Well, after much debating back and forth with myself over whether to be a nonfiction writer or a fiction writer, I decided on both. The Haunted Formula I began last summer evolved through more research into something too irresistible to ignore, but as I have a tendency to do 10 things at one time, I wanted to get someone to be co-writer and developer of this formula. After last summer's exhausting research, I knew I couldn't do all this alone in any reasonable length of time.
I found a perfect fit! You know my determination to meet and hug all the bloggers? Well, when I met and hugged Julie from Above the Norm and brought her on a ghost hunt with me, we’ve fast become good buddies and hunting partners. In fact, we’re very soon taking an overnight study of a haunted schoolhouse in a mining town, so I asked her if she’d be interested in co-developing and co-writing The Haunted Formula with me and she was game for it!
This is a huge help because the things that need to be researched on these 50 haunted sites for the book has been overwhelming time wise and I need someone to help me make observations, see correlations, and organize thoughts. Julie is just the lady. Her blog is a wonderful one that follows all the weird and bizarre paranormal things in AZ. And, this is a very crazy state!
So, in the future, expect to hear some updates on how the book writing is coming along. I would personally love to dedicate it to all the wonderful bloggers who were following me during last summer’s endless findings on commonalities between haunted places. You guys kept me going when I was cross-eyed and bleary by reminding me that I was onto something.
When all is said and done, we hope to find the physical and historic similarities that are common in actively haunted sites, the types of features that seem to instigate certain types of hauntings and even perhaps predict the best time to hunt there and get results. This will make it possible to even predict the site of a future haunting based on current history and physical features.
I can tell, it’s going to be another long summer!