"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.
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