The Dream Doctor Mysteries by J.J. DiBenedetto are on virtual book tour. The paranormal mystery series stops at Readeropolis...
The Dream Doctor Mysteries by J.J. DiBenedetto are on virtual book tour.
The paranormal mystery series stops at Readeropolis with an excerpt.
The paranormal mystery series stops at Readeropolis with an excerpt.
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What’s in a Name? The Fun of Choosing Book Titles
I’ve always been very hit or miss with titles for the stories I’ve written. Either I know the title immediately, or it’s like pulling teeth to come up with something I feel good about, even after the whole book is written.
The Dream Doctor Mysteries fall squarely into the latter category. As I wrote the original first draft of what would become DREAM STUDENT, I had a placeholder title of “Dreamchasers” which I really didn’t like, but it seemed to sort of fit the story I was telling.
It wasn’t until I not only had a complete book, but I’d started work on the sequel (I still have the original Word file of that, titled “Dreamchasers 2”) that I finally came up with Dream Student, which I still didn’t love, but at least it sounded a little better than Dreamchasers, and it was thematically appropriate (Sara’s a college student in that book, and she’s also learning about her supernatural ability to step into other people’s dreams).
Once I had that, and I realized this could be a longer series, I had the idea that each title would follow the same formula, and there are enough short phrases using “dream” that I could work with it. So the second book (which is now the first book of the series, while DREAM STUDENT is now a prequel) became DREAM DOCTOR. Sara is in medical school, training to become a doctor, so it fit.
I was about 2/3 of the way through that book when it occurred to me what would happen at the very end of that book, after the climax of the main plot, and how it could set up the next book. Sara, who was now married, would find out she was pregnant, and that logically led to the title of DREAM CHILD for the following book. And at the same time, it hit me that the final book of the series – however many books in the future that might be – had to be called DREAM WEDDING, and it would have to feature Sara’s daughter getting married (each book skips ahead in time – the ten books of the series cover 25 years in Sara’s life).
There were a couple of other obvious titles that I knew would come up somewhere in the series – DREAM REUNION (book five, in which Sara attends her ten year college reunion), and DREAM VACATION (which kept getting pushed back and ended up becoming book seven).
The overall series title went through some revisions, too. It started out as simply “the Dream Series” which really doesn’t tell you anything. So I finally went ahead and retitled and relaunched it last summer, to what it is now – the Dream Doctor Mysteries.
So there you have it – all the fun and excitement of coming up with a suitable book title!
Dream
Student
The
Dream Doctor Mysteries Prequel
by
J.J. DiBenedetto
Genre:
Paranormal Mystery
Sara Barnes has her life totally under control. All she has to worry about is college exams, Christmas shopping, applying to medical school--and what to do about the cute freshman who has a crush on her. And everything is going according to plan, until the night she starts dreaming other people's dreams.
It's
bad enough that every night is a theater of her friends' and
classmates' secret fantasies. Worse yet are the other dreams, the
dark ones featuring a strange, terrifying man committing unspeakable
crimes.
As
the nightmares increase, Sara's life becomes a blur of waking and
sleeping, of terror and urgency. Because if she was given this
dream-sharing gift for a reason, it must be to stop the killer madman
she's come to know all too well. But how can she stop him when she's
just a student, and they're only dreams?
Dream
Student is
the thrilling prequel to the Dream Doctor Mysteries.
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Dream
Doctor
The
Dream Doctor Mysteries Book 1
Between adjusting to life as a newlywed and trying to survive the first month of medical school, Sara Alderson has a lot on her plate. She definitely doesn’t need to start visiting other people’s dreams again. Unfortunately for her, it’s happening anyway.
Every
night, she sees a different person and a different dream. But every
dreamer has one thing in common: they all hate Dr. Morris, the least
popular professor in the medical school, and they’re all dreaming
about seeing him – or making him – dead.
Once
again, Sara finds herself in the role of unwilling witness to a
murder before it happens. But this time, there are too many suspects
to count, and it doesn’t help matters that she hates Dr. Morris
every bit as much as any of his would-be murderers do.
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Dream
Child
The
Dream Doctor Mysteries Book 2
Dr. Sara Alderson can deal with eighty-hour workweeks as a resident at Children’s Hospital. Dealing with crises in the Emergency Room or the OR is second nature to her. But now she faces a challenge that all of her training and experience hasn’t prepared her for: Lizzie, her four-year-old daughter, has inherited her ability to see other people’s dreams.
After
Lizzie befriends a young boy on a trip to Washington, DC, and then
wakes up in a panic that night because of a “bad funny dream,”
Sara knows exactly what it means: her daughter is visiting the boy’s
dreams. Complicating matters is the fact that the boy’s father is a
Congressman, and he’s dreaming about a “scary man in a big black
car” threatening his Daddy.
Unraveling
a case of political corruption and blackmail would be hard enough for
Sara under the best of circumstances. But when she has to view
everything through the eyes of a toddler, it may be an impossible
task.
Dream
Family
The
Dream Doctor Mysteries Book 3
Dr. Sara Alderson didn’t think she had a problem in the world, when she walked into the office for her first day as a partner in her own medical practice. And then the police showed up and arrested her for a crime she couldn’t possibly have committed. Twenty four hours later, after a horrifying day and night in jail, Sara comes home a different – and completely broken – woman.
Clearing
her name is her first challenge, but that’s nothing compared to the
task of rebuilding her shattered psyche. And the only way she can do
that is with the help of the supernatural dreams, the same dreams
that have nearly cost Sara her sanity – and almost got her killed –
in the past.
Waking
Dream
The
Dream Doctor Mysteries Book 4
After nearly a decade of visiting other people’s dreams, Sara Alderson thought she had made peace with her supernatural gift. Until one night, while watching her husband dream, she saw someone else watching him, too: a mysterious woman in a red dress.
The
woman in red keeps appearing in the dreams of Sara’s husband and
his co-workers. Sara doesn’t know if this mystery woman is trying
to steal her husband, drive him mad or something even worse. All she
does know is that now she has something she never imagined: a
nemesis. And the only thing more dangerous than a nemesis who shares
her ability to step into other people’s dreams, is one who knows
far more about that ability and how to control it than Sara does.
Dream
Reunion
The
Dream Doctor Mysteries Book 5
Dr. Sara Alderson is heading back to college for her ten-year class reunion. Her husband and two of her children are coming with her – and so are her supernatural dreams.
One
of her old classmates is becoming more frantic with every passing
night. Sara can’t see his face, but she can see everything else in
his dreams, and he’s coming closer and closer to committing a
desperate act to try and save his business. Sara’s the only one who
can save him, and his family – if she can figure out who he is and
what he’s planning in time.
Dream
Home
The
Dream Doctor Mysteries Book 6
Dr. Sara Alderson thought she was securing her and her family’s future when she moved them to a small town in New York and took a job as Chief of Pediatrics at the local hospital. Unfortunately, things aren’t going quite according to plan. For one thing, she has enemies at work who resent her from the moment she sets foot in the hospital.
For
another, she’s visiting the dreams of an old man who’s seeing
nightly visions of a storm that will wipe out the entire town. He’s
convinced that the visions are true – and as winter closes in, Sara
is starting to think he might be right.
Dream
Vacation
The
Dream Doctor Mysteries Book 7
Thanks to her unique ability to step into other people's dreams, Dr. Sara Alderson has solved murders, unraveled conspiracies and saved lives. But when a crisis hits close to home, even her supernatural gift might not be enough to avert disaster.
On
a family vacation to Paris, Sara's fifteen-year-old daughter Grace
disappears without a trace. The only way to find her is through
Sara's dreams. But her gift has taken an unwanted vacation, and
without it, Sara has no idea how to rescue Grace. In a foreign city,
with no clues, and her dreaming talent failing her for the first
time, Sara must figure out another way to find Grace before it's too
late.
Fever
Dream
The
Dream Doctor Mysteries Book 8
Dr.
Sara Alderson isn’t used to her patients dying for no reason. When
a young boy succumbs to a mysterious illness that defies all her
efforts to treat it, she refuses to accept defeat.
After
two months of questions, Sara has attracted the attention of powerful
people who don’t want their secrets uncovered, and will go to any
lengths to make sure they stay hidden.
Now,
time is running out for Sara to unravel the mystery before anyone
else falls victim to the illness. And before her career, her family
and her freedom are taken from her by enemies she doesn’t even know
she has.
Dream
Wedding
The
Dream Doctor Mysteries Book 9
It ought to be a joyful time for Dr. Sara Alderson. Her daughter, Lizzie, is about to graduate college, and marry her longtime boyfriend. But the family’s happiness is shattered when a drunk driver seriously injures her teenage son in a hit-and-run accident.
Now,
instead of planning her daughter’s wedding, Sara must fight to save
her son’s life. And when she discovers who the drunk driver was –
someone she thought was a colleague and a friend – she has to fight
her desire for revenge. Because Sara knows she has the power to visit
the driver’s dreams, and in those dreams, she holds the power of
life and death.
Dream
Fragments:
Stories
From the Dream Doctor Mysteries
The novels don’t tell the whole story!
Readers
of the Dream Doctor Mysteries know that Sara and her family have a
very busy life outside the pages of the ten Dream Doctor Mysteries,
and here’s your chance to peek into it.
Twelve
stories are included in this collection, and you’ll discover what
happened on Sara’s final Spring Break of college; Lizzie’s first
day of school; Betty and Howard’s first trip out of the country;
and much more!
J.J. DiBenedetto is author of the Dream Series and the Jane Barnaby Adventures and lives in Arlington, Virginia with the love of his life and a white cat who rules the roost.
His
passions are photography, travel, the opera, the New York Giants, and
of course writing.
Mr.
DiBenedetto is devoted to writing books with a sense of mysticism to
entertain and perhaps invite his readers to suspend belief in a way
they might never have.
Since
he was very young , he has always been intrigued with the
supernatural and things that can't be explained rationally.
By
always asking way too many questions, it piqued his interest to the
point of setting his writing off and running when he grew up! All the
curiosity building up all those years were finally getting put into
words to captivate readers. And it hasn't ended. His main goal is to
share all the stories he has inside, putting pen to paper. And that's
how the Dream Series was born.
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I like the cover
ReplyDeleteI think all the covers look sweet & romantic.
ReplyDeleteThank you! They were done by Emma Michaels. She’s really good!
ReplyDeleteBest of luck with the books and book tour! I included the tour in the Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 edition of The BookTube Your Shelf Daily Reader: https://paper.li/Readeropolis/1517059010#/
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