Just read this on Amazon Reviews. Wow. Thank you, Oran!

A book for children AND adults!
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2025

We just received our copy the other day and I was so excited to finally read it. It is indeed a children’s book, but I think I enjoyed it (and needed it) just as much! A beautifully illustrated and well written story of just how powerful words can be. What a much needed reminder in the world today when it seems like words are not heard. Say it!

I am stunned and beyond grateful to have the brilliant Word Artist Scott Hastie, Poet London, review Manifest Destiny!

A Highly Visual, Engaging and Fast-Paced Novel

”Vividly, elegantly and intelligently put together, ‘Manifest Destiny’ is a highly visual, engaging and fast-paced novel. At times a tough read, this is a fearlessly written, highly imaginative narrative which takes you on a challenging journey that looks to provide you with a futuristic glimpse of all that is both pernicious and yet again redemptive at the core of the human experience. It was perhaps serendipity that the very night before I settled down to read this gloriously ambitious work, I was up late into the night watching the director’s cut of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece ‘Apocalypse Now.’ So all I have left to say is: ‘Waken up Hollywood!’ And do a deal for this creative property fast…What both Rebecca O’Donnell and Sabatino Stefanile have so boldly and bravely summoned up between them here in the form of ‘Manifest Destiny’ is no less than the ‘Heart of Darkness’ for the 21st Century.”

Scott Hastie, Writer & Poet London

I am thrilled to find out Hurt Magic is appearing in libraries! Thank you, All who’ve worked so hard to get this very important book out there for kids who’ve been bullied or abused. I wrote something that would have comforted me as a child, and illustrated it with the bright colors and funny art that captivated me back then. Still love them!

I’ve started working on the second Charlie book in the trilogy about his experiences in the Pacific in World War ll. The first was Bougainville, this second is Guam, and the third will be Iwo Jima. I am grateful beyond measure to his brother and sister Marines of the Third Marine Division group I belong to, who set this dumb civilian straight about so many things I was unsure of. I’ll soon be badgering and begging them for info and insight as I dive into the abject horror of Guam as my beloved stepdad Charlie remembered it. Over a decade of interviewing him (I only saw him once a year each summer), endless research and the gracious courage of this great man in trusting me enough to share his story, has led to the creation of these books.

My mom had some amazing abilities.

#psychic #jfkassassination #prophesy #motorcycledeath #medium

I’m going to start blogging again. Until then, here’s some of my old stuff from when I first wrote my memoir Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict.
http://freak-rebeccaodonnell.blogspot.com/2011/09/twist-cone-legs.html

I loved working in that lovely little shop. Crazy and wonderful things happened there all the time.

This was a blast to write! Tino (Sabatino Stefanile) did a mountain of research for me to sift through and all of it was fascinating. #AI #sexworker #apocalypse #sciencefiction