Book 2: The Qaraq and the Maya Factor
The qaraq loses its powers!
“In this volume, the characters have lived in many forms, including a lovesick merman, a drifting seed, frolicking dogs and, among other things, a horny glacier.”
Robin Gregory, author, The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman
Book 2 launched 10/01/25!
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After the events of The Qaraq, Sahara Fleming has accepted that she can recall past lives, along with her qaraq, a group of intertwined souls who have shared relationships lifetime after lifetime.
Now the distressing Maya Factor splinters their community. Stemming from the Hindu “Maya,” the worldly illusion that shields us from visionary awareness, the disorder blocks the qaraq from recalling reincarnation stories.
In fleeting, baffling images, the qaraq discovers shocking links between ancient tombs, the sinister Red Isle, and a 17th Century coven. Is there a grand vision to their lives? Or is it another layer of Maya that confounds and fractures the group?
The Qaraq and the Maya Factor is Book Two of an 11-book homage to The Thousand and One Nights. The vividly imaginative 1001 series conjures up magical, dark, humorous, and visionary reincarnation stories. Check out future Upcoming Books.
Original cover for Book 2.
Each book of the 1001 series has its own theme, like Book One’s examination of Faith in past life beliefs. I had conceived themes for all the eleven books except this book, The Qaraq and the Maya Factor. As I outlined the plot, the theme revealed itself to me, and it didn’t use the fancy Sanskrit word, Maya, meaning the illusion of everyday life that we think is reality, but masks the true higher reality of enlightened consciousness.
No, ma’am, my original title used the phrase the Bullshit Factor, because my daily life was full of it, compulsive kitchen cleaning, making lists and then re-organizing the lists to make a new list, and commuting to work (with half-hour of writing on the train), making music for dancers at The Fame School (with half-hour of writing in a free period if I’m lucky) while choking on the BS of public school bureaucracy (maybe a half-hour writing to escape it), and commuting home (a final half-hour before crashing).
I was aware of the BS holding us back from our dreams and poured it into my characters. At some point, Maya was a nicer way to go than BS, and more appropriate for a series about enlightenment.
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Chapter One of The Qaraq and the Maya Factor
Each book in the 1001 series focuses on one of the ten qaraqis. In the opening of Book Two, we get into Cachay Goodkin’s head as she time travels back to her incarnation as a pyramid tomb salesman in Egypt. While getting her nails done.
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