Daniela I. Norris
is a former diplomat, turned political writer, and with age and wisdom -
inspirational author and speaker. Her award-winning stories, articles and
essays have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies.
Published books include -
- Crossing Qalandiya - Exchanges Across the Israeli Palestinian Divide (Reprtage Press, 2010)
- On Dragonfly Wings - a skeptic's journey to mediumship (Axis Mundi Books, 2014)
- Collecting Feathers: tales from The Other Side (Soul Rocks Books, 2014)
Recognitions, part of a trilogy, is her first novel.
Daniela lives
with her family near Geneva, Switzerland, and is co-director of the Geneva
Writers' Conference and part of the International Grief Council panel (www.internationalgriefcouncil.org).
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Title:
Recognitions
Author: Daniela I. Norris
Publisher: Roundfire Books
Pages: 200
Genre: Inspirational/Women’s Fiction
Author: Daniela I. Norris
Publisher: Roundfire Books
Pages: 200
Genre: Inspirational/Women’s Fiction
Amelia Rothman, a
foreign-rights editor from New York, has a turbulent personal life. She
juggles a divorce and two teenage kids, and decides to seek hypnotherapy to
help her deal with insomnia and anxieties. But when during the session an
unexpected event emerges, she tries to understand how it is relevant to her
current life and why it suddenly triggers a series of synchronicities that take
her on an unexpected personal journey to the depth of her subconscious.
At once a spiritual and psychological novel, Recognitions explores the concepts of past lives, recognition of people and their roles in our present lives and life lessons.
Praise for
Recognitions:
Think Cloud Atlas, a classic story of rebirth, many lives, and
reincarnation on a level that involves protagonists in other lives – but take
it a step further in Recognitions, the first novel in a trilogy, which presents
a woman under hypnosis who sometimes encounters a French girl on the cusp of
marriage and sometimes an African shaman facing a village’s struggles with
illness and slavery.
Then take these diverse lives and weave them together in the story
of a modern-day woman, Amelia (who must deal with these other lives and her own
daily challenges, and who faces her own struggle to understand the connections
and messages that lie in her dreams and hypnotic state), and you have an
emotionally charged saga filled with three threads that lead back to one
tapestry of wonder.
Under a different hand, this saga of birth, death, and afterlife
could have easily proved confusing: it’s no simple matter to create three
disparate, very different lives, and weave them together with purpose and
discovery; no easy venture to bring all these pieces to life and then meld them
into one… a story that is quietly compelling: a moving saga highly recommended
for any reader interested in predetermination, past lives, and how three
disparate worlds weave together.
-- Midwest
Book Reviews
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Thank you for this interview! I’d like to know more about you as a person
first. What do you do when you’re not
writing?
There are so many things I like doing – but most of all, I
love reading, yoga, travelling and walking in the mountains. Now that writing
is my main occupation (other than raising three boys of course) I find that I
often have to make difficult choices such as: do I go to a yoga class or do I
write another page? I am hoping that when my boys are a little older, I’ll have
time for both!
When did you start writing?
When I was five, and I never stopped. It always seemed to be
an excellent way to escape into imaginary worlds, which I feel very comfortable
in.
As a published author, what would you say was the most
pivotal point of your writing life?
When I decided to leave my day-job and write full time. At
the time I was working during the day, spending the afternoons and evenings
with my family and the nights writing. After six months of this, something had
to give. And it wasn’t the family, or the writing.
If you could go anywhere in the world to start writing your
next book, where would that be and why?
Tibet
and Nepal. I’ve
never been but I’ve always felt drawn there. And I will get there, sooner or
later!
If you had 4 hours of extra time today, what would you do?
Laundry.
Where would you like to set a story that you haven’t done
yet?
Hmm… tough one. It would definitely be somewhere real – an
existing place, as I love to combine fictional story with real locations. I’ve
already set stories in many places, so perhaps the next one could be in Africa
– again!
Back to your present book, Recognitions, how did you publish it?
My publisher is John Hunt, a small
UK publisher that has a very forward-thinking publishing
strategy. They publish both established authors and first-time writers, but
will offer different contracts depending on how they think they can market your
book. And the entire publishing company is run by authors!
In writing your book, did you travel anywhere for research?
I wrote about places I already know, but I did travel in a
way – I’ve had some past-life-regressions. Recognitions
is based on some of those regressions, in fictionalized form.
Why was writing Recognitions
so important to you?
Before Recognitions I’ve
published a non-fiction spiritual journey book titled On Dragonfly Wings. However, because it is non-fiction, I felt that
some people had difficulties connecting to a spiritual journey if it was
presented as a ‘true story’ – which it was. I then decided to write about the
same themes – past lives and the possibly pre-determined role of people in our
lives – in fiction from. This way, as a novel, I am hoping that more people will
feel comfortable reading about these themes.
Where do you get your best ideas and why do you think that
is?
I get my best ideas from real people – I love watching
people and I do agree with whoever said that life is stranger than fiction.
People inspire me, amaze me, and also frustrate me sometimes. But it’s ok – it
all turns into writing material!
Any final words?
I am hoping that Recognitions
will appeal to the general readers, people who like reading novels with a bit
of mystery, a bit of history, a bit of emotion – and are not afraid to explore
spiritual themes too. Please feel free to connect with my via my website www.danielanorris.com facebook https://www.facebook.com/Daniela-I-Norris-179238064930/?ref=hl
or twitter @DanielaINorris and let me know what you think about Recognitions.
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