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Halloween, Blue Moon, and Love & Homegrown Magic...

With the Blue Moon comes a spell 
Sewn from stardust and tradition.
Let it touch your heart and
Come into the enchanted garden of
Love & Homegrown Magic 

Folk Magic is, as ever, the magic of the people and as such, it lends itself to customization. My new novel, Love & Homegrown Magic, offers its own brand of it.

I have completed the rough draft of my latest manuscript—ta-dah!That’s why this newsletter is roughly fifteen days behind schedule…sigh. Anywho, I ...

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." –Socrates

“Purple is a homage to nature and to what human ingenuity can do with nature's givens.” –Paul West

May 09, 2020 "I believe that as fiction writers, we fulfill a collective need to escape reality while launching alternate perspectives into the uni...

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; We must die to one life before we can enter another.” —Anatole France

"SciFi-ish as it may seem, I feel the planet-wide overhaul has begun in earnest, and Mother Nature herself is heading it."

"We are about 50 days into the reprising roaring 20s, and already I am overwhelmed by a sense of my sails having caught an auspicious wind—eyes fixed on the dazzling horizon!"

We’re about half-way through the first month of a new decade and, before we go any further, I’d like to acknowledge to you my theme for 2020—it is based on a bit of wisdom I came across on social media...

The 2019 trip around the sun is coming to a close with as festive a spirit as I could wish for. It has been a whirlwind year ─filled with love, adventure, and hard work...