LOVE AND MADNESS

It was in memory of a dear friend that I wrote THE SECRET BUTTERFLY SERIES(TM). I tried to imagine what her life might have been like had she been born into wealth before choosing her path in life, like the Marty character in the SERIES. Through Marty, I imagined my friend came back to me and followed her dream of becoming a star of intimate artistry. Her soul now lives with mine. It moves forward through time in the personas of Series' characters Barbara, Sheila, Cecilia, Connie, Jo Anne, Linda, Pattie, Sandra, and the others. The soul that arose in my friend has long walked alongside humanity's progress. It blessed humankind from across the millennia when it assumed the personas of Astarte, Sarah, Baaleezebelle, Salome, Cleopatra, and the others. The history of the Series' secret jewels intersects with the lives of its characters. Human life, debauchery, and depravity intertwine. Reflecting on what I wrote, I wonder whether characters Susan and Marvin's choices project justifications for my own choices? Could Susan's soul's quest actually be my own? Why was I compelled to describe Marty's explicit feelings while she seduced? Why was I so descriptive of her rapture while she murdered? Reaching my friend's soul required learning how spirits relate to humans. They communicate with us through the butterflies! It's true. I'm certain of it. Bertie's character illustrates the phenomenon. It happened with me as it did with her character. By relating to my friend's spirit in this straightforward way, I brought her soul to me. Now I can see her again and embrace her. We are together and happy again. I write because I enjoy writing. My writing interest grew from reading different authors. I read novels and enjoyed the stories. After some years I developed a fascination over how authors could express ideas and emotions through writing. I started seeing people differently. I tried understanding their characters and imagining what motivated them to be the way they were. I imagined what a character might be like if it were allowed to express its nature in different, fictional permutations of itself. Then, I began writing. While writing, I place my mind into the story, or saga, as I did in the SECRET BUTTERFLY SERIES(TM), and I let writing become part of my life. I felt compelled to move my three-volume saga (Passion; Insanity; Resurrection) forward; advance it to its conclusion. But, where I might have concluded first eleven SERIES books after LOVE AND LOVERS©, the eleventh book of the romantic, erotically filled Passion volume, I thought that would be disloyal to our characters' souls and their butterflies' spirits. I decided I needed to keep our precious characters alive, as they continued living through their tempest tossed Insanity Volume. Finally, I needed to reincarnate them; give them new hopes and lives. And, I did. MURDER PROPERLY DONE©; LOVE AND MADNESS©; AND BUTTERFLY LOVE© complete the Insanity volume of the SERIES. AND CRIMSON MARIPOSA©; CRIMSON AND PINK©; LUST WHEELS©; AND YES FOR LOVE©, book eighteen, finish the Resurrection Volume of the SERIES. And OMEGA, THE END©, bookends it. The three volumes complete my grand, secular antidote to religion as lived by the spiritual soul of heroine Marty.