About the Author
Echoes of Austin
Garrick Blake is a certified paranormal cynic, the kind of invaluable person to go on a ghost-hunting adventure when everyone else is eager to believe. This ‘cynic’ convinced me in the first few chapters that the paranormal is real, and I may stay away from room 318 in the Fountain House Hotel, and Texas, for that matter, for fear of the encounters he experienced and chronicled so beautifully. The book is a compelling read, with an energy all its own, that propels the reader forward, almost effortlessly, waiting to reach the conclusion.
Blake is also a master storyteller, who has lectured at the college level, has taken his skill in a whole new direction, and I am thrilled.
I hurt when he got hit in the forehead with a glass ashtray. I felt the chill in the room, and the frost on the door handle when he went back to Room 318.
And the humanity and sensitivity of the author, who never loses sight of the fact that these ‘beings’ did not choose their tragic fate. In one line, he mourns for all the children who died in the savage past.
He also has such concern and compassion for the people he meets along the way. One of them is Meghan, a “psychic”, though I think Lawrence has far more psychic ability than he knows, and intently explores the emotional levels of human and “spirit” alike.