SHOULD I SEND ROYALTIES TO A GHOST?

Elisa Medhus, M.D. and I started communicating via email in late November 2010 after I found her blog about her son, Erik.

We started writing Same Moon, Same Sky on January 8, 2011. Then we decided to do a sequel, but instead that became PART TWO .This decision to write a PART TWO created all sorts of TIME problems which we had to go back and fix in PART ONE to make them consistent with PART TWO.

Writing a novel with someone I'd never met and putting her deceased son, Erik, (whom I'd never met) as the main (fictional) character was pretty strange. I got up every morning at 4 A.M. and sat in front of my computer without a clue what that chapter would be about. Then suddenly I'd start writing. I'd email that chapter to Elisa and she would comment and edit as necessary. The parts she wrote flowed seamlessly into my writing.

SAME MOON, SAME SKY is for sale at AMAZON KINDLE and BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK as a downloadable eBook. Elisa has added a thumbnail of the cover on her blog. The novel takes place in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The cover is a photo I took of the Colorado sky.

YESTERDAY, as I was reading Elisa's May 12, 2011 blog, ( click on the highlighted 'this' to get to channelingerik.com) this I read this comment from ERIK.

Elisa transcribed it from a channeling session she had on February 8, 2011...when we were ripping along with Part One. The "me" in the transcript is Elisa. The "Betty" is Erik's reference to me since he doesn't know I write as E.J. Daniel. (He hasn't been paying attention!) Now I can blame my typos on Erik. But honestly, I'm a lousy two finger typist...which is a good thing because I compose as I type and that allows my brain to keep up with my typing.

TRANSCRIPT FROM FEBRUARY 8, 2011:

Me: So, Erik, you’ve really been channeling tons of information to Betty for the book (Same Moon, Same Sky). She’s been cranking it out like a machine! She sent me some bound copies, and I want to help her out, so how do you think I can best do that. The novel is awesome. Very funny, lots of bad words, just as you’d expect—

Erik: It’s so easy to download information to Betty. We have to wait until we’re a little closer to 2012 before it really takes off, because then, people are gonna want to take comfort and find humor in spirituality. There’s so much fear based on death and the idea of the world ending, disasters and stuff like that.
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SO THAT'S WHERE ALL 'MY' IDEAS WERE COMING FROM. WELL, NOT ALL. YOU THINK I SHOULD SEND ERIK ROYALTIES? WHAT IS HIS ZIP CODE "OVER THERE"? I HOPE HE CONTINUES TO HELP ME WITH THE SEQUEL WE'RE WRITING. IT'S TENTATIVELY CALLED "T".