After facing many challenges with foreign and local publishers, 74-year-old Tyler Mahadeo became a published author in 2019 when a complete stranger walked her through the process. Her book, When the Fog Lifts, was written in 1994 and inspired by a recurring dream that she had in the early 1990s.
Mahadeo, of Sangre Grande, said when many of the foreign publishers told her they weren’t willing to take that risk, "I was forced to put away my manuscript and I decided that that was the first and last book I would write. Then came a complete stranger who had recently published a book. Reia Ali literally took me by the hand and walked the extra mile with me to get my book publishing. She also encouraged me to write the second book and has played a pivotal role in helping with the marketing of them.”
[caption id="attachment_1013648" align="alignnone" width="682"] Tyler Mahadeo says Writing has been her pastime since she was a teacher Guaico Government Primary School, but she used many opportunities at the school to nurture it into something more. - AYANNA KINSALE[/caption]
She told WMN Ali was helped by author Roger Ali-Bocus who transformed the manuscript into a book and designed the cover. Mahadeo believes these people entered her life on account of her strong belief in the Law of Attraction.
In the dream that inspired When the Fog Lifts, "I was a male person, addressing large crowds of people in the open air. My speeches were motivational, fluent and articulate and I expressed myself clearly and effectively. In real life, I have a problem ad-libbing. One morning, with the dream still fresh in my mind, I felt a compulsion to prove to myself whether the skill I displayed in my dream also existed in real life. The dream had sown a seed and When the Fog Lifts took birth.”
Mahadeo said the book revolves around a simple misunderstanding that is compounded by several others which cause problems for the main characters. The main male character becomes blind, not because of the severe beating he has endured at the hands of his abductors, but because of the mental and emotional torment he suffers because of the betrayal he mistakenly feels.
[caption id="attachment_1013646" align="alignnone" width="1024"] When the Fog Lifts. - AYANNA KINSALE[/caption]
"The main female character is also deeply affected by these misunderstandings. She is wasting away and has become thin and frail. She exists as a zombie because she too feels she has been betrayed. They are both caught up in a mental and emotional fog which affects them physically as well. And then there's the actual fog brought about by weather conditions, in which she finds herself experiencing a complexity of emotions that are just as bewildering as the fog or even more so.”
Mahadeo told WMN her writing process does not follow a "normal" pattern, as she just thinks about the topic and the ideas just flow on their own.
"I firmly believe that my ideas flow from the collective consciousness to which we all have access, if we do desire. Writing, for me, is actuall
