FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical
FICTION / Thriller
FICTION / Psychological
Date Published: February 4, 2020
Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
Eli Cranston, an attorney who himself suffered from the broken legal system and moreso from the loss of his wife and daughter, flees Los Angeles to a place that might hold – should he let it – forgiveness, redemption, and purpose: Bar Harbor, Maine. There, in a small white farm cottage by the sea, Eli launches a new career with Forward-Life Progression, a program that helps clients work past trauma and addiction to built a resilient new life. He finds Hope, cares for rescue horses and a pregnant cat. He is drawn to Rebecca, a farmer at the Farmer’s Market, and forges a revelatory relationship with Dr. Otto Gunther, a Holocaust survivor. With unopened boxes and a pile of letters marked “Return to Sender,” Eli can’t hide his secrets much longer. Is this his second chance?
Interview with
Caroline Zani
For those interested in exploring the
subject or theme of your book, where should they start?
There are many books on
past life regression therapy. Dr. Brian Weiss and Dr. Jim B. Tucker are
therapists who discovered that when they regressed patients back to childhood,
sometimes they went further back and visited a former life. In these sessions,
physical and emotional healing occurred for the patients. Neither of these
doctors believed in reincarnation and didn’t begin writing about it until they
had decades of experience with these incredible breakthroughs. Forward Life
Progression is an available therapy and I would encourage readers to learn the
potential benefits for themselves.
How did you become involved with the
subject or theme of your book?
That is a story unto
itself. Suffice it say that it was all part of the big picture - my journey. I
wrote Piper, Once & Again
(Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, July 2016) quite by accident after an intuitive
named Gina Clapprood told me I was writing a book. I laughed and in an effort
to prove her theory wrong, I wrote an entire book. It happened to be about a
woman who discovered that an event in her former lifetime was holding her back
in this one. And then my life took some pretty sharp corners leading me to my
current book Waiting for Grace where
we look at Future Life Progression.
What were your goals and intentions
in this book, and how well do you feel you achieved them?
I honestly don’t have
much warning before the book strikes. I know that sounds odd but I don’t sit
down with the intention to write a novel. On the few occasions I have tried,
there didn’t seem to be much there. I feel the story has to be ready before I
become aware of it, then I can’t think of anything but the story. That’s why I
write them so quickly - I cannot focus on anything else until it’s complete.
That said, once I’m in
the trenches, I realize that there are many messages and lessons being conveyed
through the work and the intentions grow from there.
With Waiting for Grace, the intention was to
show people that no matter your lot in life, you have choices and you can make
changes. Sometimes life has to knock the wind out of you to get your attention
and that’s when you have nothing to lose by changing. That’s where the miracles
happen - not in the trying but in the allowing.
Anything you would like to say to
your readers and fans?
I can’t thank them enough for each email and mention on
social media. It makes me happy to see that men and women enjoy my work all
over the world.
What did you enjoy most about writing
this book?
I loved writing about
Hope. She represents the innocence that all children are and possess. What’s
unique about her is that her role in the book is that of a healer, even if she
is unaware of the effects she has on Eli, Rebecca, Otto and Elise. Sometimes
that is the most effective of healers - the ones that just live their life and
touch all with whom they have contact.
Can you tell us a little bit about
your next books or what you have planned for the future?
The third book in this
series is Hope Rising. In this book
we will see all the characters from Piper,
Once & Again and Waiting for
Grace begin working out all the details of life - past, present and future
as they begin to see their connections to one another and that there are no
coincidences in life. We are all part of a picture larger than we can imagine
How long have you been writing?
My whole life. It
wasn’t until 2008 that I decided I would get serious about it.
Can you tell us a little bit about
the characters in Waiting for Grace?
Eli is the protagonist
in this story. He is on a path of financial success as a very successful lawyer
in his father’s Los Angeles law firm. What he isn’t as successful at is being a
husband to Antigone and father to his daughter. It’s not that he doesn’t have
many chances to wake up and change - he does, but chooses to remain on his
quest for winning and financial gain. He gets a wake up call that is perfectly
crafted by life itself and presents him with a choice: give up or awaken to the
gift you were given, hone that and help others. In doing, so he heals himself
quite unintentionally.
Otto is a Holocaust
survivor who becomes a mentor of sorts for Eli who is fascinated with this
man’s ability to see life through the lens of gratitude and hope about the
future, not necessarily needing to know where it will take him.
Hope is, in many ways,
all children. She is innocence and bravery and fragility and a child her
parents do not deserve in the sense that despite the chaos she was born into,
she has an innate sense that she is worthy of love and protection. She is
unmarred by their mistakes and anger.
She seeks out what she needs herself, not from other people, but from
horses and other animals who are the true healers of the world.
Clem, the handyman, is
an all around good guy who has made mistakes but learned from them. He’s the
“shirt-off-his-back” town fixture everyone knows. His Downeast accent is true
to form as is his New England sensibility. He’s a man that some might think
lives an ordinary workaday life but we will see in Hope Rising that there is
much to be learned about Clem LaFrance.
If you could spend the day with one
of the characters from Waiting for Grace,
who would it be? Please tell us why you chose this particular character, where
you would go and what you would do.
That’s a tough one. I
think I would have to say Rebecca. I love her farm and her independence. I grew
up working on horse farms but made the leap to a turkey farm in my teens where
I worked in the kitchen making all sorts of things. A farm is constant work and
no matter how diligent you are and what your plan is for the day, it’s likely
to go differently. Even with a Master’s degree, I still enjoy using farm girl
ingenuity to fix things and solve problems.
I think Rebecca would
likely put me to work in the barn cleaning stalls and mending fences which I
would be happy to do. Hopefully lunch would be involved - maybe at Rosalie’s
Pizza.
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