It is my pleasure to host author Maranda Deitsch on my blog today.

Me: What made you pen down Blinded By Songs of Starlight?

Maranda: I had lost the ability to read for several years, due to pain from my injuries. When I regained the ability to read and write, I used writing this to process my back boxes, to try to heal some of my trauma.

Me: What should readers expect from it?

Maranda: Unusual formatting, tales both frightening and beautiful. Fantastical, from Dragons to aliens and everything in-between,

this is my first hand recounting of the things I have experienced and seen.

Me: What caused your PTSD?

Maranda: I am going to gently say, it was more then one book could hold.

I do not want to trigger your readers, by laying these harsh truths bare without warning.

Only that my past is so traumatic that I cannot easily talk about it, it scares even professionals.

Multiple rape survivor, starving, neglect, medical mishandling that left me filled with wounds I had to heal by myself at home.

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Me: When were your conditions diagnosed?

Maranda: The PTSD was diagnosed first, about 8 years ago.

The Synesthesia, Dylsexia, Phsycosematic Pain disorder and Big S (Schitzophrenia) were diagnosed 2 years ago.

Me: Define yourself in three words.

Maranda: Mixed-media artist. (+Mother)

Me: Do you wish there were more books like this when you were struggling to understand your condition?

Maranda: Truly I wish there were more books formatted with the "breathing space" I added.

My Dyslexia makes it almost impossible to read traditional, fine walls of text.

I wish I had a book that told me that no matter what I experienced, I was still loved.

This book does that.

Me: What message would you give our readers who are experiencing the same?

Maranda: You are valid.

You are loved.

Please, eat a variety of human food groups.

Drink things.

Hug something soft.

Thank you, you at home, for doing your best.

It takes all of our hard work to give us all the human treasures and quality of life any of us have.

Please don't give up.

Brighter futures will come for us all, someday.

Across space and time, I'll see you there one day.

Me: Are there any new projects underway?

Maranda: Yes! I am working on book 2.

I've got a work-up of the last page finished.

('Cause I believe there is no bad place to start writing, and the end still counts.)

I've got a lot of labels that cloudy matters. Schitzophrenia, Dyslexia, Synesthesia, PTSD, Identical-twin, Mother, Survivor, just to name a few.

Here's to all of us that don't want to be categorized by only one of them. I'll give my sign language name, the rest I'll implore you to find out inside my book.

Take two digits from your rightmost forelimb.

Tap twice, between your eye brows.

Tap twice, on your chin.

Tap once, in the center of your chest.

Draw a big heart with both forelimbs above this place.

Say, "Honoured Matron" in this space.

Tap twice your chest again with your two digits of your right forelimb.

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