S.A. Reinhart Interview Published on: 26, Apr 2024

Growing up in the mountains allowed me to have a lot of reflective time. There was no internet and our form of entertainment was hiking, watching movies and reading. Sometimes we didn’t have power and it was too cold to go hiking, so reading was one of the ways I got to spark my imagination.

Reading a lot of Stephen King books, I thought to myself, “I would love to write stories like this.” So, I picked up a notepad and a pencil and started writing. I’ve always had an active imagination of my own, but some of the things I wrote about were considered inappropriate for a young lady to write about, so I burned my manuscripts and didn’t write again until recently.

The type of stories I write are true in a paranormal sense and slightly descriptive on the spicy side. Had I not been experimental in my adult years, I wouldn’t have had the details needed to write the things I write about.

The spiritual teachers in my stories are based on elements of real people I have met to help me on my own healing journey and what I have taught others as a spiritual teacher. The main female character in the series, Sabrina, has to shift her mindset to accept her gifts, just as I did to become a writer.

That part is easy. It’s balancing my day job and family life with my spiritual teachings and writing that’s the juggle. LOL! In all seriousness, though, I believe we all create time for things that are important to us. Most people watch ample amounts of television or spend time doing things that drain their energy. For me, it’s more about energy management than time management.

My husband is my favorite person in the world. He is supportive in everything I do, even when others think I can’t do it. His support and love inspired the character, Richard. Also, it took me thirty-two years to catch the storytelling bug again because of limiting beliefs. I want to be an example for my kids that they can do whatever they want as long as they take action on their dreams.

My creative process is very similar to how mediums channel messages. I dream of my characters and different scenes. When I sit down to write about them, I can see the scenes like I’m watching a movie. The paranormal part is easy because as a spiritual teacher, I have experience with paranormal reality. The romance part was born out of a need to see an equality in the male and female character. I was getting tired of the alpha male and head-over-heels female characters (or vice versa), so I made up my own empowered, yet flawed, people.

Love, magic, forgiveness, acceptance and equality. I want people to know what the healed masculine and healed feminine look like. I also wanted to be inclusive, so my supporting characters are from different countries, cultures, and part of the LGTBQ+ community.

It’s very natural for me to blend spiritual concepts and tools with paranormal romance. There are no monsters in my stories. My goal is to help the spiritually curious people want to learn more about spirituality and psychic gifts. Everyone has them, but it’s fear that holds a lot of people back. That is one of the reason intuition and psychic development is one of my favorite things to teach people.

Creativity is intimately tied to having fun. Have you ever tried to force yourself to draw, paint, or write? It’s nearly impossible. Again, we go back to creating time for things that are important to us. It is important to have fun and connect for our relationships to flourish. This includes time by ourselves to figure out what we like so we can effectively communicate that with others.

I’ve always been a huge fan of Stephen King. He has a lot of paranormal elements that I love in quite a few of his novels. I’m also a fan of how Dan Brown has true elements throughout his novels. I use elements like that in my novels, and the places in the Mystical Love series are all places you can visit in real life.

Humans learn best through stories. It’s how we’ve been wired since before the discovery of electricity. If someone can see themself as one of the characters in the book, they can learn as the character learns. This way, their retention rate is better, as if it is a memory. If they become inspired by what they are reading, they can reach out and experience their own form of healing and ask me questions.

Each character has aspects of my personality. Some people have asked me if Sabrina is me and Richard is my husband, but I can’t say that is true. Although, when they go hiking in Utah together, it is very reminiscent of how we used to go hiking all the time when we were younger.

I have too much to say about that, but I’ll try to keep it brief. I left a lot of unfinished business open in Mystical Love. Readers can look forward to past lives, a tragic accident, a possible love triangle, and the physical aspects get spicer.

AllAuthor was recommended to me by my mentor, so I signed up when I published in August 2023. I like having a new mockup in my inbox and meeting other authors. I’m probably not using it to the best of my advantage, yet.