I've visited Sedona, AZ (the *very* thinly disguised location of the novel), and if the side plots had been removed, it would have lost a lot of flavor. Everything in Sedona is woo-flavored, and most things have UFO tie-ins.
You're right. Of course the novel would have been very different without the other elements. Even so, I felt the story was a Frankenstein mishmash of plot germs. I, myself, did this in my first novel attempt at the stupid age of 18.
I've visited Sedona, AZ (the *very* thinly disguised location of the novel), and if the side plots had been removed, it would have lost a lot of flavor. Everything in Sedona is woo-flavored, and most things have UFO tie-ins.
You're right. Of course the novel would have been very different without the other elements. Even so, I felt the story was a Frankenstein mishmash of plot germs. I, myself, did this in my first novel attempt at the stupid age of 18.