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Please note: This piece was first published in booksbywomen.org under the title “Authors Interviewing Characters by Tracy Shawn on October 3, 2021 Character Interview with Paloma Leary from Novel Floating Underwaterby Tracy ShawnAuthor Tracy Shawn Interviews Paloma Leary: Protagonist from Floating UnderwaterTracy Shawn: Paloma, you’ve experienced visions your entire life, and at

ByTracy ShawnBook Cover for Floating UnderwaterBelow are ten book club/reader questions that are included in my new novel, Floating Underwater. Please know there are no spoilers, so potential readers may check them out before reading the novel!Paloma feels she is a “hostage of her own mind” while experiencing a vision.

Eine Studie fasst zusammen, wie sich die EU in der Corona-Pandemie bewährt hat und wie ein besserer Gesundheitsschutz gelingen kann.

ByTracy Shawn, M.A.Ancestors by Tracy ShawnHospice workers across the world note that deathbed visions are a common occurrence. Loved ones and friends are often in awe when the dying share that they’re being visited by long-lost relatives, religious figures, and even beloved pets, who have long since passed. Scientists theorize

How to Turn a Toxic Conflict Into a Good One A new book explains why we get stuck in intractable conflicts and how to get out of them We’ve all been there: Locked in a heated argument, blood pressure rising, fixated on our next point rather than actually listening to what the other person has to say. Even after it ends, it doesn’t really end—we keep ruminating on it for hours, days, weeks. This is what journalist Amanda Ripley refers to as “high conflict”—and these days, we can slip...

How Reading Can Curtail Anxiety From: Tracy Shawn Reading, can indeed, reduce anxiety. But why? Stories provide an escape from our personal stressors and worries as well as a much-needed respite from world and local news. And reading not only offers an affordable and assessable break (it’s also a lot healthier than stress eating and...