{"id":32326,"date":"2020-04-20T19:53:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T02:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/?p=32326"},"modified":"2021-03-07T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T21:02:21","slug":"touching-the-supernatural-meet-author-jean-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/20\/touching-the-supernatural-meet-author-jean-booth\/","title":{"rendered":"Touching the Supernatural: Meet Author Jean Booth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Welcome back, <a title=\"Click to visit and follow WormholeRiders News Agency on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WormholeRiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WormholeRiders<\/a> and Writing Lovers!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32327\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeanbooth.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-32327\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/me-2015-square-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Author Jean Booth\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/me-2015-square-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/me-2015-square-240x240.jpg 240w, http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/me-2015-square-192x192.jpg 192w, http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/me-2015-square-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/me-2015-square.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Meet Jean Booth, author of the <strong>Origin of the Supernaturals<\/strong> series. All images courtesy of <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jeanbooth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean Booth<\/a> and <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bhcpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BHC Press<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">We are excited to present this <a title=\"Click to read the latest WormholeRiders Roundtable tweets on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23WormholeRidersRoundtable&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WormholeRiders Roundtable<\/a>, part of the <a title=\"Click to read the latest WHRYouDecide tweets on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23WHRYouDecide&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WHRYouDecide<\/a> Series, Featuring interviews of several Science Fiction and Fantasy writers. Many thanks to <a title=\"Click to visit and follow BHC Press on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BHCPressBooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BHC Press<\/a>\u00a0 and <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/writergary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gary Morgenstein<\/a> for this WormholeRiders&#8217; exclusive interview with <a title=\"Click to visit and Jean Booth on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeanBooth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean Booth<\/a>!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Mythologist <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Campbell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joseph Campbell<\/a> once wrote a best-selling book, called <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Power-Myth-Joseph-Campbell\/dp\/0385418868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Power of Myth<\/a>. The book was published and almost immediately turned into a <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/billmoyers.com\/content\/ep-1-joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-the-hero\u2019s-adventure-audio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PBS miniseries<\/a>, a series of six one-hour-long interviews with the author about his insights into ancient supernatural beliefs. Incredibly, it aired after he died. Campbell\u2019s death was sudden and unexpected. Passing from this life to the afterlife can happen without warning\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Some may say that there is something supernatural about the timing of the course of events. In fact, some say myths were created for the very purpose of explaining, through the fates of the gods, how the incidents and accidents of the physical world came to be.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">For example, the Greeks told of Demeter, goddess of vegetation, and how every year she laments the loss of her daughter Persephone to Hades in the underworld for half a year, and this explains why we have winter. The ancient Egyptians imagined that each morning Ra would come up in the eastern sky as a baby, grow old by the end of the day to the west, and the world would then be dark because Ra had died of old age and was down in the underworld with the dead. There you have it: day and night explained.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">But that is not what Campbell thought. Here is what he has to say about the enduring potency of supernatural mythology:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">\u201cPeople say that what we\u2019re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what we\u2019re really seeking. I think that what we\u2019re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Author <a title=\"Click to visit and Jean Booth on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeanBooth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean Booth<\/a> is a maker of this kind of mythology, that touches on the rapture of being alive. She has written within several genres, including the zombie genre, but her series <a title=\"Click to purchase the Books of Jean Booth at Amazon!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jean-Booth\/e\/B009WI5J0M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Origin of the Supernaturals is her standout work<\/a>. In it she has constructed a realm with characters, human and Supernatural, that touch her readers. The legend of Atlantis is the backdrop for this book series, which develops a world that offers more than simple explanations for phenomena like why the sun rises or why the seasons change. Booth explores, through her characters, the innermost reality of who they are and what they were meant for. More importantly, that humans have the capacity for supernatural strength and love within them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The protagonist is Natasha. She crosses over to the Supernatural, and her readers are invited to go with her. Readers explore what it is like for a mortal to enter into a Supernatural\u2019s world, understand supernatural concerns, and realize supernatural limitations. Natasha receives understanding about the constructs of their existence, responds to it, and helps us understand what it might mean for us.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"Click to visit and Jean Booth on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeanBooth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean Booth<\/a> was kind enough to let us interview her. Below here are some of the insights she provided for your enjoyment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"wpfp_d00043389323a934d0da4c504a9b15cc\" data-item=\"{&quot;sources&quot;:[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/wormholeriders.info\\\/videox\\\/2020-03-24-JeanBooth-Interview-Rev-001.mp3&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;audio\\\/mpeg&quot;}],&quot;id&quot;:&quot;5&quot;}\" class=\"flowplayer no-brand is-splash is-paused skin-slim no-svg fp-slim fp-edgy is-audio fixed-controls is-mouseover\" data-fvautoplay=\"-1\" data-fv-embed=\"https:\/\/www.wormholeriders.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/20\/touching-the-supernatural-meet-author-jean-booth\/fvp-5\/\" style=\"position:relative; \">\n<\/div>\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bhcpress.com\/Books_Booth_Choice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32330 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Choice-front-400x592.png\" alt=\"Author Jean Booth's Origins of the Supernaturals: Choice (Book 1)\" width=\"400\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Choice-front-400x592.png 400w, http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Choice-front-162x240.png 162w, http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Choice-front-130x192.png 130w, http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Choice-front.png 581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Q: Your series Origins of the Supernaturals presents us with a human woman who enters into a union\/communion with the realm of the Supernatural, leaving a mortal\u2019s life behind. Where did you get the idea for this premise?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><strong>A:<\/strong> I love the Supernatural\/fantasy genre and have read it for decades. Some of the qualifying factors were either the Supes operated in secrecy, or it was years after humanity was awakened to the knowledge that they walked and lived among us. I got to the point where I wanted to read the story of how that happened. How did humans react? Why did the Supes come out of the shadows? What does that story look like? After years of not finding what I wanted to read, I decided to write it myself. I needed to set up the backstory a bit and get acquainted with the characters before we jumped into the big reveal and how humanity accepted \u2013 or rejected \u2013 the idea that the things that go bump in the night are real. I wanted to show as much reality blended into myth as I could. There\u2019s so much mystery to Atlantis and the Bermuda Triangle, I thought, what if. From that simple question the story flowed into what it is today and continues to grow.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Q: This theme reminds me somewhat of the choice made by Arwen in the Lord of the Rings story line, where she forsakes an immortal life for a mortal life to remain with Aragorn. Is this a fair observation, and how would you compare\/contrast with it?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><strong>A:<\/strong> This is where my nerd card gets a beating. I actually am not a fan of Tolkien, but I love the movies. I have a vague idea of what your talking about from watching the movies, but it was probably more elaborate in the books. Raif would be Arwen in my story. He chooses to mate with the mortal Natasha, but not completely out of love for her. Their relationship, while on the surface is very selfish, is actually a selfless act for the greater good of the Atlantean civilization. Their relationship and what happens with the choices they make are the catalyst to everything that happens in the series. I can\u2019t go into a ton of detail without ruining some of the surprises, but their relationship is vital to bringing the Supernaturals out of the shadows so to speak.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bhcpress.com\/Books_Booth_Changed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-32329 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Changed-Cover-400x609.png\" alt=\"Author Jean Booth's Origins of the Supernaturals: Changed (Book 2)\" width=\"400\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Changed-Cover-400x609.png 400w, http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Changed-Cover-158x240.png 158w, http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Changed-Cover-126x192.png 126w, http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Changed-Cover.png 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Q: We live in a world where there is a subset of our society that completely embraces the prospect of the supernatural, and another subset that denies the possibility. What do you make of the belief-versus-cynicism extremes, and how are you attempting to reconcile these extremes in your writing?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><strong>A:<\/strong> I\u2019ve always believed in the possibility that we\u2019re not alone. Whether that\u2019s aliens, Supernaturals, gods, what have you, I find it na\u00efve to believe we (humans) are the ultimate creatures in the universe. We\u2019re constantly learning new things, opening our minds to new possibilities, and finding things that were \u201ctruth\u201d to be wrong. There are too many things I\u2019ve experienced in my life to indicate that there isn\u2019t something else. While I understand the subset of people who cannot \u2013 or refuse to \u2013 believe that the supernatural (more than normal) is a farce, I cannot share their sentiments. My goal with my writing has always been to blend reality with fantasy until the lines between are blurred. I want people to think that this could happen. I feel like there\u2019s too much unknown in the universe to not have your beliefs questioned occasionally.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Q: Through your writing, how do you hope to impact your readers?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><strong>A:<\/strong> I mostly want people to simply enjoy the story. It\u2019s a story I\u2019ve wanted to read about, something I\u2019m passionate about, and I want to be able to share it with others. Beyond that, I hope people take from it what they will. I don\u2019t intentionally write hidden agendas, but my characters do have minds of their own and whether I agree or not, they have their own personalities. I hope readers enjoy the escape, but also learn how to accept the things that they don\u2019t completely understand. That they learn to ask questions before reacting out of fear.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Q: What are your plans for the future?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">A: My initial goal is to recover from this COVID-19 thing. Breathing is a wondrous thing to take for granted and this has been an abysmal experience. Beyond that, I want to be able to finish this series in the next three years. With working full time, I have to set realistic goals, and as much as I\u2019d love to finish this series this year, I just don\u2019t have the time I\u2019d like to devote to writing. I have two books that are being edited, one that I\u2019m actively writing on, and two that need to be finished. We\u2019re getting into some really complicated parts in the story and I want it to be believable, while still maintaining hope and the Supernatural elements without being overly complicated. We have a few storylines going on at the moment and I have to be very careful not to mush them together into an inedible paste. I also have five other books I\u2019m actively writing in as well that have nothing to do with this series. With this virus, I\u2019ve been having a difficult time concentrating on anything other than breathing, so I haven\u2019t been able to utilize the time off from work, as I\u2019d have liked to. But those are my plans: 1) not become a zombie, and 2) write. Keeping it simple.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">We certainly hope <a title=\"Click to visit and Jean Booth on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeanBooth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean Booth<\/a> completes this series as soon as possible. We would love her to complete the arc of this mythological fantasy to see how it all comes together. Experiencing the \u201crapture of being alive,\u201d as mythologist Campbell said, is achieved through reading. He went on to say,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">\u201cSit in a room and read&#8211;and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"Click to visit and Jean Booth on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeanBooth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean Booth\u2019s<\/a> mythologically-infused tales of supernatural beings, and their quests, are spun to make her readers experience a slow-burning rapture. And the use of the word rapture, you know, is also meant to describe rather steamy intimate moments contained in this series. There are some encounters that might make even the mighty Zeus blush! So read it \u2026 and relish it!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">So thank you, Jean Booth, for letting us conduct this interview with you! We hope you are able to finish this fantastic series soon, because we can&#8217;t wait to read it! Our thanks also to <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/writergary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gary Morgenstein<\/a> for arranging the interview and <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BHCPressBooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BHC Press<\/a> publications for supporting it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WormholeRiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WormholeRiders News Agency<\/a> Team and I look forward to sharing more real news with you in the future.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"Click to visit and follow WormholeRiders News Agency on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WormholeRiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30693\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WormholeRiders-New-Logo-150TS-Dark.png\" alt=\"Click to visit and follow WormholeRiders News Agency on Twitter!\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>In the meantime, feel free to share this article with your friends, co-workers and or family. Thanks to <a title=\"Click to visit and follow Kenn of #TeamWHR on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WormholeRiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenn<\/a> for video and image embedding and we thank you for visiting and express our sincere gratitude for doing so!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Feel free to visit <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">me on <a title=\"Click to visit and follow Katherine of #TeamWHR on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/klhparker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> by clicking the text links or images avatars in this news story. <a title=\"Click to read the latest TeamWHR tweets on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23TeamWHR&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Team WHR<\/a> and I look forward to sharing more with you in the future!<a title=\"Click to visit and follow Katherine Parker on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatTheWonk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-32741\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Katherine-Parker-Kat-The-Wonk-on-Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"Click to visit and follow Katherine Parker on Twitter\" width=\"185\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Best Regards, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click to visit and follow Katherine Parker on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatTheWonk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Katherine Parker <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back, WormholeRiders and Writing Lovers! 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