Please join us today, September 6th, 3-4pm ET for a live chat with M.J. Rose, author of The Reincarnationist and an international bestselling author of nine novels. To attend the live chat, just visit The Reincarnationist at the time of the chat. If you are unable to attend, please leave your questions in this comment thread.
THE REINCARNATIONIST is equal parts modern-day thriller, historical fiction and love story. With one foot in present-day Rome and New York and another in Rome some 1,600 years ago, my story is about two worlds consumed by the fires of intrigue and passion.
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M.J. Rose is the international bestselling author of 9 novels; Lip Service, In Fidelity, Flesh Tones, Sheet Music, Lying in Bed, The Halo Effect, The Delilah Complex, The Venus Fix and The Reincarnationist.
Rose is also the co-author with Angela Adair Hoy of How to Publish and Promote Online, and with Doug Clegg of Buzz Your Book.
She is a founding member and board member of International Thriller Writers and the founder of the first marketing company for authors: AuthorBuzz.com. She runs two popular blogs; Buzz, Balls & Hype and Backstory.
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It's so wonderful to be here and be able to talk to you all today about my new novel, The Reincarnationist. A suspense novel about... you guessed it... reincarnation.
The design on the cover, to answer the first question is the brass door knocker in the shape of a Phoenix on the door of Phoexnix Foundation in the book. The foundation has been around since 1848 and studies past lives. (Its a fictional foundation)
Hi, and congratulations. Your book seems to be receiving rave reviews and inspiring much discussion. To what do you attribute the huge swell of interest in this book. Do you think reincarnation is one of those alluring topics? Or is this just the best darn thing you've ever composed?
Best of luck to you in your endeavors.
My question is: "Why don't Christians believe in reincarnation?
In your interview, you shared a story about how your mother believed you are the reincarnation of someone from your grandfather's generation in Russia. Did you ever find out more about your prior self? Have you personally known others who have had similar experiences?
The kids issue is tough but people are very careful to do reasearch with the kids and make sure the info is true and not from the media.
I should though.
I'm a blogger and I wanted to know if you're planning to do a blog tour along with your city tour.
Why did you chose 391 AD as the year for the past lives?
The way to access your past lives is through hynosis and deep mediation so the first book is about the discovery of and adventure around an ancient memory tool that helps people access their past lives.
I've said in this book that there were 12 such memory tools created in ancient India over 5000 years ago. In each book in the series, a different one of those memory tools will surface and the story will flow from there.
Cover_and_dates1 He became convinced I was a reincarnation of someone in his past. And over time, after more incidents, my mother – a very sane and logical woman -- also came to believe it.
Reincarnation was an idea I grew up with that my mom and I talked about and researched together.
For years, I wanted to write a novel about someone like my mother – who was sane and logical – who started out skeptical but came to believe in reincarnation. But I was afraid if I did people would think I was a "woo woo weirdo".
I tried to start the book ten years ago after my mother died but I was too close to the subject and missed her too much to be able to explore it objectively. Every once in while the idea would start to pester me again but I still stayed away from it.
Then a few years ago on the exact anniversary of my mom's death my niece, who was a toddler at the time, said some very curious things to me about my mother and I – things she really couldn't have known -- and the pestering became an obsession.
Josh Ryder, the main character has my mom's initials, her spirit and her curiosity and like her, he's a photographer. But there the similarities end.
When Josh starts having flashbacks that simply can't be explained any other way except as possible reincarnation memories he goes to New York to study with Dr. Malachai Samuels -- a scientist and Reincarnationist who works with children helping them deal with past life memories.
In the process Josh gets caught up in the search for ancient memory tools that may or may not physically enable people to reach back and discover who they were and who they are.
And Barbara - no one knows but some suggest 100s.
That's pretty cool your book is advertisied on TV... how did you swing that?
Your previous works were romance thrillers, so this is quite a step away from that genre. Or is it? How, if so, was the writing process different for the Reincarnationist?
We emailed over the weekend. You were in advertising before becoming a writer. What made you want to become a novelist?
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Busy writing to complete my internet magazine page in GATHER...
Hope, you find your questions and parts in the reincarnation...
A cheer for another book success...