Get into a groovy 60s mood by listening to a free spotify playlist I curated exclusively for Now is the Time of Monsters. Enjoy 60 songs from the late-1960s which I listened to daily over the ten month period it took to craft the story. Enjoy!
Special thanks to everyone who helped me with this book including my wife and #1 Beta Reader, Crystal Mock; Dakota Lawrence for his friendship, support and insight into his daily world as a truly gifted psychic; Jeremy Carlisle Parker for serving as a sounding board for my approach to this challenging novel; all the amazing people at Tantor Audio for believing in my work and publishing the audiobook versions of all my books; and last but perhaps most important of all, thank you to YOU, the incredible reader, without whom none of this would exist.
I love you all!
A great deal of the time involved in the creation of Now is the Time of Monsters went into extensive research—before and during the writing process—to make the story as realistic, believable and true to the topic and era as possible. It was important to me that I faithfully capture the volatile and monumental time in our world history that was the late-1960s, as well as gaining the knowledge to accurately depict the mental illness known as Dissociative Identity Disorder, or DID (Multiple Personality Disorder, or MPD, in the 1960s). While the total breadth and depth of research undertaken was more than I can list here, some of the more notable sources were:
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AUTHOR ANONYMOUS, Dissociative Jess (blog), https://dissociativejess.wordpress.com/
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AUTHOR ANONYMOUS, NASA (website), July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind, https://www.nasa.gov/history/july-20-1969-one-giant-leap-for-mankind/
AUTHOR ANONYMOUS, Social Security Administration (website), Popular names of the period 1940s, https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names1940s.html
AUTHOR ANONYMOUS, The 60s Official Site (website), 60s Slang, https://www.the60sofficialsite.com/60s-Slang.html
AUTHOR ANONYMOUS, Universal Class (website), A Brief History of Forensic Investigation, https://www.universalclass.com/articles/law/history-of-forensic-investigation.htm#:~:text=By%20the%20mid%201960s%2C%20forensic,mortem%20cooling%20had%20been%20perfected.
AUTHORS ANONYMOUS, University of Michigan (website), Resistance and Revolution: the Anti-Vietnam War Movement at the University of Michigan, 1965-1972, The military draft during the Vietnam War, https://michiganintheworld.history.lsa.umich.edu/antivietnamwar/exhibits/show/exhibit/draft_protests/the-military-draft-during-the-
AUTHOR ANONYMOUS, Wikipedia (website), Beat Generation, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation
AUTHOR ANONYMOUS, Wikipedia (website), Summer of Love, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love
AUTHOR ANONYMOUS, Wikisource (website), The Zodiac Halloween Card (Oct 27th, 1970) mailed to Paul Avery of the San Francisco Chronicle from the Zodiac Killer, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer_letter,_October_27th_1970
Bailey, Aubrey, PT, DPT, CHT, Very Well Health (website), Symptoms of Different Types of Dissociative Disorders, https://www.verywellhealth.com/dissociative-disorder-symptoms-5211585
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Brennan, Ian and Murphy, Ryan, Netflix (limited series, 2022), Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Christensen, Emily, Wikihow (website), How to Read Tarot Cards, https://www.wikihow.com/Read-Tarot-Cards
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Rosewood, Jack and Lo, Rebecca, The Big Book of Serial Killers - Volume 2 (LAK Publishing, 2017)
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