LBL Talk

Jocasta is one of my main characters. She's a high school teacher who wants to do things to help her students. Teachers everywhere can relate to this. But is she too smart for her own good? Can a person change another person who doesn't think they need changing? Moreover, while there are males who come to the rescue, as males have always done and should do, females in my book have the dominant roles. We have so many male superheroes. And they are great! I love them! But, I've added to the pool of female superheroes. Jocasta and several other women come to the forefront, both wittingly and unwittingly, of A Look Behind Lightning , and while they don't have super-heroine costumes, they become --- (I need superhero music to finish this statement!)

I think about nameless people in the past who scribbled in the darkness about things that we have never seen -- maybe we never will. Who were those people? What were their names? Why did they write about supernatural things? Did they have first-hand knowledge about what they wrote? We doubt the validity of these writings, but we don't know them or what they saw. Yet, when we sit in the darkness, we can feel something just outside our sight.  And when we look, there's nothing there. What looks over our shoulders as we do the things we must do? That's what drove me to write A Look Behind Lightning .