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Joyce Mason

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Thanks for clicking into my little corner of the universe, the cyberspace station where our minds meet and mingle. (Can’t help but envision us, writer and readers, in that unique bar scene in the original Star Wars.) 

While we’re gathered here sipping exotic intergalactic cocktails or brew, this is my chance to tell you something from the heart. You, my readers, are the reason I’m living my dream and doing what I was born to do. Writer was always my destiny. It started coming into clear focus when I discovered pen pals at an early age. Little did I know then that I was practicing for having thousands of them all over the world in an electronic age I could not have begun to envision when I was a kid.

I’m still close to one of my first pen pals, and I have relationships with people from all over the world who I’ve never met. In the cases where we finally do meet in person, the power of the Internet becomes crystal clear—how we relate heart to heart and mind to mind, often getting to know each other from the inside out. What a gift and exciting time to be alive. I treasure this connection with you. And by the way, the other way I’m glad we relate is funny bone to funny bone.

I’m going to let you in on a secret about The Crystal Ball. I think it has a larger purpose. First, the Immortalists on Planet Earth Association and their Crystal Ball remind me of a Hogwarts for adults. That brings up the issue of Muggles in the Harry Potter movies—people who aren’t wizards and aren’t into magic. I believe The Crystal Ball has the potential to be a bridge between metaphysical people and Muggles. Most early readers of The Ball will likely be attracted to it because of its subgenre, visionary and metaphysical fiction.

But like Chiron, the informal patron saint of IOPEA and my blog The Radical Virgo, The Crystal Ball is a hybrid. It’s also a humorous mystery, a genre that appeals to all kinds of people. Viva diversity! I hope readers with all kinds of different beliefs and viewpoints will fall in love with Micki and Curt. I hope they discover something that may surprise them about people with ideas they consider a little too magical (or “out of touch with reality” as someone a lot like Curt once put it). Like Curt, I hope they’re pleasantly surprised to find Micki and her friends have a lot to offer about living life to the fullest.

It seems only fair to return that gift to you when you’ve made my dream come true—and made my life the fullest it has ever been.

To my fantastic readers— and To Life!

Joyce

New Website Release

Joyce Mason

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A major update of joycemason.com was released in tandem with The Crystal Ball on November 11, 2013.