Fantastic Guest!!! Victoria Roder

My wonderful visitors and friends, please make welcome a terrific guest, Victoria Roder. I am excited to have her here and want to make sure she feels part of the family. Victoria... welcome!

Visions…nightmares, and murder. If recurring dreams left you awake night after night in a frightened chill, would you search for their meaning? When it comes to the past the truth can be more frightening than a nightmare. That is the premise for my paranormal romance, The Dream House Visions And Nightmares published by Asylett Press.

I am author Victoria Roder and I live in central Wisconsin with my husband Ron and a house full of misfit pets. I began having recurring dreams about a house that my birth family lived in for a brief period of time when I was a child. Even with the passage of time, in the dreams I remained a young girl. I could see myself standing on a desolate street void of sound, lights, or cars. Next, instead of watching myself I starred through my own eyes at the ominous house. The dream never progressed, and I never entered the house. Each time I woke up I knew that I had experienced the dream before. The dream began to trouble me, so I discussed it with my sister Tammy. She suggested I write it down, in the hope that it wouldn’t bother me anymore.

I began recording the details of the dream and then instead of it not bothering me, it consumed me. I continued to dream about the house, but now the dreams began to evolve and take on a life of their own. It became a movie in my imagination; the characters developed and demanded screen time. I placed a notebook, flashlight, and pen beside the bed. My husband would wake up to find me holding the flashlight and frantically scribbling in the notebook.

The Dream House Visions And Nightmares is a murder mystery wrapped in a paranormal ghost story. Apparitions and vivid dreams reveal clues of mystery, murder, and age-old revenge. Recurring dreams of a house Hope Graham's family rented when she was a child, taunt her nights with images of a woman in a bloody nightgown pleading for help. Dream sequences of children metamorphosing into rats, blood spewing out of windows, and walking across decaying bones, foretell of sins of the past and forewarn of danger in the present. In an attempt to end the agony of her sleep deprivation, Hope travels to her hometown...only to discover that the truth can be more frightening than a nightmare.

Please check out my website www.victoriaroder.com where you can find out more about me and view the link I used for research on Dream Interpretation. The Dream House Visions And Nightmares, is available on the publisher’s website asylettpress.com, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com. My Action Thriller, Bolt Action is due out April 2010 from Champagn

Excerpt from The Dream House Visions And Nightmares, Asylett Press July 2009

I looked up and down the dimly lit street.

There was no evidence of life. Nor were there any sounds. No dogs barking. No horns honking. No children playing. Nothing. I focused on the house-on its paneless windows, weathered boards and dilapidated porch sinking into a sea of overgrown grass and weeds-and nausea overcame me as an overwhelming moldy odor permeated the air. The look of the house didn't make my skin crawl; it was the essence of it.

I watched the dilapidated house-it moved closer. Perhaps it lured me to it. I began to shiver. I looked down at the white cotton nightgown that I wore. Silk embossed flowers decorated the bodice. I was still straining to hear a sound when I realized, the blood had saturated my gown until it had become a second skin.

I felt a tug on my gown. I looked down-Rae's hair cascaded over her face as she clasped my hem through the fence. She pleaded, "Please, help me, please. Can't you hear my children screaming?"

I struggled to get away...