The holidays are right around the corner. Halloween kicks things off with Thanksgiving and Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanza close behind. I’ve always viewed this time of year as a special opportunity to let everyone who’s a part of my life know how much I love and appreciate them. I wish I still had living parents. I always sent them cards and called them. We’d often make the trek to Seattle or Missoula to spend holidays with Bob’s family or my own. Halloween originated with the Celts (Ireland, UK, and parts of France) over 2000 years ago. It was called Samhain and represented the demarcation between …
My Familiars Own My Ass
Yep, I have said many times that I like animals better than people. LOL And I stand by my words except when my dogs get skunked and my cats bring me gifts. Sadly, the dogs don’t understand that sniffing a skunk’s butt repeatedly ends in multiple baths and lots of swear words from Mom. The cats… forget about it. A gift is a gift even if it causes me to scream and run. I love them even with their smelly and unappetizing habits. First thing you should know about me… besides being an author I’m also a collector of stray …
Why Dragons?
Long before I wrote a single word of fiction, I was hard at work as a psychologist. Because it sang to me, I gravitated toward Jungian analysis. Humans have common experiences accessed through the dreamscape. It’s why we have Deja Vu experiences where we are certain we’ve been a certain place before. Or met a person who should be new to us. Or a dragon. In my writer’s heart, I would love to be hanging out in a turret or a huge, old tree watching dragons bugle and swoop and dive. Lovely colors merging and scales clanking as they engage …
My BFF Bigfoot!
What is a best friend? To me, it’s someone with whom you share your deepest secrets. Someone who has your back no matter what. Like when you wore gauchos to a housewarming party and no one would make eye contact with you except for your BFF. Who, I might add, complimented your heinous fashion faux pas multiple times. Or the time you ate so many hot wings and drank soooo many Mike’s Hard Lemonades that you were able to belch half of the alphabet making everyone leave the table… except for your BFF. In fact, he ripped a belch in …
Witchy Chicks: Meet Ann Gimpel and Polly Holmes
Hello, and let’s give a big witching season welcome to Witchy Chicks Ann Gimpel and Polly Holmes! Ann Gimpel Ann Gimpel is a USA Today bestselling author. She’s also a mountaineer and vagabond at heart. She’s stood on top of some really gnarly peaks, and discovered that Zen mindfulness comes in very useful when the only other option is screaming your lungs out or curling into a fetal position because you’re too scared to do anything else. What three words best describe you? Determined. Loyal. Protective. Why did you decide to write witchy fiction? Witches have always fascinated me. Their …
Witchy Chicks: Meet Renee George and Robyn Peterman
Today we’d love to introduce you to Witchy Chicks wonderful Renee George and Robyn Peterman! Renee George USA Today Bestselling Author, Renee George writes paranormal mysteries and romances because she loves all things whodunit, Otherworldly, and weird. Also, she wishes her pittie, the adorable Kona, could talk. Or at least be more like Scooby-Doo and help her unmask villains at the haunted house up the street. What three words best describe you? Adaptable, Sincere, Humorous Why did you decide to write witchy fiction? Magic is magical. During the toughest times in my life, reading books full of magic and hope …
Your Witchy Chicks hosts: Meet Yasmine Galenorn and Louisa West!
It’s our immense pleasure to introduce to you the hosts of the Witchy Chicks blog, Yasmine Galenorn and Louisa West! Yasmine Galenorn Yasmine is a New York Times, USA TODAY, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author who won a Career Achievement Award in Urban Fantasy at the Romantic Times Convention in 2012. She has over 100 books on the shelves across the genres of paranormal women’s fiction, urban fantasy, paranormal mysteries, paranormal romance, and a mix of all of these. Her series include: the Moonshadow Bay series, the Wild Hunt series, the Chintz ‘n China series, the Bewitching Bedlam series, the …