Photos of the book launch at Little Sister's, June 9th

Thank you to all who attended and who

supported from a distance!

It was a great success.

"…this is a beautifully written novel, an almost perfect marriage of style and story… a book to be savored on many different levels... a wonderfully compelling read.

"All in all this is a mystical tour-de-force, a spellbinding piece of writing—as I said, like nothing I’ve encountered before—I can’t imagine anyone not enjoying this fully. But it does ask the reader to think. The truths that Ian and Ta-Kuat face are universal ones all of us must in time consider." Read more...

Victor J. Banis, author and pioneer of contemporary gay fiction

"Lloyd Meeker’s debut novel, Traveling Light, is a winner. This is one of the most delightful and imaginative stories I’ve read in years. This paranormal tale weaves time travel with dabbling in the spirit world, unique spirits who guide or hinder, and wise old shamans who expound spiritual wisdom without making it into a sermon. In short, it is a unique and absorbing read.

"It is a complex plot played out on several levels. Between bouts of lovemaking, the apprentices must help each other unravel riddles and mysteries. They must battle internal emotions gone mad, and evil shamans. By the end, they uncover universal truths that each of us, in the empty and lonely parts of our lives, must confront.  I walked away from this book feeling a little wiser. I don’t see how anybody wouldn’t...I felt this was a delightful and mystical journey, both for the characters and the reader. Utterly enjoyable. I can highly recommend this book to all readers who like to tickle their imaginations." Read more...

Alan Chin, author of Island Song, The Lonely War, Match Maker and Butterfly's Chld

"Traveling Light is a story unlike almost anything I've read before, though it did remind me of reading Carlos Castaneda as a college student. The writing is so wonderful that you're carried along on the story, getting to know Ian, a nurse in Vancouver, and the patients he works with as much as Ta-Kuat, a 13th century shaman from the Anasazi tribe whose story intersects with Ian's.

"The love scenes between Ian and Ta-Kuat, and between Ian and Ta-Kuat when he's inhabiting a modern man's body, are beautifully written, erotic without being explicit at all.

I couldn't put this one down, partly because of the writing, and partly because the world Meeker creates is so entrancing."

Neil S. Plakcy, award-winning author of the Mahu mystery series and other novels

"I want my students to discover such a book as Traveling Light and to fall in love with it. I want them to be swept away into its multi-time dimensional love story the way I was."

Sandy Brown Jensen, poet, novelist, essayist, artist, creative writing teacher

"I for one loving romance and intrigue was sucked right in, seeing myself in the characters of the novel, even wanting to be in their midst regardless of gender, theirs or mine. Nothing but rave reviews from me, nothin' but net, SCORE!"

F. Elena Ladd, psychologist