About Me
Dr. Susan Linville received a PhD in biology from the University of Dayton and lectured several years as adjunct faculty. She has administrative experience as an assistant editor for a science journal, university outreach coordinator and museum assistant administrator. As a freelance writer, she has published short fiction, newspaper and magazine articles, non-fiction books, poetry, science podcast scripts, and blogs. She is a graduate of the Climate Reality Project, Pittsburgh 2017. She was also owner of the Pokeberry Exchange in New Castle, PA until 2021 which included the Pokeberry Press which helped new writers publish.
FROM OZARK MOUNTAIN PUBLISHING & BIG SANDY PRESS
In 1956, when she was only four years old, Karen Heasley died on the operating table while having her tonsils removed. While she was dead, she traveled through a dark tunnel and felt a peace she hasn’t felt since. It would be 20 years until she discovered the work of Raymond Moody and understood she had had a Near Death Experience. It also explained why she was sensitive to the spirits around her. Fifty years before Karen’s birth, in 1907, Lydia Marquette was the first medium to stand up for her rights to practice Spiritualism in New Castle, Pennsylvania. After suffering through a fortunetelling trial, she went on to help found a new religion in the flourishing steel town. She joined with the Johns family and Agnes Guthrie to become leaders who changed the culture of the city. Blessing From Agnes is based on true events. It interweaves the struggles of the early Spiritualists and Karen’s efforts to remain “normal” in an old western Pennsylvania steel town. It follows her as she discovers her true calling and rids herself of the expectations of her community, church, and family, to become a Spiritualist medium. The fight is not always easy, but like the Spiritualists who lived in New Castle 100 years before, she is determined to succeed. |
This book illustrates that Karen is a compassionate minister of love and healing. Her mission is guided
and supported by angels and those of love in the world of Spirit. – Rev. Barbara A. Sanson, Lily Dale
spiritual healer, medium and lecturer
Blessing from Agnes is an inspiring story of women trying to find their own spiritual path when the odds
seem stacked against them. Told as parallel narratives from different time periods, the novel traces the
evolution of Rev. Karen Heasley from a childhood near-death experience to realizing her calling as a
spiritualist minister. This carefully researched book also highlights the struggles of early spiritualist
women as they fight to escape persecution and establish their right to freedom of religion. The women’s
stories intertwine with the grit and grime of the old steel town of New Castle, Pennsylvania, creating a
transcendent vision of the continued life. Generations of truth seekers pass through the town, luminous
as the spectral birds that whiz through Rev. Heasley’s sanctuary. --Sharon Hatfield, author of Enchanted
Ground: The Spirit Room of Jonathan Koons
This book demonstrates that Rev. Karen’s path with Spirit and Spiritualism has been a life-long journey.
Unlike many people, she has followed that path without ego, without the spotlight, and without
personal gain. She has followed this path by trust, dedication, truth, and the absolute knowledge that
she was led to people, places, and understanding through her relationship with the Spirit World. –Rev.
Sharon Siubus, Spiritualist minister, medium and healer at the Inner Spiritual Center
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