J. M. Hurley

I was very young when I started on my own inner journey. As I trotted, stumbled and (often!) fell along my own little pathway, my question always was: 'How should this feel?'

I realized that the emotional connection, this emphasis on the feeling aspect of the journey, although the same for male and female alike, was a vital element for me and I just wasn't finding what I wanted in the books I came across. So Dance with Life came because I didn't have it when I needed it!

The journey for me has been (and still is) a very feeling one, almost poetic and beyond words at times. As the heart opens and begins to sing its song, the world changes utterly and becomes an interconnected bliss bubble of colour and feeling, rather than a philosophical theory or abstraction.

It is that change in perception that I wanted to express in Dance with Life. So as a result it is a poetic and lyrical book and it is written with a very feminine bias. Interestingly though, many man have come back to me and told me that they have really connected with it too which is really lovely to hear.

Angel Prayers and Messages came along quite by chance. My friend Rosie and I were chatting about Angels and we both commented that it was impossible to get a nice, simple Angle Prayerbook. We laughed and said we should write one and left it at that. The next day I happened to be talking with my agent and told him about our idea. He rang back the next day and said that a publisher he knew wanted to do the book, how soon could we have it? Without thinking I said within six weeks!! Well six weeks later Angel Prayers and Messages was being printed...

Right now I'm working on something completely different, a children's book series for 6-7 year olds. It's great fun to do and I don't know when it will hit the selves but I've no doubt that when the time is right it will all fall into place.

Website: www.justinahurley.com

Publisher www.katy-press.com