The Initiate

"I am the first Observer" is the opening post to this new blog. I'm trying to create an idea that we are all observers in our own time and space. We may not record everything we see, formally to a notebook or to the internet, but we are responsible to see what is going around us. I wanted to convey this idea on a young adult series because it is the young who have the most power to change the future. And it is our responsibility to tell them that.

I remember watching old movie clips where young men stood in long lines to sign up for entrance into the great war, WW1. The general feeling was that they were going out to change the world. I try to place myself into the minds of those young men as they stood in lines discussing happy thoughts about a different future they would happily contribute to, unaware of the terribleness of war.

Joan Darcy & The 27th Observer is about a similar upheaval in history except that Joan is the unknown catalyst and the events were set in motion hundreds of years in the past. I crafted the manuscript to reflect the coming change as an allegory to human change that I believe is not to far ahead in our future.

I am the first Observer

Welcome to Joan Darcy and the 27th Observer Blog. this is my very post. Who am I you may ask? I am the author of the Joan Darcy series, Patrick Meservier. On this post I will try to give inside information about upcoming selling events, background information on characters, and tidbits about the next book being written.

The image to the left is the cover art to the first book currently out in the e-book world.

The Passage of time is marked by the living memory of those witnesses who made history. Woe is thee who sought to suppress the most important memories of all time….

This is how the first book opens. It is a self quote for the story. And it's the most important, for it intimates that Joan Darcy is older that any person should be and her memories hold the clue to humanities future. Something in our past has been set in motion and will culminate in our extinction if Joan could only remember why her memories keep getting wiped clean every two years.


I am open to all kinks of comments. I want this to be an open forum on the aspects of the story for those willing to offer them.