What’s It All About?

Whenever I tell people I’ve written a novel, the first question they always ask is: what’s it about?

I find this question difficult to answer.

On its surface, The Spirit Keeper is an Indian captivity narrative set in 1747 in which a 17-year-old girl is removed from her frontier Pennsylvania home by Indians.

But anyone who’s read The Spirit Keeper knows that’s not what the book is about at all.  In fact, just about every single person I’ve talked to who’s read The Spirit Keeper has given me a completely different interpretation of what he/she thinks book is about.

And THAT, of course, is what The Spirit Keeper is really about.  It’s all about perspective, which is a frail and ephemeral thing, unique to every individual, every place, and every passing moment.  And because perspective is also subject to eternal evolution, a reader’s opinion of what this book is about may actually change more than once in the course of the story.

I know this all sounds like a cagey way of trying to keep from pigeonholing my book, but, honestly, you will find that when you read The Spirit Keeper, the perspective you bring to the story determines–more than most stories–what you think the book is about,  Therefore, if you really want to know what the book is about, I guess all I can say is, it’s sort of about you.

So if you haven’t read it yet, you’d better get yourself a copy and find out what I’ve been writing about you.  Then drop me a line here on my website and tell me what you think The Spirit Keeper is about!