When I was developing my main character, Cora, for The Feeler, I started with an Enneagram type. What is an Enneagram? It’s a method of classifying human personalities into 9 types. I used the ideas from my main character’s Enneagram type to spark personality ideas....

Below is a conversation I cut from a draft of my manuscript. This deleted scene is really backstory. It gives you an idea about the events that shaped Cora, Sophia, Aunt Ferna, and even Oliver. Aunt Ferna has taken Cora out to a restaurant for her birthday dinner....

Brian Farris is a thirty-two-year-old man of average height and an athletic build, with blue-gray eyes and jet-black hair. He is Harold Albright’s nephew. While learning the family business, Brian becomes close to his uncle and his dad. Unfortunately, unlike his uncle...

Ferna Robertson is seventy-two years old and the same height as Cora but plump. She is born with no special abilities, but since her dad and sister are both Feelers, Ferna grows up surrounded by luxury due to her family’s influence. Ferna and her sister never got...

Harold Albright is a forty-eight-year-old man of medium height but full-figured. His graying brown hair and soft blue eyes make him look like a kind and gentle uncle. His wife passed away nearly a year ago. 3D Illustration of a futuristic green city with vertical...