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    The Conduit
    The Conduit
    The Conduit
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    The Conduit

    By Jill Murphy Long

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    Since Tess’ restless dreams have made it impossible to sleep or study, she has returned to Colorado for treatment by best diagnostic hospital in the nation.

    For months, Tess has experienced vivid dreams that have taken her to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, the parades and parties of Carnival, and to the statue of Cristo Redentor perched on the city’s mountaintop. Her nighttime travels have also brought home souvenirs like sand in her bed and purple, fingerprint bruises circling her wrists like bracelets.

    Now, living under a haze due to the pharmaceuticals prescribed for her insomnia and anxiety, Tess believes the combined dosages might be responsible for her increased mental aptitudes—like her ability to speak fluent Portuguese without any lessons and speed read books by touching their spines. Her new psychoanalyst assigned to the case focuses on Tess’ childhood diaries and finds insight into her troubled patient’s mind and past, but not before Tess falls deeper into this other world.
    What Tess can’t figure out is why she continues to follow the unnamed little girl that she keeps encountering in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
    The Conduit questions the possibilities of other realities and explores the powerful bond between mothers and daughters—despite the separation of time and space.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJill Murphy Long
    Release dateMar 18, 2014
    ISBN9781310573620
    The Conduit
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    Jill Murphy Long

    Jill Murphy Long is the author of novels and a non-fiction book series. She also writes screenplays and teaches creative writing. Since 2005, she has been a book editor and advocate for dozens of other writers to publish their books. Prior to writing books, she worked in advertising as a creative director and copywriter for several LA agencies before opening her own: The Ad Group and Murphy & Watt Advertising. Her first best-selling book, Permission to Nap, Taking Time to Restore Your Spirit received the Excellence Award, a distinguished recognition presented by the Chicago Book Clinic and the 2003 Benjamin Franklin Award by the Publishers Marketing Association. The author has appeared on CBS and Fox television stations and has been a guest on other stations throughout North America. Interviewed by NPR and other major metro radio stations, she has also been hired as a keynote speaker at symposiums, conferences, universities, libraries, and spa resorts including The Golden Door, Canyon Ranch, and Red Mountain Adventure Spa & Resort. Her other titles, Permission to Play and Permission to Party, received press coverage in: USA Today, Better Homes & Gardens, Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, American West In-flight Magazine, Chicago Sun Times, EPregnancy, and the international spa magazine, Pulse, to name a few. Her books have been sold in gift catalogs and at their websites such as: Isabella, Femail Creations, Paragon, Victorian Trading Company, and Jessica’s Biscuits. Jill has e-published Skiing With God, which will soon be released as an audio book. The Conduit will also be available as an audio book in the summer 2014. When she is not writing, she’s making a movie, skiing, or cycling. To book this author for your next creative engagement, please email: jillmurphylong@gmail.com

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