Never Goodbye

About the Book

Fifteen-year-old Katy McCall has lost her brother Evan in a tragic accident. Guilt, grief and depression overwhelm her.

Katy finds help from unexpected sources. A stranger suggests, "If death is not the end, then perhaps your brother can answer some of your questions."

Katy wonders who the person is who looks like Evan, and sounds like Evan? Is he a ghost, an angel, or is this really Evan? Who is giving this Evan all these amazing ideas?

Journey with Katy as she explores the nature of Love, Life, Death, Truth and Reality.

About the Author

Vivian Beckingham is a Rehabilitation Support Worker and an aspiring writer, who began writing for adolescents and young adults by accident. As a child and teenager, she had troubles reading and writing, so the thought of writing a novel was impossible to imagine.

Vivian repeated English 30 during summer school to improve her writing skills and prepare for university and discovered that she could write. After graduating from university with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, the idea of writing and illustrating her own line of children's books was born.

She enrolled in a correspondence course from The Institute of Children's literature, from Redding, Connecticut, in the fall of 1986. When she finally conquered her fear of writing, Vivian realized two facts: first, her style of writing was for teens and young adult and second, she enjoyed writing more than drawing and illustrating.

The last assignment in the writing course gave the student two options, create a long short story, or write the first three chapters of a book. If you chose to write the three chapters, then you also had to create an outline of the book and a character study. Since Vivian disliked creating outlines and did not believe she could write a book, she chose to write the long short story.

Vivian had originally begun to write a light teen romance. During the writing of the first chapter, she imagined hearing the character Katy saying, "But the terminator never dies." At that moment she knew that the theme of the book would deal with death and the illusion of death being the end.

In a few months, she had written the three chapters. In April of 1988, she graduated. A year later, she finished the first draft of her book.

Over 10 rewrites and 16 years later, Vivian completed her book in September of 2002. Over those 16 years, Vivian journeyed away from thoughts of improbability and disbelief, towards thoughts of optimism, possibilities and the belief in miracles and the creative spirit.

She believes that, "If I can create a miracle, then anyone can."