Today I will be doing an author feature to the one and only author of the 'Dreams Series', JJ DiBenedetto.
Author Bio:
J.J. (James) DiBenedetto was born in Yonkers, New York. He attended
Case Western Reserve University, where as his classmates can attest, he was a
complete nerd. Very little has changed since then.
He currently lives in Arlington, Virginia with his beautiful
wife and their cat (who has thoroughly trained them both). When he's not
writing, James works in the direct marketing field, enjoys the opera,
photography and the New York Giants, among other interests.
The "Dreams" series is James' first
published work.
The 'Dreams' Series:
Dream Student (Dreams # 1)
Published by: Amazon Digital Services Inc. and CreateSpace
Pages: Kindle - 287 , Paperback - 286
What would you do if you could see other people’s dreams?
If you could watch their hidden fantasies and uncover their deepest, darkest
secrets…without them ever knowing?
Sara Barnes is about to find out. She thought that
all she had to worry about was final exams, Christmas shopping and deciding
whether she likes the cute freshman in the next dorm who’s got a crush on her.
But when she starts seeing dreams that aren’t hers, she
learns more than she ever wanted to know about her friends, her classmates…and
a strange, terrifying man whose dreams could get Sara killed.
“Dream Student” is the
thrilling first installment of the Dreams series.
Excerpt:
I have to admit, it feels very strange to be drinking wine,
like an actual adult, with my parents.
When I’m at school, obviously, I don’t have these thoughts. I’m twenty one years old. I’m in charge of my life, making real,
important choices. I’m working hard,
making serious progress on as adult a goal as I can think of. I’m in a real, serious relationship with a
man I love. Then of course there are the
damned nightmares, and the fact that I’m still even close to being in one piece
after several weeks of them qualifies me as a functioning grown-up for sure.
Still, something happens to me when I come home from school,
even now, even though rationally I should know better. It’s not that Mom and Dad do anything,
really, to make me feel that way – it’s pretty much all in my head.
I realize that partly it’s just the fact of sleeping in the
same bed I’ve slept in since I was in kindergarten, and looking at the picture
of Kermit the Frog that’s been on my wall since 1977 or so as I fall
asleep. Everywhere I look in my bedroom
there’s a reminder of my childhood.
Especially the poor ratty, dog-chewed
stuffed rabbit that’s sitting on my bed right now. Good old Mister Pennington.
But right now, my father is looking at me very
differently. He’s been ever since lunch
and I just now realized that’s why. I
guess he was right, when he said I’m slow on the uptake. What it is, is he’s seeing me as really and truly an adult for the first
time. Well, if he thinks I am, I
certainly ought to be able to believe it myself.
I get more proof when we get home. Mom and Dad don’t know it, but I learned
years ago, when the conditions are just right and the heating vents in their
room and my room are both open but the heat isn’t actually blowing in either
room, I can hear them quite clearly.
What I hear tonight, as they’re getting ready for bed, is
Dad telling Mom about his day with me.
Then he tells her that he’s thinking about putting off the big kitchen
renovation they’ve been planning for the last year. He wants to save the money for something much
more important that he thinks might be coming a lot sooner than he expected.
My wedding.
I don’t know what to say to that.
I’m willing to bet that Mom and I have exactly the same
expression on our faces right now, and that we both just went precisely the
same shade of white. I don’t know how I
keep from fainting at the shock of hearing those words.
There’s only one reasonable thing to do then. I jump out of bed and over to the thermostat,
crank the heat as high as it will go and with the blast of hot air out of the
vent, the voices of my parents are gone.
I lay back down on my bed, grab Mister Pennington to me in a death grip,
and try to put my father’s crazy words out of my mind and fall asleep.
***
Two hours later I’m still
clutching Mister Pennington, and Lumpy is snoring at the foot of the bed. I’m finally just now drifting off to
sleep. The last thing that goes through
my mind before I’m out is that, maybe, my father’s crazy words might not be
quite so crazy after all.
Dream Doctor (Dreams # 2)
Published by: Amazon Digital Services Inc. and CreateSpace
Pages: Kindle - 270 , Paperback - 270
Blurb:
“I didn’t expect to be woken up by someone I don’t know dreaming
about killing somebody. I thought I was done with that once and for all…”
But Sara’s not done with it. As if adjusting to life
as a newlywed and starting medical school weren’t difficult enough, she’s
started seeing the dreams of everyone around her, again. Before
everything is said and done, those dreams might destroy Sara’s hopes of
becoming a doctor, wreck her marriage and even end her life…
“Dream Doctor” is the
thrilling second novel in the Dreams series.
Dream Child (Dreams # 3)
Published by: Amazon Digital Services Inc. and CreateSpace
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Mystery
Format: Paperback, Kindle
Format: Paperback, Kindle
Pages: Kindle - 278 , Paperback - 278
Blurb:
"I would give anything to take this away from
her. I would gladly go back to having the nightmares myself – the very
worst ones, the ones that had me waking up screaming in a pool of my own vomit
– rather than see Lizzie go through this..."
As a resident at Children's Hospital, Sara can handle
ninety hour workweeks, fighting to save her young patients from deadly
childhood diseases. But she's about to be faced with a challenge that all
her training and experience haven't prepared her for: her four-year-old
daughter has inherited her ability to see other people's dreams...
"Dream Child"
is the suspenseful third novel in the "Dreams" series.
Dream Family (Dreams # 4)
Published by: Amazon Digital Services Inc. and CreateSpace
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Mystery
Format: Paperback, Kindle
Format: Paperback, Kindle
Pages: Kindle - 333 , Paperback - 332
Blurb:
"Why is this so hard for me? Why am I having so much
trouble? Why do I feel so helpless, so hopeless? What the hell is wrong
with me?"
After tangling with murders and mobsters, not to mention
medical school and three years of residency, Sara thought she could handle
anything. And then the police show up without warning at her new office
and arrest her for a crime she can't possibly have committed. Sara's
confidence, and her grip on reality, is shattered during one terrifying night
in jail.
Now, the very dreams that have endangered her life and
driven her to the edge of madness may be the only thing that can help Sara find
herself again...
"Dream
Family" is the powerful fourth novel in the "Dreams" series.
Waking Dream (Dreams # 5)
Published by: Amazon Digital Services Inc. and CreateSpace
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Mystery
Format: Paperback, Kindle
Format: Paperback, Kindle
Pages: Kindle - 292 , Paperback - 292
Blurb:
“Oh, God! We can hurt each other. Whatever we do to each other in the dream, we’ll do it to ourselves for real…”
When her own dreams are visited by a mysterious woman in a red dress, Sara realizes she has something she never expected: a counterpart, someone outside her family who shares her talent to see other people’s dreams.
When the woman in red keeps showing up in other dreams as well, leaving ruined lives in her wake, Sara knows she has something she never imagined: a nemesis.
Now, Sara must track the woman in red down in the waking world, before she’s forced to fight for her life in her dreams…
When her own dreams are visited by a mysterious woman in a red dress, Sara realizes she has something she never expected: a counterpart, someone outside her family who shares her talent to see other people’s dreams.
When the woman in red keeps showing up in other dreams as well, leaving ruined lives in her wake, Sara knows she has something she never imagined: a nemesis.
Now, Sara must track the woman in red down in the waking world, before she’s forced to fight for her life in her dreams…
Dream Reunion (Dreams # 6)
Published by: Amazon Digital Services Inc. and CreateSpace
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Mystery
Format: Paperback, Kindle
Format: Paperback, Kindle
Pages: Kindle - 254 , Paperback - 250
Blurb:
"I wish someone - my mother, my husband, anybody - would really let me have it, instead of telling me everything's not my fault when it obviously is..."
Sara's seen the cost of interfering in other people's dreams firsthand; it's measured in ruined lives and cemetery plots. When her supernatural dreams start up again, Sara is faced with problem after problem. And the only solution she can see is the one she's sworn never to attempt - changing the minds of the dreamers from the inside-out. Sara thought that fighting against serial killers, mobsters and crooked politicians was difficult, but she's about to come up against the most difficult foe she's ever faced: her own conscience.
Dream Reunion is the emotional sixth book in the Dream Series.
Sara's seen the cost of interfering in other people's dreams firsthand; it's measured in ruined lives and cemetery plots. When her supernatural dreams start up again, Sara is faced with problem after problem. And the only solution she can see is the one she's sworn never to attempt - changing the minds of the dreamers from the inside-out. Sara thought that fighting against serial killers, mobsters and crooked politicians was difficult, but she's about to come up against the most difficult foe she's ever faced: her own conscience.
Dream Reunion is the emotional sixth book in the Dream Series.
Dream Home (Dreams # 7)
Published by: Amazon Digital Services Inc. and CreateSpace
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Mystery
Format: Paperback, Kindle
Format: Paperback, Kindle
Pages: Kindle - 280 , Paperback - 278
Blurb:
“Oh, my God, I’m not even starting the job for four months! How can I have an enemy already?”
Sara thought she had found the perfect job, the perfect new house and the perfect place to build a bright future for herself and her family. But her new life is not quite perfect. Her husband and her children are fitting right in, but before Sara even shows up for her first day of work, her coworkers are dreaming about getting rid of her. If that wasn’t bad enough, the one friend she’s made is dreaming nightly about a disaster that could wipe out the entire town…and Sara is beginning to think he might be right…
Dream Home is the exciting seventh book in the Dream Series.
Sara thought she had found the perfect job, the perfect new house and the perfect place to build a bright future for herself and her family. But her new life is not quite perfect. Her husband and her children are fitting right in, but before Sara even shows up for her first day of work, her coworkers are dreaming about getting rid of her. If that wasn’t bad enough, the one friend she’s made is dreaming nightly about a disaster that could wipe out the entire town…and Sara is beginning to think he might be right…
Dream Home is the exciting seventh book in the Dream Series.
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I believe that there's this 8th book coming up, not sure with it though. I think it'll be called 'Dream Vacation.' I am really hoping you'd hear about it first, on Bittersweet Blogs.
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