Guest Post & Giveaway: Hillary Seidl

The Mysterious-Flying Towel

By Hillary Seidl

            Hi Everyone!! Thank you Melissa for having me today!  My name is Hillary Seidl and I’m obsessed with the paranormal.

            At age nine I had my first paranormal experience with a ghost.  I was staying at my grandparents and I had taken a shower.  While finishing my nightly ritual, I turned to see my wet discarded towel fly a good five feet out of my grandparents room and land by the washer.  I wasn’t frightened because I thought my grandma had done it.  So I yelled, “Sorry, grandma!”  Less than ten seconds later I walked to her room. My grandma was snoring.  It hit me then she couldn’t have thrown the towel. 

I stood there confused.  I replayed it in my head a couple of times.  My brain didn’t want to accept it so I woke up my grandma and asked her.  She had no idea what I was talking about.  My sweet catholic grandmother doesn’t lie and why would she about a towel?

That incident is what started my paranormal journey. 

            In high school, I learned all I could and did all my papers on the paranormal.  I was in ecstasy when The X-Files caught my attention and I made my family watch every Friday night.  That’s when I discovered fan fiction.  Writing back then was like a compulsion.  I took other people’s characters and made them my own.  (With a disclaimer—of course) I had a 300-page fan fiction when I was sixteen.  It was pretty bad, but I knew I wanted to be a writer. 

            I ignored the calling to try and be normal.  I know, I know, I shouldn’t say that.  But I had no idea what to do with my life thinking being an author was out of my reach. Then it happened… Supernatural!  Love the show and the characters. I even went to a convention in Vancouver to meet the actors. Completely awesome!

Writing Supernatural fan fiction came easy to me and I realized through that that I knew what I wanted to do.  Paranormal romance.  When I found my local chapter of RWA, the Colorado Romance Writers I finally found where I belonged. It was like coming home!

            My first novella, Finding Ms. Wright: Sia is out from 5 Prince Publishing.  You can find it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

 SIA: Paranormal hunter Andrew Grant has less than a week to locate a stone and thwart a wizard's bid for ultimate power.  Sia holds the key to his success, and to his heart.  Only together can they discover love and save the world.

Have you ever had a paranormal experience?  Do you believe ghosts are real? 

Thank you so much for having me, Melissa Schroeder!  I would love to give an ebook away to a lucky commenter!  (U.S. only.)