I’m guest blogging over at fellow Wicked Writer Shelley Bradley’s blog! You can catch me there, giving away a copy of Satisfaction Guaranteed. Here’s Michele Lang, Shomi debut author! Comment to win a copy of Netherwood.

Electric Dreams

When I was a little girl, I used to get myself to sleep every night by
disappearing into another world. Robin Hood waited for me at the edge of a
dark, tangled forest, and I became one of his merry band every night, as the
mundane world drifted away.

I’ve been cruising around the blogosphere celebrating the release of
NETHERWOOD, and it’s breathtaking to connect with published authors,
writers, and readers in a single cyberforum. Together, we’ve explored the
inner world. All of us have dreams, fears, and fantasies.a world of desires
that lives inside our minds.

One thing a lot of writers seem to have in common is their propensity to
disappear into that world, a tendency to slip away into another universe. I
know I’ve lived on multiple levels of reality since I can remember – an
alternate world, like the one hidden in CS Lewis’s wardrobe, filled with
angels, lovers, and monsters.

Sometimes those creatures of the mind seem more real than daily life, with
its dirty dishes, pinkeye, and taxes. And their country beckons to me in
the morning now, when I peel myself out of bed at 6 a.m., already feeling
guilty for sleeping in that late…

NETHERWOOD features an inner world generated by technology, a place where an
entire civilization explores its fantasies together. Talia, the
protagonist, disappears into a dark forest of the mind — at first to hide
from her surface life, but ultimately she ventures into the Netherwood to
save her world and the people she loves.

I didn’t realize how much the Netherwood resembled the territory of my own
dreams until these blog discussions, held in a cyberworld we all visit,
pointed it out to me. Life follows art!

Thanks so much Charli for inviting me over to your place! 🙂

Thank you, Michele, for joining us, and congrats on your debut novel! Feel free to ask Michele about her book, and a name will be drawn from today’s comments to receive a copy of Netherwood!