Hello Everyone,

Where have I been? Actually I have been very, very busy reading for both pleasure and work. Work you ask? I have being doing tons of research. Research on what you ask, well, let me say I am trying to find the connection between the paranormal and sibling abuse. Why you ask? I am finally working on my novel that I am so very excited about writing and sharing with the world.

As most of you know I wrote a memoir called SORRY IT IS NOT YOUR TURN. Realizing the idea for my memoir is very interesting it unfortunately contains a lot of loose ends, which definitely needs some fine-tuning. So using the basis of my memoir and the research that I am conducting on sibling abuse and the paranormal it will be a much more detailed and engaging read.

You are probably wondering to yourself how I am going to be relating sibling abuse to the paranormal. Basically, my novel will be about an adolescent girl who is frequently abused by her brother, and trying to run away from the abuse she turns to the Ouija board as an escapism tool. However, as you all know that when experimenting with the Ouija board it all starts off innocent and fun, but never quite stays that way.

Although this novel will be classified as a fiction it is based on true events and facts that I have gathered from hours upon hours of research. These are some of the topics on the subject of the paranormal that I have been researching and covering in my novel:

• How do the dead communicate with the living?
• Are Ouija boards a doorway to another realm?
• Is there a connection between troubled teens and the supernatural?
• Do poltergeists use the energy and imagination of young people to manifest itself into the physical world?
• Are there really ways to use the mind to conjure up spirits?
• Do the deceased really watch out for their loved ones who are living?

The topics that I will be covering on sibling abuse in my novel are as follows:

• What is sibling abuse?
• Is sibling abuse really true memories or dreams or a result of an active imagination.
• How to confront someone on sibling abuse many years later? And should you as part of the healing process?

These are just some of the questions that I hope people will think about long after reading my novel.

Cheers,
Trisha Mortimore