"adobeDreams Revisited" is a revision and expansion of material
previously published as “adobeDreams:
A Novel of Santa Fe” (2010) and “adobeDreams
II: The End of Karma” (2012).
My primary reason for the new edition is that I felt I could do a
better job of telling the story of the characters, whom I adore.
At
the time I wrote the original novels I was taking a full load of
“post-corporate-job bucket list” classes at a local community college while
also completing Reiki training through Master Teacher. Somehow, I thought I
could compartmentalize and juggle all that. Instead it was a continuation of
the frenzied multi-tasking of the corporate environment I had just left, and a
recipe for mental burnout. Fast-forward some five-to-six years later and it was
time to revisit adobeDreams.
I also listened to reader comments and eliminated
superfluous elements that did not contribute to the overall narrative.
Sometimes an author has so many ideas and so much to say that the plot is
diverted into tangential branches that bear no fruit. This is just such a case
where a little less is indeed a whole lot more.
Lastly, combining the two novels makes a richer, more
complete story.
Some readers were enthralled by what we might call the
philosophy of the adobeDreams novels,
and for that reason I have added a “Philosophy of adobeDreams” chapter as a compilation of those insights. My hope is
that these snippets will in some way prove helpful or at least provide a basis
for further thought.
eBook versions of "adobeDreams Revisited" are currently available from Barnes & Noble, Apple iBooks, and multiple formats from Smashwords (smashwords.com). Price: $5.99
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