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Halloween Reads 2016! #halloween #scarystories #haunted
It’s that time of year again! Time for me to share some of my most haunting stories with you. My hope is you’ll check a few of them out. If you’re into tales of hauntings and ghosts, you’ll definitely want to read The Danbury Ghost, Samuel, and Rocky Mountain Haunt! For a quick free read sure to leave you spooked,…
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Top Influences In Recent Years
The other day I wrote a post about two Irish writers who have deeply influenced me as both a reader and a writer in recent years. Someone asked me if I would share list of writers that have influenced my own work and explain why they were so influential. I decided it wouldn’t hurt. Mind you the list is always…
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How I Fell in Love With Two Irish Writers
I didn’t mean to. I mean, I’d heard about their books and people told me I should check out their work and so I did. I put Maeve Binchy’s Circle of Friends and Paul Murray’s An Evening of Long Goodbyes on my to-be-read list and that was that. For years those books sat on the TBR list, and for years I…
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Tracking Reading – What We Learn
Last year I finally decided I was going to make a concerted effort to actually track the books I read. Not only to see how much I was reading, but what I was reading. So around the end of April last year I started to track using Goodreads. After the first year was over I realized that while I missed…
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Steph’s List of the Best Genre Books of 2015
Okay – so the truth is I’ve only read about 37 books so far this year, and only some of them were published in 2015 (about 10 of them), but hear me out. Read to the end because I have an idea. After reading some of the vapid “Best of 2015” book lists from the New York Times, I found…
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Her Demon Wedding #demonwedding
Her Demon Wedding by Anne O’Connell is now available. A year after her D/s relationship with a demon began, Lori Penhall finds herself overwhelmed with family and wedding plans. When more secrets about her demon lover Michael are revealed, and Lori’s ex shows up, Lori’s formal human-wedding takes a turn for the worse. Between a demon father-in-law and other surprises,…
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Why I Prefer to Promote What I Love Instead of Bashing What I Hate
Today I read an old blog post on Slate from 2012 by someone who is tired of people being nice to writers on the internet. Okay, okay – maybe that’s not exactly what I was supposed to take away from the article, but it actually *is* what I took away from it. Basically, the author of said article asks the big money…
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Book Collection
I am often asked about my occult book collection. It’s large enough. No, it’s not exclusively full of limited edition hardcovers or too much collection worthy. In fact, a lot of it is relatively standard. I keep everything I purchase, no matter how awful, just so the coven has access if anything. I keep these books in the temple for easy…
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Great Halloween Reads!!!
I write a lot of horror, paranormal, and thrillers by virtue of my nature. I have also written my fair share on the topic of necromancy. What a better time of year than October to recommend some of my scarier books (or necromantic reads for those into my NF) to readers who want something to read this Halloween/Samhain/Day of the Dead…
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Why I Had to Start Charging (More)
Once again the question has come up why I started charging more for readings. I figured I’d best write a blog post so not only people know, but I can direct them to this blog post when they ask in the future. Back in 2005 I didn’t charge for readings at all. If ANYONE asked, I would read their natal…
