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The Plague God is out!

Published by Mary on October 31, 2023

Today, for Halloween (or Samhain if you celebrate), I’m releasing book 5 of Tales of the End Times: The Plague God.

In the new novel, the dangerous angel of the dark moon, Suriyel, has vowed to take revenge on Joanie. That revenge extends across all time.

During the Black Death, an earlier Joanie meets her lover, the angel Azazel, in a magic circle. But that magic inflicts destruction. In the here and now, Joanie makes a pact with the plague god Nergal, only to have pandemic threaten. In the near future, white supremacist militia capture Joanie and her friends. They escape across the desert, but someone gets left behind. Can the incubus-succubus Puabi-Ekur help them perform a rescue?

Through it all, Joanie’s angel and incubus stand to protect her—until one of them decides it’s too much.

Find a link to the book on Amazon, free for now on Kindle Unlimited!

Book 5 ebook preorder

Published by Mary on October 5, 2023

At long last, and worth the wait—book 5 of Tales of the End Times, The Plague God, is ready for preorder as an ebook! Link below!

I’ll post again when the print and ebook final is out—for Samhain (Halloween), the Witches’ New Year!

(Image is The Sons of God Saw the Daughters of Men That They Were Fair, by Maurice Greiffenhagen—final cover to come.)

The time in between

Published by Mary on May 24, 2021
Bench in Pompeii

This bench in Pompeii, in a picture taken several years ago, sits in between visitors, waiting. I’ve finished a draft of book 4 of the series, working title Arise, You Rebel Angels, and it’s with beta readers. I’m giving myself a brief break between periods of writing.

I’ve always been fond of in-between time—when I was in college, going to my parents’ house and back on the bus, the passage looking out the window, watching the dark landscape go by, was one of my favorite times. No responsibilities, no set location. I’m in between also on vaccine status—two shots down, waiting for full immunity in June.

The eddy of time before a new current takes hold.

Bealtaine continued

Published by Mary on May 3, 2021
Aphrodite statue, shells, and coral

Bealtaine traditionally was a season, and as part of that fey and amorous season I’ve sent the fourth book of my series to beta readers. And huzzah for that.

If all goes to plan, it should be out by the end of the year.

The end is near

Published by Mary on April 11, 2021
Image of a crow's wing

I’ve turned the corner, y’all. I’m almost done with a draft.

Fair warning—this one is going to be full of a lot of angels. Witch-friendly angels, witch-father angels, but angels.

Ch-ch-changes

Published by Mary on April 1, 2021
Blooming flowering plum tree

In this book, my incubus-succubus changes gender nearly every short section. A copy editor’s nightmare! Oh well.

Early spring

Published by Mary on March 10, 2021
Path with trees and power lines, early morning, springtime

There’s ice on the puddles, but still it’s early spring.

It’s been a long winter for most of us. I haven’t had the plague hit my family, thank the gods, but I think everyone’s been touched by that and the US political upheavals of the turn of the year.

But I’m halfway through a draft of the fourth book of my series, and this one’s going to have an angel in it.

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…