Peggy Payne

I’m a writer who dodged being a minister; I saw that my dharma, my calling, was instead to write novels about the biggest mysteries: life after death, life before death, The Other Side. I explore in fiction my metaphysical questions, with the certainty anything is possible.

I’ve spent the past 50+ years as a freelancer, with 4 novels, 2 nonfiction books, magazine and newspaper articles from 25+ countries, a few seasons as a TV reporter, copy for ad agencies, a winter in India, and my manuscript and career consulting services for writers.

Married to a now-retired psychologist (Bob Dick www.drbobdick.com), I live in a log house in deep woods in rural Chatham County, North Carolina.Plan B life in NYC. Interested in the psychic and supernatural. Still planning to learn to surf.

My novels:

MY LIFE ON EARTH AND ELSEWHERE https://www.amazon.com/Life-Earth-Els... Sixteen-year-old Darcy has an out-of-body experience and falls in love with a spirit at the same time her father is going through a more traditional religious conversion. Darcy tries to bring together life in the astral zone and in high school.

SISTER INDIA https://www.amazon.com/Sister-India-P...

A young woman tries to escape trouble in her American life by moving to a Hindu holy city. A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the Year.

Set in Varanasi/Benares, where I spent an intense and tumultuous and wonderful winter.

REVELATION

https://www.amazon.com/Revelation-Peg... A minister at a liberal university-town church starts hearing the voice of God. Seriously. Not a comedy. His academically-minded congregation wants him to get psychotherapy. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Editors' Choice.

My nonfiction: THE HEALING POWER OF DOING GOOD (co-author)https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Power-... and a women's clothing company history: DONCASTER: A LEGACY OF PERSONAL STYLE https://www.amazon.com/Doncaster-lega...

I also run a consulting service for writers, offering manuscript critiques and career counsel. peggypayne.com/manuscript-review/

Am an ardent-but-slapdash woodland gardener, kayaker, reader, magazine junkie, and crossworder

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