Anna DeStefano's Blog

I fell in love with the idea of creating an exciting paranormal series based on things that are there, but not quite there. I’m fascinated by those parts of our lives that I think we’d see, if we’d let ourselves believe in what we can’t quite see. Dreams were a natural place to start–so dream theory became the basis for my August 25th release, Dark Legacy, and it sequel (Secret Legacy, due on shelves June ‘10).

And I’m so in love with everything I’ve learned about dream theory, I can’t wait for Dark Legacy to launch before I share a bit of it with you ;o) Check back each week for more fun dream reveals and discussions!

Today’s topic–How does what you believe affect your dreams, and how do your dreams affect what YOU believe? (more…)

I’ve had a lot of questions about how the dream theory in Dark Legacy works, and that’s going to be tough to explain until everyone has their copy. I don’t want to give too much away. But, it’ll be fun until then talking about the real-world dream theories I researched and based my Dark Legacy world on.

To wit–Dream Logic. To make Dark Legacy (and it’s sequel) work, there had to be a way to define dreams and also to intentionally alter their logic through psychic projection via the collective unconsciousness. See–you really have to read the book for that to all make sense. But before you do, we can talk a little about how dreams really do find their meanings and how you might be able to get a closer look at what’s going on while you sleep.

To start with… (more…)

That’s the title of the article I just finished for the September issue of Romantic Times (which will actually be on newstands and in mailboxes around the second week in August). Apropo, it would seem, since one of my all-time fav. dreams has been to publish mainstream fiction–and my paranormal romantic suspese debut, Dark Legacy, is out August 25th!

The article is a “behind the scenes” into the dream theory I based Dark Legacy’s world on. But since I only had 800 words to work with, it turned out to be mostly a tease. Hopefully, I’ll leaving you wanting to know more. Because, here on the blog every Friday (and on twitter most of the rest of the week), we’ll be talking all things dreams until you’re so sick of it you beg me to stop ;o) (more…)

The last few days, I’ve been writing an article on Dream Theory and my September Dark Legacy release, for Romantic Times magazine.I went back and reread my notebooks (yes, notebookS) and the small library of dream research I bought and studied while I pieced together the early plot. A lot of reflection ensued. And I found myself getting excited all over again by the science of dream theory and the possibilities that dreams offer our every day lives. Yes, my imagination has taken the concept of dream work and run with it to create a suspenseful paranormal world for my new series. But under all the craziness I’ve stirred up, I still see the great stuff you and I can learn about our dreams and our waking lives–as long as we’re willing to indulge our dreams and go along for the ride… (more…)

If Maddie Temple doesn’t take her dreams back in Dark Legacy, her world, her mother’s, her twin’s and possibly everyone else’s is going to end!

Yeah, I’ve kinda taken the warm and fuzzy idea of dreams to, shall we say, the next level. And I’m getting a lot of questions about why. So at least once a week–let’s talk dreams!

Why create a contemporary paranormal world where dreams control everyday life and can be manipulated to do the dreamer’s bidding? Well, because they do–for reals–and most of us rarely remember what our minds do the six or eight hours we sleep each night (okay writers, fess up, it’s more like two to four hours a night, but the same rule applies). Especially if we’re dreaming something uncomfortable or foreign to our everyday world. Or, as is the case for many of us, we’re not sure if we want to be that in touch with where our imagination goes when we give up our waking control. (more…)