Tir na Nog Serves as Archetype for the Writing of Secrets of the Rainbow Bridge

Douglas and Olivia Rosestone have worked together for the past twenty years as “life coaches for couples by a couple” and together with their son, screenwriter  Jonah Rosestone, are drawing upon their personal influences and inspirations for writing a fantasy book series, Secrets of the Rainbow Bridge. The Rosestone’s work as life coaches, along with lessons-learned as students of archetypal psychology, and their family’s shared beliefs that fantasy is a vehicle for adults, as Tolkien says, “to suspend apprehensions and feel deep joy” have served as guideposts along the way. The Rosestone’s are using the major archetype of elven and faery “Other-world” Tir na Nog, in the series.  Douglas explains, “The Sidhe races of the Otherworld are of various kinds, which …

Debbie HemleyTir na Nog Serves as Archetype for the Writing of Secrets of the Rainbow Bridge

Influences for Writing Secrets of the Rainbow Bridge

Knowing the point in which you have been influenced by a person, book, or place and how it goes on to shape your life may be one of the greatest gifts any of us could hope for. In this post, Secrets of the Rainbow Bridge (SOTRB) co-authors and family-as-fantasy-writers discuss what has been influential to them. Douglas Rosestone: When fantasy crosses over into mythology, it truly becomes interesting to me. When fantasy is not only for entertainment, but also contains instruction for what Joseph Campbell called “the capacity to live a human lifetime under any circumstance, fantasy then becomes Mythology. I hope that SOTRB becomes a classic beloved by great numbers of people. I think its scope is grand, the characters …

Debbie HemleyInfluences for Writing Secrets of the Rainbow Bridge