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Category: Tales of the End Times

Starting a new book

Published by Mary on January 29, 2021
Two oracle cards, a snake and a rose garden

You know the old adage that you need to get your characters in trouble as fast as possible, in a book? Since I identify with my characters, it often feels as if I’m getting in trouble as fast as I can. Luckily writing a book is good trouble to be in.

Yesterday I sat down with a dear friend who is vastly knowledgeable in cosmologies and got a brain dump, and the Garden of Eden (as seen through a gnostic lens) came up. Emphasis on snake.

This is the reading from two of my favorite decks this morning. (The decks are Laura Tempest Zakroff’s Liminal Spirits Oracle and the Secret Dakini Oracle.)

Trouble is brewing…

Samhain blessings

Published by Mary on October 31, 2020
An altar with a black cloth, two candles, a resin skull, and some glittery faux bones

It’s out today, my lovely book, the third of the Tales of the End Times series: The Way to Witch Farm.

To order it, you can go to Amazon here (and you can get it free with Kindle Unlimited): https://amzn.to/3mIDBWT

To get the series, you can go here: https://amzn.to/3jL2gIm

Today is Samhain, the Witches New Year, and a full moon besides that. My coven and I will scry tonight, looking forward to a future that may yet be bright. In honor of the holiday, here’s a Samhain excerpt from the book.

“Now we will make offerings to Hekate, Dea, and the ancestors, asking for their help.”

The line started forward. Along the altar, the attendees moved from one incense burner to the next. Hekate received a blend containing mint and aconite, Dea patchouli with rose, the spirits mugwort and sandalwood.

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Red sun

Published by Mary on September 10, 2020
Red sun rising in fir trees

The red sun rose like a portent this morning.

On the West Coast, California, Oregon, parts of Washington are burning. My country is falling apart.

May cooling rains contain this fire.

And if my country can change this much this fast—maybe it can change this fast for the good.

Another world is possible.

Another book is on the way, possibly as early as Samhain.

Finishing the harvest

Published by Mary on September 7, 2020
An apple tree with apples

I’m finishing the line-edit for the third book in the series today. This part is one of my favorite things about writing, refining line by line: mostly cutting and moving punctuation, sometimes moving words.

The picture of the apples is from a few days ago. A bear came and ate nearly all of them the other morning, climbing through the tree to get them. I’m okay with my neighbors getting most of my apple harvest.

I’ve named the third book The Way to Witch Farm.

Nearly apple harvest

Published by Mary on August 18, 2020
Apples on a tree

I haven’t had a lot to say—what’s to say about the political world, in essays and social media, is being said by other folks.

I’m on the third draft of the next book, which will feature some impassioned Antifa folks and some protests, as well as Hekate and everyone else. In the meantime, this day of the new moon, I watch my apples ripen.

Once upon a time

Published by Mary on February 23, 2020
Dawn light on my drive

This morning, early, roughly at the new moon, I finished a draft of book three. The working title is The Horned God, but that’s only a working title. (There’s a lot of other Horned Gods out there.)

I’m exhausted and proud. I think I’m going to take a bath and let the sense of fulfillment sink in.