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Volume 79 • No. 38
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Tanya Reimer, local author, releases book from new series
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Tanya Reimer - seen here in a photo from last year with her novels “Ghosts on the Prairies” and “Petrified” at the Manor Library - recently released the first novel, “Can’t Dream Without You,” in her new series, The Dark Chronicles now available in digital form and to be published in print this April. Kelly Running Observer Staff
January was an exciting time for local author, Tanya Reimer of Bellegarde, who saw the release of a new book, “Can’t Dream Without You”, the first in her series, The Dark Chronicles. The Dark Chronicles is a series focused on Whisperers who are on a journey back to immortality following The War of 2019. The Whisperers also made an appearance in a previous novel by Reimer, “Petrified”. “It shares the same concept of magical Whisperers haunting the prairies, but it’s part of an adult collection set in the near future after a war in 2019,” Reimer explained. In, “Can’t Dream Without You”, Reimer’s character Steve is no ordinary person. “[Steve] plays with demons, his soul travels to a dream realm at night using mystical butterflies, and soon he’ll earn the power to raise the dead,” a press release from Elsewhen Press states. Steve’s father, Al, is determined to make the world a better place, but to do this it appears he must kill his own son. So, on Steve’s sixteenth birthday, Al conducts a ritual transferring the dark magic his son was wielding to a girl he could kill instead. Steve discovers what his father has done and
is determined to prevent the murder, so he takes Julia’s soul to the dream realm. Spending five years there, Steve begins wondering what’s real and what’s a dream, or more accurately, a nightmare. “This is actually a little story I started many years ago, in fact, the first draft saw the light over 18 years ago,” Reimer explained. “It was originally planned to be a horror story about someone who was kidnapped from their job, escapes and returns to kidnap her attacker. In a sense those elements are still in the book, but now with different twists. During that first draft, I had no idea Steve and Julia were Whisperers and I’m glad I revisited the magic.” “The collection [Dark Chronicles] follows the journey of several different Dark Whisperers as they struggle to see the Light. Steve and Julia were a great way to open this collection of dark stories as well as introduce adults to the darker side of Whisperers.” “I had three influences for this particular story from the Dark Chronicles. One was Cannington Lake, not far from Carlyle. I went there a few times while working on this story, and found the area inspired a lot of the scenes. The other was my job when I wrote the first draft. I was, at the time, working in a grocery store. The owner gave me a warning to never unload freight alone when the store was closed, for safety reasons. Of course,
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“I find it [the cover art] very inspiring and symbolic,” Tanya Reimer explained. “The butterfly demons balanced with the hope of angels are symbolic to the story and the struggle between light and dark. The artist is very talented and captured those demon butterflies that take Steve from our world to the dream world in a way that Steve would say, “is just right.” my imagination took off and I got thinking about a bunch of bad things that could happen! What if I was kidnapped by the driver while unloading freight and tossed in the semi!? The last bit of inspiration came from my own still unpublished works of Whisperers.” The book is currently out in digital form and will be published, in print, this April. Reimer has always been interested in writing, which began when she was in high school, at the age of 15, for the Redvers Optimist. Reimer had a weekly column and her love of writing grew, leading to Reimer successfully writing to completion a book at the age of 18-years-old.
See Tanya Reimer on page 3
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