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Monday, February 20th, 2012

Welcome Dewey Dempsey

Join me in welcoming Dewey Dempsey to Highlighted Author.

 Welcome, Dewey.  Please tell us about yourself.

People tell me that I have led an interesting life and that is what they see as the strength of my books.  The ‘bad guys’ in my works are based on my years of working with inmates on Death Row and in maximum security prisons, both male and female. This was followed by a career as a therapist working with severely mentally ill populations.  I have traveled and observed people from all walks of life.

My storytelling training was that unless I could visualize my stories completely with all of the senses I could not make it real for the audience. Then, the process involves asking the image for the backstory, the motivation, the history.  Sometimes I need to research on locations and practical details. With one or two exceptions I never write about a location I have not visited. Even the fictionally created places are composites of places I have visited.

I am a bit of a nomad. I have lived in Atlanta and various other north Georgia locations, Scotland, South Carolina, California, Oregon, Vermont and Quebec. I now live just over the Georgia line from Chattanooga.

I have built bus bodies, taught on Death Row and directed an outpatient mental health treatment center.  I have been an educator, therapist, administrator, program designer and developer, consultant, coach, professional storyteller, novelist and spiritual seeker.  I have led workshops in Bermuda, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Georgia and Tennessee   I have been saying that the future of publishing is in EBooks and have now put that belief into practice. I have ten books on Kindle, Nook and iBook/iTunes. I am currently writing a book on how to EPublish. I currently offer coaching in creative writing and EBook publishing.

I have a B.A., M.A and Ed.S in English and an M.A. in psychology.

I have been a professional storyteller for fifteen years and was a charter member of the Healing Stories Alliance of the National Storytelling Network. I have performed my original stories and taught storytelling and writing techniques in Arizona, Bermuda, California, Colorado, Georgia and Tennessee.

Diamond Rising Star Adair Series Trailer

Diamond Rising Star Adair Series

Diamond Rising Star Adair is a Cherokee Princess as the heir to one of the Cherokee oil fortunes.

Diamond Rising Star Adair is majority owner in the family’s Tsali Lodge Resort in Gran Lac, Wyoming

Diamond Rising Star Adair has a Ph.D  from Brown University, after undergraduate at Cornell

Diamond Rising Star Adair is trained in a variety of martial arts and was a finalist for the U.S. Women’s Soccer Olympic team

Diamond Rising Star Adair is a pilot with a fleet of jet and prop planes

Diamond Rising Star Adair is the owner of a detective agency specializing in industrial espionage

Diamond Rising Star Adair is a tenured professor at Denver University

Diamond Rising Star Adair becomes a Native American medicine woman

Diamond Rising Star Adair is driven to become an expatriate living under a new identification, Dawn Etoile, in Canada and Belize

Diamond and the Shape Shifting Mayans

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 Diamond and the Shape Shifting Mayans

Blurb:

          A blend of high tech and Native American Shamanism.  Both the Mayans and Diamond and her partners use shape shifting in the some of the battles.

This novel is set in 2006 and 2007.  The action moves around the United States and Canada including Vancouver Island and Chilliwack, British Columbia; Los Angeles, Denver, El Paso, Reno, the Black Rock Desert,  Vermont, Spokane, Seattle in the U. S.; and, Odanak Montreal, Magog and Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.

Diamond’s former lover Jim Sullivan is killed by the more militant Mayans who are angry at their defeat [Diamond: Psychotic Psychiatrists and Mad Mayans].  These militants are part of a secret set of tribes within the larger Mayan Revenant group. They are intent on infiltrating and taking over the United States as part of the 2012 prophecies and feel that Diamond and her agency are the biggest block.

They launder money for the drug cartels and use the cartel’s soldiers in their war to kill Diamond and her friends.

The climax is in the Black Rock Desert during the 2007 Burning Man gathering.

Diamond and the Shape Shifting Mayans

Ucluelet July 15, 2007

Diamond glanced into the mirror as she carried the tray with the carafe and coffee cup out to the patio at the back of her house. She noted wryly that she had chosen buckskins again. She used to laugh at Native American wannabes who wore buckskin. It was Raining Tears who had taught her the practicality and comfort of well-made buckskin. She found herself laughing at an image of her in some B movie version of the beleaguered Indian princess dying cradled in the arms of her heroic white lover. As she set the tray down she gave a quick bow to the nine directions and thanked them for the bounty and especially for this semi-wilderness compound.  She sipped her coffee and mulled over what Aunt Sare had told her. She did not believe she was an adept at shape shifting. She certainly didn’t believe that she was better than anyone Aunt Sara had heard about. Weakened and dying as she was Aunt Sara had been vehement that she needed to become the teacher and quit looking for another teacher. She had slyly smiled and told her that you always learned more while teaching than most of your students did.

She sighed but accepted the responsibility. David and Deborah were due in a few minutes to help set up for the training. Sean was picking Brenda and Mary Ann up at the Victoria airport. Louis and Shana were flying in from his home in Quebec Province.  They had scheduled four days for this training but Diamond did not have a feel for how long it would actually take. She wasn’t even sure it was worthwhile. At the last meeting she had seriously suggested that the team fake her death so convincingly that Knowles would just move on with his plans to infiltrate the U.S.  She pointed out that she was in hiding from her own government anyway so one more level of hiding should not be a problem.  The team had listened and let her talk herself out of it.

Preparing for the training proved simple. It was mostly walking the compound to be sure that the paths were clear and that the clearings and trees were strong enough to take the weight of the trainees. By eleven the three of them were sitting outside on the patio. “The others are due within the hour. Is there any business we need to clear up before we start our concentration?”

David and Deborah exchanged glances. It was David that spoke.”I’m not sure how you meant business. The question for the both of us is where do we go from here. What do we want to do after Knowles operation is cleaned out?  We don’t know the answer. It feels like a lifetime since I left my vision quest and was sent to you by the spirits. In a short time I went from being a bodyguard to being the CEO of a large company and independently wealthy. That happened not only without losing my spiritual connections, but having them strengthened. Before Knowles, I had convinced myself that Deborah and I could fade back to the reservation and spend our lives helping the children there.”  He looked at Deborah.

“We know that isn’t possible. We both worked so hard to avoid the traps for the kids growing up on the res. And, we succeeded. Neither of us use drugs or alcohol nor have done anything criminal.” She laughed. “Except for what we do in the Agency.” They all laughed a little ironically. “I believe that our motives for what we do are enough. Back to what I was saying. I had not understood the way resentment and envy worked. The last year has been difficult. Other than a few close friends the people on the res either revile us for ‘selling out‘ or beg us for money for some project. The project money always gets drunk or snorted. We are considering placing our money in a trust and doing another serious vision quest. We seem to have used up our last one already.” She smiled fondly at David. “We agree we already have more than we went questing for.”

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