Rachel Jackson Review – “Mirror Mirror”

"Halloween, a season woven with threads of the supernatural and mystical, finds its narrative embodiment in Gary Wise's tale. With adept finesse, Wise melds elements of fantasy and mystery—two genres that personally resonate—into a captivating narrative, offering an intriguing premise that encompasses crime, time travel, and interdimensional entities. The story serves as a comprehensive entertainment package, inviting readers to embark on an engaging journey. The narrative commences by acquainting us with the central figure, Sandy Tillman, whose life is shadowed by the horrors of an abusive past. (more…)

Library Vault — “Fear the Jump”

Fear the Jump The School of Psychology at Central State University in Carteret County, North Carolina, is a hotbed of research focused on innovative dream therapy. Dr. Cara Williams is the lead Clinical Psychologist funded to build a team to test the viability of manipulating dreams to positively impact mental health challenges like PTSD, Depression, Bi-Polar, and other issues many face. As the small research team adds more expertise and new technology, they must dodge outside interference from Big Pharma in books one and two because dream therapy could easily…

Library Vault — “Mirror Mirror: Halloween Party of the Century”

  Mirror Mirror  Mirror started as a short story until the Muse snatched me out of neutral and whispered into my ear, “Finish this one, honey!” So we did, and I have added another addiction to my list – writing thrillers. It’s an addiction now because I cannot refuse when my Muse hurls me into another adventure, and likely into several heads and a couple of hearts. I write with many narrative dialogs and love the freedom of the third-person point of view. I write so that the story is…

Library Vault — “Dreamscape Conspiracy” where it starts…

Dreamscape Conspiracy Author and Story Setting: This story began as a short story and blossomed along with my Muse’s demands to return to work. Once again, this story came from a short story called Dreamweaver. Dreamscape as a project name and, ultimately, as a fictitious technology emerges from an obscure sleep study and dream research effort. Obscurity was obliterated by a research accident that came into the story with incredible potential. That potential had to remain limited knowledge, or unlimited chaos would take over. And it did. It became real…

Library Vault — “Beyond Dreamscape Conspiracy” … well beyond

This is the second book that follows Dreamscape Conspiracy, where an accidental discovery in a dream capture research project transmits one person’s dreams into another. As exciting as that discovery was, it led to attempted suicide. Despite that initial negative outcome, closer examination revealed the significant positive potential to control the transmitted dream segments for therapeutic applications. This refinement pointed to a potential breakthrough in treating mental health challenges like Bipolar, Anxiety Disorders, PTSD, and others. Elements of Big Pharma deemed the Dreamscape capability a threat to their revenue gravy…

Author Gary G. Wise – Library Vault

Thanks for stopping by! Some of you know me from work, others may not, so I am a recovering Performance Consultant of 30+ years avoiding retirement by redeploying my remaining trips around the sun writing fictional thrillers. I'm not making any money, but I have a wealth of Spirit and have enough of everything else, and writing is keeping me out of jail. I’m primarily unsupervised, of questionable discipline at times and susceptible to being sucked into a story by a relentless wench of a Muse who manages to remain…

Mirror Mirror — Author and Story Setting

I am a recovering Performance Consultant redeploying my remaining trips around the sun, writing fictional thrillers like my first novel on Amazon, Mirror Mirror - Halloween Party of the Century.  Retirement holds no appeal when I’m primarily unsupervised, of questionable discipline and susceptible to being sucked into a story by a relentless wench of a Muse who manages to remain just out of reach. Mirror started as a short story until the Muse snatched me out of neutral and whispered into my ear, “Finish this one, honey!” So we did,…

“Dead Thoughts” New eBook Released on Amazon 11/12/2023

Dead Thoughts - Released 11/12/2023 “Dead Thoughts,” the fourth and final book in the Dreamscape series, delves into how (or if) dream-capture technology can record brain activity during periods when an individual is comatose or in a shallow state of unconsciousness and unable to speak. They discovered by accident that they also captured thoughts during the brief time gap between life and death. What could be "scraped" off a dying mind in the 4-to-6 seconds without unoxygenated blood flowing? Logic says something is always left behind, and the CSU team…

FREE Point-of-Work Assessment Worksheets

POINT-OF-WORK ASSESSMENT (PWA) WORKSHEET  &  "Confessions of a Performance Ninja" I wrote this book shortly after I retired, or as I call it, Redeployed my life as a Writer of Things. Seems the Performance Consultant in me refused to die, so I'm offering the PWA Worksheets free of charge for anyone who would like to check them out. I feel it would be a waste for me to allow thousands of hours of consulting experiences over the last 35+ years and useful tools to turn to ash just because I…

“Dead Thoughts” – SNEAK PEEK – 1st Chapter

1 – In the Dark Most of the shellers had departed the ocean side of Portsmouth Island on the ferry to Ocracoke Island and then on to the mainland in Carteret County, North Carolina. Transportation to and from this popular barrier island is easy and fast if you have a boat and can spare 20 minutes. Ferry hopping, on the other hand, can take hours.  Howard “Hatch” Delaney had the rest of his life to spare and would not be jockeying with the tourists filling the ferry. Being a homeless…