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Peggy Payne

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in Wilmington, NC, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Spirituality

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I’m a writer who dodged being a minister; I saw that my dharma, my calling, was instead to write novels about the biggest mysteries: life after death, life before death, The Other Side. I explore in fiction my metaphysical questions, with the certainty anything is possible.

I’ve spent the past 50+ years as a freelancer, with 4 novels, 2 nonfiction books, magazine and newspaper articles from 25+ countries, a few seasons as a TV reporter, copy for ad agencies, a winter in India, and my manuscript and career consulting services for writers.

Married to a now-retired psychologist (Bob Dick www.drbobdick.com), I live in a log house in deep woods in rural Chatham County, North Carolina.Plan B life in NYC. Interested in the psychic and supernatural. ...more

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Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)

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Brent Bill's "stories from the heartland" are old-fashioned tales of small town life in the twentieth century, warm and good-hearted and sometimes LOL funny. A good choice for fans of Jan Karon's Mitford novels. ...more
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“God is as real as a station wagon.”
― Peggy Payne

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“Exercise and good nutrition, for all their power to keep us healthy, are not enough. The next revolution in health care must be to bring to our awareness the health potential of helping others. The present headlined health revolution will not be completed until people realize that no matter how much they concentrate on themselves, they cannot achieve optimal health. They have to relate to others. This new information is something that all of us, at least at the back of our minds, already somehow know; that doing good feels good. But with the rising levels of crime and fear in our communities, and the increasing busyness of our lives, it is easy to forget, to believe mistakenly that we are protecting ourselves by avoiding others. In fact, the opposite is true.”
― Peggy Payne, The Healing Power of Doing Good

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“God is as real as a station wagon.”
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