What happens when you want to depart an already-established life to begin an entirely new one, leaving behind an enviable job and steady paycheck for the thrilling vagaries of becoming a self-employed writer? Well, tarot readers consistently pull The Fool card when giving you an oracle reading, for one thing!

But how foolish is it to follow a calling towards the craft and career one feels they were meant for?

Can you write a first book, get it published by mainstream New York presses, and subsequently produce another and another...until all of a sudden you have created a whole series that spans decades? Can you do so even in this day & age when the world of publishing is undergoing such change?

Yes, if one is guided and tenacious enough, claims the author of the unconventional 'Gathering The Dreamcatchers' companion novels.

This is the story of how the first 'dreamcatcher' came to be...