Blog Posts by Susan Egner
Inspirations, thoughts by Minnesota author and flight attendant
In an earlier post, I mentioned that Book 8 of the Souls On Board series will be coming out in February. Originally, the working title was Mask of Lies, but that’s been changed. It will now be titled “Capitol Gold.” Soon I will post two options for cover art for that book and would be interested in your vote. In preparation for that, let me explain the Japanese art of Kintsugi.
Kintsugi is both a philosophy and tradecraft. The latter involves repairing dishes using glue mixed with gold. Therefore, the fact that the dish was broken is very obvious in the finished work and cherished all the more.
Likewise, in real life, the Japanese believe the many harsh events in life that can break a person, can also refine a person. Those hardships are cherished as the hurdles that strengthened character and determination.
So, do I leave the Kintsugi streaks of gold in the cover art? You decide. Watch for my next post.
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Published as Book 6, Destination Unknown should have been published as Book 5, since it initiates Casey Click’s promotion to special assignments:
Assigned to celebrity charter flights, Casey Click receives specific training that includes her closest friends, Bonnie, Bertie and Kit. Because of the matter of confidentiality, they are sworn to secrecy. Her friends are delighted when Casey’s first celebrity charter is scheduled to carry Academy Award winning actress, Eve Jobert, to Jamaica to work on a film based on the White Witch of Rose Hall. Inviting her friends along, they discover that the infamous house is more than a museum about 100-year-old murders; it now spells horror.
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Newspaper reporter: I understand you are strongly opposed to hypnosis.
Kit: Not for everyone. Just for myself and anyone else who is highly suggestible.
Newspaper reporter: What do you mean?
Kit: It’s my belief that you should always have yourself under control. The same would apply to the use of alcohol, or, heaven forbid, drugs.
Newspaper reporter: You sound as if you’re speaking from personal experience.
Kit: I once was in a large audience of people attending a performance of a magician/hynotist. You know the kind, where they ask for volunteers from the audience and under a trance, have them barking like dogs or quacking like ducks.
Newspaper reporter: And did you volunteer?
Kit: Absolutely not.
Newspaper reporter: I don’t understand. What happened, if you didn’t volunteer?
Kit: That’s just it, the same commands he gave to the participants on stage, affected me in the same way, and who knows how many others in the audience.
Newspaper reporter: So were you quacking like a duck?
Kit: Something like that. It lasted for days.
Newspaper reporter: Excuse me for laughing, but was that so bad?
Kit: It might not have been, but the hypnotist actually planted two levels of commands. One was a simple one that had me scratching my head whenever I heard certain words. That sounds laughable, I agree.
Newspaper reporter: But it wasn’t funny?
Kit: Far from it. The hypnotist also planted a second, deeper command that made me want to go somewhere, but I didn’t know where. It turns out, the answer would have come from a phone call, his phone call, telling me to go somewhere. I would have been completely out of my own control.
Newspaper reporter: Did you ever receive that phone call?
Kit: No, but others did, and if you’ve read the paper recently, it led to fatal results.
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