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I often wonder where authors get their ideas for stories.  Today, I am going to tell you where my story ideas came from.

I love watching Ghost Hunters, the Dead Files and Long Island Medium.  While watching Ghost Hunters one evening I started thinking about how a romance could be woven into a story about a Ghost Hunter.  I knew I wanted it set in Bend, OR. I like all the different coffee houses in town, so I had to include one, Backporch Coffee Roasters.

I researched unexplained happenings in Bend, OR. I found some documented haunted buildings and even a grave yard that has unexplained blue orbs. These facts were added into my story for local flavor.

It was interesting coming up with these ideas and doing the research.

What interesting facts have you found about your town?

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by Diana McCollum

In writing "Ghost of a Chance" I searched the inter-net for information on haunted places in Bend, OR.  Below is a link to the full article on ghosts in Bend. 

• http://www.examiner.com/article/haunted-places-bend-ore
• Quoted from Examiner.com:
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• "Congress House: Reports of families who have lived there and died there due to living in a cursed house.
• The Pilot Butte Cemetery: Reports of blue orbs have been seen.
• The Lara House Lodge
• The Deschutes County Historical Society building
• The O’Kane Building: Their have been reports of ghostly smoke, footsteps and voices from a long dead waitress who may have once worked in the restaurant. Some say that the basement of the building is haunted by an old man."

I made sure more than one source listed the haunted sites I mentioned in my story.

Does your town have public places documented to have ghosts, cursed houses, or unexplained happenings?

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Love & Magick is a collection of mystical stories of romance. Why mystical romance? My thesaurus tells me mystical = spiritual, magical, supernatural, transcendent, preternatural. Our stories include elements of fairytales, alternative spirituality, restless spirits, curses, enchantments, witches, wise women second sight...

Mystical seems to fit, doesn't it?