ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Meridian's Heart began as a short story establishing the rules governing tooth fairy collection. Destiny and chance provided time to turn what was planned to be a children's book, into writing a novel. Escaping into ones inner thoughts, from finding ideas lived through past experience, to the wonder of catching sunlit spider webs shimmering off electrical lines, offered me the joys and challenges of painting pictures and images with words.

Motivation. What makes us push forward and believe we can do anything? Money, fame, health, competition, acts of kindness, religion, revenge, accomplishment, finding the solution (or why we failed), or daring to achieve the impossible...our drive is what defines us.

What defines me as a person is proving to myself that I can do something few people would attempt to do, or not have the patience, tenacity and strong conviction to try. I have always liked long odds! 

Meridian's Heart took over a year and half to write, another year for edits and revisions (many, many revisions), and almost another year to publish. The fun has been the journey and above all proving to myself that I could write a novel. Few books ever find wide-spread success. The time spent from typing those first nuggets of thought, to fashioning the puzzle pieces of characters and events into a cohesive story, is what makes us fall in love with the process of writing. 

My goal was to write a story with characters we all identify with: a girl who lost her mother, boys in an orphanage, a ballerina, a spurned woman, an evil king supported by his flawed researcher, greedy business men, twin boys with a game designer father, and a host of individuals who must rely on their wit and intelligence, rather than magic. I endeavored to make it character and plot driven, rather than a story shaped by magical  incantations, mystical journey's or resolving all conflicts with hard to believe solutions.

I set out to write a good story.

Hopefully, I have achieved a measure of success. I welcome comments, feedback (what worked...what didn't) and recommendations that might find their way into the second book in the series I am writing, Meridian's Rainbow. I look forward to hearing from you in the near future and sincerely appreciate the precious time you spent in reading Meridian's Heart. 

All correspondence can be sent to: meridiansheart.com.

Kind regards,

Michael