LIANNE DOWNEY writes both fiction and nonfiction books that reflect her interest in the interdimensional aspects of life on Earth. Her first novel, Cosmic Dancer, is a National Indie Excellence Award Finalist in the Visionary Fiction category. Her nonfiction includes The Liberator: A Psychic Spiritual History of the Orion Empire and Speed Your Evolution. She began her career as an arts journalist for The Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune and holds a degree in Mass Communication (Theater/Film/Journalism) from U.C. Davis. As a lifelong student of past life awareness, she has served as a teacher of the science of reincarnation through her writing and classes. She loves ballroom dancing with her husband Joseph and living in the San Diego foothills with their fruit trees and wild rabbit pets (and gophers and snails and monarchs).