Welcome Sharon!
Sharon Buchbinder is a wonderful friend and a great writer. And we’re both nurses except she’s got her PhD. Dang her!
I’m happy to announce her new release: Obsession.
Near Death Experiences (NDEs)
When I first started writing Obsession, I wanted to accurately describe my heroine’s near death experience (NDE) during childbirth. In college, I was fascinated (some say obsessed) with NDEs. I read Raymond A. Moody, Jr’s books on the topic, as well as Kenneth Ring’s research and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
As I reached out to others in the romance community about this topic, I made the acquaintance of a wonderful woman, Julia Barrett. We corresponded and became friends. Over time, I realized my fascination with NDEs was because I had had an NDE, too. However, I had never labeled it an NDE because I didn’t see a light or an angel. In communicating with Julia, I realized that NDEs have some core characteristics in common. However, each one is different. Julia met an angel, or as she called him, a companion. I never met anyone—except the police officer who brought me back to life.
I was fifteen. I was in our basement and reached behind the clothes dryer to pull something up—and completed a short circuit. Numb, unable to speak, seizing violently, the world became a black tunnel, then a sucking vortex that swept me away. No one leading me to the light. No companions. No angelic chorus. Just blackness. And a great sense of peace. Pain-free, I was okay with wherever I was. That didn’t last long.
I came to with a police officer, for whom I was supposed to babysit that evening, pounding on my chest, giving me CPR, dragging me back to this world, my entire body shaking, a stinging burn on my arm from the electricity (I still have the scar). Worst of all, my mother was going to be really, really pissed at me. I remember telling the police officer I was ready to babysit for him. I was that anxious to get away from my mother’s wrath. He kept shaking his head, in disbelief, saying, “No, you’re not. You’re going to the hospital.”
In Obsession, the heroine, Angie, struggles with believing she had a near death experience, as I did. Her intellect tells her there is no such thing as dying and coming back, no dark tunnels, no angels, and that the hormones of pregnancy and childbirth created a neurochemical stew that scrambled her brain. No plot spoilers here, however, I do have a question for readers? Do you believe in NDEs? If yes, have you had one? What occurred to convince you that it was real?
I will select one lucky commenter to receive one e-copy of his or her choice of books from my back list (available to US and International readers).
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A desperate mother.
A Mexican druglord.
A dangerous match.
A year after a barbaric childbirth, complete with a near-death experience and an encounter with her guardian angel, Angie Edmonds is just happy she and her son, Jake, are alive. She’s finally in a good place: clean, sober, and employed as a defense attorney. But at the end of a long work day, she finds herself in a parent’s worst nightmare: Jake has been kidnapped and taken across the Mexican border by a cult leader who believes the child is the “Chosen One.”
Stymied by the US and Mexican legal systems, Angie is forced to ask the head of a Mexican crime syndicate for help. Much to her chagrin, she must work with Alejandro Torres, a dangerously attractive criminal and the drug lord’s right-hand man. Little does she know Alejandro is an undercover federal agent, equally terrified of blowing his cover—and falling in love with her.
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Buy Link for Obsession http://www.amazon.com/Obsession-ebook/dp/B00CGOGT12/
Obsession Book Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1kujUWoGbk
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Author Bio and Links
After working in health care delivery for years, Sharon Buchbinder became an association executive, a health care researcher, and an academic in higher education. She had it all-a terrific, supportive husband, an amazing son and a wonderful job. But that itch to write (some call it an obsession) kept beckoning her to “come on back” to writing fiction. When not attempting to make students, colleagues, and babies laugh, she can be found herding cats, waiting on a large gray dog, fishing, dining with good friends, or writing. You can find her at www.sharonbuchbinder.com
Paranormal Romance Guild Winner Best Mystery/Thriller, 2012
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Where Sharon Buchbinder can be found on the Internet
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(Note from Julia… This book looks so good! It’s on my read as soon as possible list!)
Thanks for having me here today, Julia! I’m honored!!
Hugs,
Sharon
Love having you, Sharon!
Congrats on the new release, Sharon. While I’ve never experienced a NDE I believe they happen. Many have common elements to their experiences, which makes me feel there’s something to them.
Had a couple as a teen. And people wonder why I didn’t think I would make it to 30. It is comfortable and peaceful.
Ha! thought when you mentioned that Julia said she had met an angel, I was being talked about again, but then I kept reading … ah well bummed out again…
I know how you feel, I’m guessing you had those electric fires with the fake charcoal in the front with the red bulb and the little fan on top underneath the fake charcoal that is, to give the appearance of a lit fire… went to change the bulb when I was about 14 took the old bulb out put the new bulb in and it was a bit of a tight fitting so stuck my other hand underneath to grip the fitting and hold it while I twisted the bulb into place - stuck my finger in hadn’t pulled the plug out at the wall and sizzled away - I always hesitate to this day about changing any bulb - mind you that was the least of my worries since then but hey ho…..
Oh! did I say welcome to Jule’s blog, I didn’t gosh how forgetful — WELCOME XXXX makes a change not hearing about Jake only kidding sweet pea
Amber Skyze, yes, I think more science is being devoted to this, so I expect to see more publications in medical journals about the NDE than we’ve had in the past.
Steph, glad you made it back to the living! I often think about how frightened some are by death. It’s not the “other side” that scares me now, it’s the transition, i.e., getting there!
Tom, I heard you are Julia’s angel!
You know well the “thrill” of electrocution. I can only say it was fast. Not painful, per se, but not a sensation I care to relive!
Thanks for stopping by and commenting, everyone!
Sharon
Don’t sweat it, Tom. You get to hear more about Jake tomorrow!
Hi Sharon, Congrats on your new release. Your book sounds amazing and it has gone to the top of my TBR list. I totally agree with you, not all NDEs are the same. The first one I experienced was while I was in the OR shortly after my youngest son was born. No angels, no tunnels, well at least I don’t remember one but what I do remember was the room. I was looking at all the doctors and nurses as they worked like “mad men” on a woman lying on the table… guess it was me. Anyway, I was quite interested in what they were doing. The doctor told me the when I came to after the surgery, legally I had been dead for close to four minutes. The bruises I had on my chest lasted for weeks…
It was five years later when I had an MI while bowling. Down on the lane I went… again, I was very intrigued with what everyone was doing. The paramedics were there and the crowd gathered around this woman as they worked furiously on her. Next thing I knew I woke up in the hospital’s CCU unit.
Thanks so much for sharing your story and your new release with us. V
Hi Sharon!! Isn’t Julia wonderful? Congrats on the new release. And what an incredible experience and thank goodness you are still with us!
Sounds like a good read……..the kind you start and can’t put down. I’ll have to stop reading non-fiction long enough to read Obession.
Hi Virginia-Thanks for sharing your NDE, I’ve read of many people who experienced that floating on the ceiling phenomena, including an RN friend who also had an MI. I’ll be interested to see if you feel like I got the NDEs right in the book!
Casey-Yes, Julia is da bomb!!! Thanks for your kind words and yes, while it’s pretty peaceful “over there” I like being here with my family and new grandbabies!!
Wow, what a tale. Definitely need to check out the books. Thanks, Julia and Sharon.
Thanks for stopping by, Jaye and for your kind comments!
Hi Roberta-Thank you for reading and commenting. I know what you mean. I spent 2 years researching Obsession. When you read the acknowledgements, you’ll find lots of non-fiction to pique your interest.
Obsession sounds great, Sharon! Can’t wait to read it! My brother had an NDE at eighteen after a car accident. He had head injuries and was seizing, went through the tunnel to a white light and was met by our deceased grand-father and our German Shepherd (I love that part). My brother was told it wasn’t time yet and was physically pushed back, he woke up to people working on him. He told me it was the most incredible, loving feeling on the other side. I’m banking on that-and being met by all my loved ones and pets who went before!!
Also had an aunt who experience an NDE-she said all her friends were there drinking coffee and it felt like a party.
Oh Patty, I love your story!