{"id":6010,"date":"2015-06-12T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=6010"},"modified":"2015-06-12T07:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T06:00:59","slug":"dreams-and-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnhocking.net\/jg2025demo1\/reading\/dreams-and-nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams and Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What do you dream about? What is your worst nightmare?<\/p>\n

My good friend and sometimes co-conspirator Alison May has a new book out \u2013 Midsummer Dreams.<\/p>\n

To celebrate, she\u2019s holding a world-wide multi-mega-blog post on the subject of dreams. Midsummer Dreams is a romantic comedy \u2013 but that isn\u2019t keeping nightmares from sneaking into the blog posts.<\/p>\n

It’s all Alison\u2019s fault of course \u2013 she asked a bunch of authors three questions. She should have known that would lead to trouble…<\/p>\n

I had a dream\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026 that I would one day stand in a bookshop and see a book written by me on the shelves.<\/p>\n

Well, I have done that and I have to say it was a wonderful feeling. Which is a good thing, because it balances all the hard work involved in getting there. The first time you see that book, all the blood, sweat and tears seem to vanish. It\u2019s the same for the second book. And the third\u2026. This has led me to realise that there\u2019s a lot of hard work involved in dreams.<\/p>\n

If only I had a fairy godmother. Alison – are there fairies n this book? Can you spare one?<\/p>\n

I had a nightmare\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well \u2013 not so much my nightmare as a nightmare for the people around me.<\/p>\n

I ran out of book while on a plane. It was a short flight. Just three hours so I only took one book (this was before I had an e-reader). The problem was that the flight was delayed by three hours. We were half way between Australia and New Zealand when I read the last page. There was another hour and a half to go \u2013 and I had nothing to read!!!! Disaster! I started prowling the plane, looking over people\u2019s shoulders in the hope of finding a discarded magazine I could borrow.<\/p>\n

Luckily a flight attendant saw me. In a desperate bid to save the rest of the passengers form a terrifying sight of me without anything to read, she found a couple of magazines and newspapers at the back of the plane. They barely kept me going until we landed\u2026 but it was enough to save everyone on the plane from a terrible fate.<\/p>\n

My dream for the future\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

You mean, apart from the bit about being a rich and losing lots of weight? And becoming a better cook. And writing a fantasy novel. Travelling to Machu Picchu \u2013 and being fit enough to climb that huge mountain. And\u2026 lots of things.<\/p>\n

Dreams are what keep us going. When reality gets us down \u2013 dreams lift us back up. It could be something as simple as the thought of taking those high heels off and resting my aching feet. Or it could be a dream of flying. Or finding Aiden Turner and his scythe in my back garden.<\/p>\n

Hold fast to your dreams \u2013 because dreams are what make us human (or vampire or werewolf or whatever species we are).<\/p>\n

OK \u2013 so that\u2019s my bit of the dreamscape. There are a lot of other authors also talking about dreams and nightmares \u2013 to check out some of the others, pop over to Alison\u2019s blog <\/a>to get the links.<\/p>\n

And \u2013 if you\u2019re looking for a good book, you can download the kindle edition of Midsummer Dreams here:<\/a><\/p>\n

Four people. Four messy lives. One party that changes everything \u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Emily is obsessed with ending her father\u2019s new relationship \u2013 but is blind to the fact that her own is far from perfect.<\/p>\n

Dominic has spent so long making other people happy that he\u2019s hardly noticed he\u2019s not happy himself.<\/p>\n

Helen has loved the same man, unrequitedly, for ten years. Now she may have to face up to the fact that he will never be hers.<\/p>\n

Alex has always played the field. But when he finally meets a girl he wants to commit to, she is just out of his reach.<\/p>\n

At a midsummer wedding party, the bonds that tie the four friends together begin to unravel and show them that, sometimes, the sensible choice is not always the right one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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