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Announcing The New Aradia
I’m pleased to announce that one of my invocations has been selected for inclusion in The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance, available at the end of this month! Editor Laura Tempest Zakroff and the folks at Revelore Press have put together an incredible collection of great material for this anthology. I’m honored to be in some really impressive company, including Christopher Penczak, Ivo Dominguez Jr., Laura Tempest Zakroff, Mat Auryn, Storm Faerywolf, and Byron Ballard, just to name a few. From the publisher: “The New Aradia is a handbook is designed to serve as a collection of ideas to teach, share, inspire, empower, protect, and guide. Within…
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NeoWiccan Texts and Reading Material
Are you interested in some of the popular NeoWiccan texts? There are a variety of documents available to explore if you’re interested in following a NeoWiccan path, and you can read nearly all of them online via these links. The Gardnerian Book of Shadows This is the text of the Book of Shadows composed and handed down by Gerald Gardner. In one sense, this is the central sacred text of the Wiccan religion. However, there is no ‘official’ Book of Shadows, and each coven usually has a hand-written copy of a Book of Shadows, sometimes in cypher or code, which reflects its own practices and knowledge. The Golden Bough The…
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Book Announcement! Wicca Practical Magic Coming May 23!
OMG YOU GUYYYYYYYS. So I mentioned a while back that I had a Sooper Sekret Project in the works, and now I can officially announce it! My new book, Wicca Practical Magic, will be coming out on May 23, from Althea Press. You can already pre-order it on Amazon! I’m really excited, because this is something I wish had been available when I first started studying Pagan belief systems. If you’ve read all the Wicca 101 type books, and have no idea how to actually put what you’ve learned into practice, this book is written just for you. I’ll have more to share in the coming weeks, with all kinds…
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The Good Witch’s Daily Spellbook
OMG YOU GUYS. I have some super exciting news! I’ve partnered with Sterling Publishing to create The Good Witch’s Daily Spellbook! This collection of 366 spells – one for each day of the year – is designed in a way that’s useful for both beginners and advanced practitioners. No fancy hard-to-find tools, no hours-long rituals, just magic on the fly when you need it – as it should be! I’m super excited about this project, and my editor, Chris Barsanti, is going to be an absolute dream to work with. TGWDSB will be out in December 2016, marketed in Barnes & Noble stores (Sterling is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BN),…
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Why I Don’t Read Vampire Romance
This originally appeared back in 2011, but it’s one of my favorites, and I wanted to re-run it, because vampires. On Vampire Romance, and Why I Think It Sucks This is partly inspired by a college essay I wrote a zillion years ago, and partly inspired by the recognition that I must be the only woman in America who doesn’t dig vampire romance. I should state ahead of time that in no way am I telling you that YOU should hate vampire romances. Read ’em if you got ’em. I’m just trying to explain why I personally think they suck. At any rate, some thoughts on the whole vampire-as-sexxeh trope:…
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Erotica That Doesn’t Suck
I originally wrote this post back in 2012, when I was still working at the Big Chain Bookstore, because all the hullaballoo over 50 Shades of Grey was driving me batshit crazy. Not because people wanted to read erotica, but because 50SoG is SO FUCKING BADLY WRITTEN. No kidding, you guys, I have a three chapter rule, and I could barely make it that far. Anyway, so I’m re-running this because, in the almost four years since I wrote my original post, even more people are reading erotica and apparently I’m That Friend You Ask About Smut. If 50SoG is gateway smut, here’s some stuff you need to read that’s…
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Scar Tissue: Zombies, Time Travel & Mad Scientists
Originally published on August 21, 2015, but moved over here for your viewing pleasure: Scar Tissue is available now for your Kindle or the Kindle app! It’s 2213, and Zanna Tradescant is one of the best Historical Interference Control agents in the district – after all, who else would let the Launch Team strap them into a pod and shoot them back in time? Not too many people would sign up for that at all, so when rogue scientist Austin Kent timerides back to 1893, carrying a deadly virus with him, Zanna’s the only one who can stop him. She’s going to need some help, though, to navigate the turn-of-the-century…
