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Pizza Delivery… “Umm, are you a witch?”
It didn’t occur to me why the contractor was looking over my shoulder and fidgeting nervously. It didn’t occur to me until after he’d left. I wonder how long he’d been staring at the Anubis statues and the ritual dagger sitting next to a piece of parchment dotted with my blood. Across from that, the offering bowl with burnt bits of…
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The Best Of…
Today I really didn’t have much profound to talk about (it’s payroll!) so I thought I’d do a BEST OF post to share with you some of my favorite blog entries from years past. Back in 2009 I shared some of my views of Pre-1990 Paganism and magick. Back in the day when I started out — it wasn’t “The Craft”.…
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Shorter Series
I’ve been following a lot of series work in the paranormal mystery/urban fantasy genres and it seems to me far too many series start sucking between books 6-8. Rowling was smart to end Harry Potter on number 7. That was just the right number of books to tell the story she wanted to tell. Right now I’m on book 7…
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Healthy Changes or Futile Effort?
So more and more I read about how they’re just now discovering how all these chemicals in stuff we use everyday can cause everything from obesity to cancer to birth defects and infertility. See, what happened is we were so busy rushing this, that, and the other to market that we completely skipped the whole testing thing. Now that we…
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The Shy Writer
Earlier this week I wrote a post about fantasy author Steph Swainston’s career change and how I felt about all the things she really disliked about being a career novelist. There’s a part of every person’s job that they may dislike or not be so good at. So today I’m going to share with everyone my biggest obstacle as a career…
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To Keep Silent
A lot of people ask me why I don’t blabber on and on about my magickal work online. I guess they assume that if I’m not talking about what I do spiritually, that my spirituality doesn’t exist. That couldn’t be further from the truth actually. Quite honestly the reason I don’t chat about my spirituality constantly is because what I’m…
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A Day in the Life
I woke up to the laughter of characters. They have entire scenes and dialogues already worked out and they’re begging me to write them down. Sadly I don’t work on “character” time. I’ve got responsibilities. I have to get up, get ready, and go to the office for the day because I’ve agreed to help at the family business. Now…
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Fans, Publishers, and the Writing Life
The entire story that broke over the weekend about Author Steph Swainston giving up her day job (writing) to teach chemistry has a lot of writers whispering. Are publishers really expecting too much from writers by expecting them to crank out a novel a year? Is the Internet really poison to authors? Are fans putting too much pressure on authors? Are the critical…
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Hold, Please.
Earlier this morning on the news they were talking about how our economy was moving toward a service based industry. (This news on the same day that our space shuttle program runs its last mission nonetheless. ::sob::) The coining of our economy as service-based — this is usually a bad sign. It generally means there isn’t as much of a…
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Structure
I’m feeling like perhaps I should create some structure for this blog. It’s so haphazard at the moment that I imagine it could be difficult for readers to follow what they’re interested in and skip the stuff they’re not. I mean, there are always the options to the left. If you click on one of my author names it will take…