between the finished wall and the frames? Did it go further on down through the basement floor and weave its way to the subterranean earth and into a cave or a world that existed beneath my feet? I didn’t know, but I pondered that journey and began to put the words down on paper. Several weeks later, working on this project off and on, I suddenly discovered that I had written four chapters. Someone told me once that if you manage to get by the first three chapters you were on your way to a book. My husband had been watching me off and on for those weeks and finally asked me what I was doing. I said I was writing a story. He asked why, and I said, because. I asked him to read the four chapters I had already written. What he didn’t know was that his answer would determine whether I completed the book or not. When he had finished reading the chapters I gave him, he looked up and asked, “Where are you going with this?” I said I didn’t know. “Well,” he said, “Even though I may regret saying this,” he paused momentarily as if making up his mind before continuing, then said he thought it was good. With my husband’s encouragement I wrote Sarah’s Landing-I, and went on to write the entire series of four books. Because I stopped smoking, I decided to take that part of the story out and instead of the deep recesses of the earth I went for the far reaches of space. I hope I have intrigued you enough to want to buy a copy of my book, and that you will have as much fun reading it as I did writing it. Thank you

People vanishing 10 years before the new millennium, the first space-exploration starship, Earth Star-I, lost in deep space fifty-one months earlier - Is there a connection between these unexplained disappearances and a village along the rocky coast of New England, a place called Sarah's Landing? Joshua Morgan is the Astronaut/Biologist searching for answers and is unaware his quest will take him to the far reaches of space and to an alien planet no one knew existed. Joshua's finds love for two different woman on two different worlds, light years apart. His love for these women results in the birth of two sons - one from the alien planet, one from Earth, and both empowered with mind-linking capabilities.

The characters started to emerge first when I named them, then they seemed to present themselves as the story progressed. It seemed as if the characters fit the names they were given and from that point the characters took control of the story.

Since I was working full time, I wrote on my lunchbreaks or late at night. I still had a husband and four children to care for, dinner and such, so my days ran into the night until my husband would lower the lights telling me I, as well as he, had to get up early to get to work the following day.

Being published.

Not enough time during the day and nights to keep writing.

Not really. Just my imagination, my husband and my computer.

Don't give up. If you love your work and you think someone else would enjoy what you wrote - persevere. Keep going until you finally find the publisher who likes your work as much as you do.

Actually my publisher was handing my book promotion. Unfortunately, she sold her company to someone else and I am now on my own.

I am working on the memoirs of my and my husband's lives.

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