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- Santa Ynez, CA
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- Married
- About Me:
- Sandy Nathan knows the worlds she describes in her writing. She draws on her personal studies in meditation, spirituality, and mysticism as well as her experiences in Silicon Valley corporate culture, breathing life into her characters and giving them depth and dimension. Sandy has won multiple national awards for her books. The mother of three grown children, Sandy and her husband live on their California horse ranch.
This gives an adequate view of Sandy Nathan, but you may get a livelier one from this question and answer session:
Q & A WITH SANDY NATHAN:
Where did you get the idea of a series of thrillers about the richest man in the world and a great shaman?
From God. Also from the strands of my life. Most of what’s in the Bloodsong Series comes from the threads of my life, as interpreted by my unconscious mind and shaped by my editors.
The series exploded in my brain after a cataclysmic and healing meditation retreat and thirty years of personal work. Heal that trauma! Clean up that mess!
I started writing the Bloodsong Series in 1995. I was fifty years old: It took me fifty years to have something worth saying. It’s taken me thirteen more to write it properly.
Are Will Duane and Grandfather based on real people?
No. They grew up inside of me as characters. They bear similarities to people I’ve known or read about, but they have their own life inside me. I wish they were real. I’d love to do dinner at Will’s.
Are you real?
Yeah. It says so on the label attached to the back of my neck.
Actually, this is a good question. BECOMING AND BEING REAL are the main things I write about. Becoming my Self is my goal in life.
Why did you call it The Bloodsong Series?
My surgeon asked me that as he wheeled me into the operating room. I said that, “It almost killed me to write it, so why not?” (The surgery went fine.)
The actual reason is that my blood sang, danced, and did cartwheels during the years I’ve worked on the series. I hope yours does the same. This is visceral, bloody spirituality.
Why are books about vampires so popular these days?
Beats me. I think people should read about bloody, heart-singing, mind-searing spirituality. The vampire deal does nada for me. Books about spiritual growth and recovery from addiction are compatible with action, violence, sex and sensuality. Read my stuff and find out. Better: Try it and find out.
Live your heart’s song, not its drippings.
Why all the sex in Numenon?
There’s only one explicit scene, and that’s a flashback. The undercurrent of sexuality in Numenon is due to the undercurrent of sexuality in all things human.
And besides, I have my mother’s permission to write what I wrote. I started this book in 1995. About 1997, I announced to my mom that I was writing a novel.
She said, “I want the first copy!” My mom was elderly at this time. And always had been a lady.
After two years of writing, I knew the lay of the book, so to speak. I gasped and said, “Well, mom, some of it’s kind of … raunchy.”
She smiled her adorable smile and said, “Why, Sandy, honey, you have to have sex in it, or no one will buy it.”
She died in the year 2000 and didn't receive that first copy. I like to think that in the Bloodsong Series and my other fiction, I have embodied my mother’s advice to the fullest. I’m sure she’d be proud.
Do you have any advice for your readers?
Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else's.
What kind of music do you listen to while writing?
None. The song of my soul, the music of the spheres, and the chugging of my computer sound automatically when I write. That’s enough. I get hostile if anyone comes into the room making any noise. Since I write in the family room most of the time, I have become a problem, like our dog who bites anyone near his dish. We’re working on it.
- Website:
- http://sandynathan.com
- Favorite Music:
- Bill Miller. Period. This Native American musician, artist and speaker is the best.
- Favorite TV Shows:
- Don't watch TV.
Sandy Nathan's Blog
AMAZON BESTSELLER BEST SELLER DAY DECEMBER 9––HERE ARE SOME OF THE PRIZES!
My Amazon Bestseller Best seller Book Party is coming right up: December 9 2008. I’m doing one of those “bust into the Amazon bestseller ranks by providing incentives (bribes) to buyers to if they buy on a certain day.” These parties have been around for a while and have been lauded and condemned by many.
I’m doing mine for a bunch of reasons, one of which is the possibility of moving into the Amazon bestsellers with my book… Continue
I’m doing mine for a bunch of reasons, one of which is the possibility of moving into the Amazon bestsellers with my book… Continue
Posted on November 20, 2008 at 5:35pm —
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