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Trana Mae Simmons sold her first book two years from the time she started writing. After a decade and a dozen books in the romance genre, she now writes paranormal mysteries. The first book in her DEAD MAN series, DEAD MAN TALKING, is a December 2004 release from Five Star Mystery, where she writes as T. M. Simmons. In addition to her writing, she enjoys developing her strengthening psychic powers. This has led her along the path of avid ghosthunting. Simmons delights in scaring herself silly at times during other-worldly encounters and has been known to visit graveyards in both the dark and full of the moon. She usually takes along her husband of 30+ years, Barney, to protect her from the bumps in the night, although he's been known to spy a ghost or two and retreat rather than confront. She's extremely willing to discuss her experiences with anyone she can corner.
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Her favorite ghosthunting
companion is her aunt, Belle Brown
who started her down the paranormal path looking for ghosts years ago.
Strange things happen when
Simmons and
Brown go hunting together: they see ghosts, they talk to ghosts, and
every once in a while, ghosts pop into the pictures they snap. Their
experiences include seeing whirlwinds of light, ghosts crawling in bed with
them and scaring them silly…well, sillier, ghosts deciding to hitch a ride
home with them, ghosts putting on a goodbye show, and many others. They've
hunted in New Mexico; the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas; The
Myrtles in St. Francisville, as well as Natchitoches and New Orleans,
Louisiana; Jefferson, and other Texas towns; Ohio; Wisconsin; and numerous
graveyards and haunted buildings all over the place. Their favorite trip (so
far) was to Cimarron, New Mexico, where they spent two days and nights all
alone in the historical and haunted St. James Hotel.
Simmons also hunts with a variety of folks, including friends from the North Texas Paranormal Research Society as well as Mike Martinez , Katrina Wallace and Lynn Metcalf. A very important teacher in her psychic life has been Santiago, a Native American spiritualist. Simmons lives in a haunted house in East Texas, which she shares with a variety of paranormal residents, a menagerie of pets, her husband and son. She believes in disciplining her ghosts, but visitors are forewarned to beware. Some overnight guests have left in the middle of the night; even some relatives refuse to accept her offer of a bed. But her ghosts don't only appear at night. Teddy, especially, loves to make himself known in the guest bathroom at all hours, especially to the male guests, and other paranormal boarders appear at opportune—and inopportune—times. She hopes you enjoy her web site and the pictures and stories.
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