2021 Supernatural Say-So
Let's Get Our Pagan On!
Gratitude is the mother of all virtues
We’re already wrapping up 2021...
Winter Solstice 2021
World wisdom of the ages, and Mother Nature herself, tell us that today is a day to recalibrate, reflect, and boost our inner light...
We’re already wrapping up 2021...
Gratitude is the mother of all virtues
We’re already wrapping up 2021...
December 2021
Hello dear reader, welcome to a December, new moon episode of my Supernatural Say-So, in which this indie author sets out to dance off the rails....
Gratitude is the mother of all virtues
Gratitude is the mother of all virtues
Gratitude is the mother of all virtues
November 2021
So far, November has been a love and light fest among family and friends. It is the kind of merriment that promises to last straight through to the New Year...
If at first you don't succeed...
The end-of-year slipstream kickoff
Gratitude is the mother of all virtues
October 2021
Most of us know what our failings are, and we try to work on them—some with more success than others.
In true Aquarian fashion, living in the future is one of my double-edged traits...
The end-of-year slipstream kickoff
The end-of-year slipstream kickoff
The end-of-year slipstream kickoff
August 2021
The ride to the end of August seems like a blur, now that we are in the threshold of September. We all know there were no events in 2020, and patchy 2021 will yield only four...
It's not always doom and gloom
The end-of-year slipstream kickoff
The end-of-year slipstream kickoff
July 2021
Impostor Syndrome: (noun) the persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one's own efforts or skills.
No harm, no foul
Secondary Protocol
June 2021
Well, secondary protocol did extend beyond 5/31/2021. But only to June 11, so, no harm no foul, and adaptation of Faery Sight into Spanish is complete now!
Secondary Protocol
Secondary Protocol
May 2021
If you follow me on social media, you might have noticed a Secondary Protocol kicked in on May 10, 2021 and is in effect through the 31st...
Will a new variant catch on?
Will a new variant catch on?
April 2021
In hindsight, what felt like toilsome growth for indies, up until 2019, turned out to have been an ideal par for the course situation...
Spring is Springing
Love and Gratitude are in the air
Will a new variant catch on?
March 2021
A year ago, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.
We are not out of the woods, to be sure, yet we have Rain, Sunshine, Flowers, and Hope is in the air!
Love and Gratitude are in the air
Love and Gratitude are in the air
Love and Gratitude are in the air
February 2021
Another lunar cycle begins today—Happy New Moon, everyone!
Love and Gratitude are in the air this month, and that’s my truth!
First New Moon
Love and Gratitude are in the air
Love and Gratitude are in the air
January 2021
Welcome to what promises to be,
at least for me, a hybrid year;
part supernatural, part scientific.
Are you ready for this?
2020 Supernatural Say-So
'Tis the season for Yuletide miracles
'Tis the season for Yuletide miracles
'Tis the season for Yuletide miracles
December 2020
Promptly at the beginning of this, the last month in 2020, I checked my horoscope. And what did the stars tell me about December?
Well, there were quite a few paragraphs, but I’ll share this one sentence...
The Blue Moon Cast its Spell
'Tis the season for Yuletide miracles
'Tis the season for Yuletide miracles
November 2020
My first virtual event met and surpassed
my most magical expectations!
Yes, a Blue Moon coinciding with All Hallows Eve lit the auspicious path toward launching my 5th novel...
Supernatural Trifecta
'Tis the season for Yuletide miracles
Something magical this way comes
September 2020
Love & Homegrown Magic
Coming with the Blue Moon!
While we wait, here is the COVER REVEAL
Art & Interior Design by MiblArt
Once in a blue moon...
Coming in just three months, YIKES!
August 2020
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.
Coming in just three months, YIKES!
Coming in just three months, YIKES!
Profound change
June 2020
This twenty-five-hundred-year-old bit of wisdom found me a few days ago and kindled a light at a time when civil unrest and racial injustice roil the airwaves, stirring every feeling of rebellion, clamoring for change—real change, now.
Purple Prose: For it or Against it?
May 2020
“text that is so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw excessive attention to itself.”
...should be avoided at all costs in contemporary works, they say...
Finding Solace in Collective Wisdom
Oh my! How daily life has changed...
April 2020
Humanity has confronted and endured a great many calamities in recorded history, a lot of which have been of our own making. So, as plagues go, we would be fools to take our next steps without assimilating lessons learned from the past.
Oh my! How daily life has changed...
Oh my! How daily life has changed...
March 2020
Right about now most of us are practicing varying degrees of self-isolation and social distancing. We are adjusting to this paradigm shift as best we can and finding that...
Onward and Upward
February 2020
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!
Walking the Walk in 2020
January 2020
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...
2019 Supernatural Say-So
End of Year Sneak Peek
December 2019
The 2019 trip around the sun is coming to a close with as festive a spirit as I could wish for.
This whirlwind year ─filled with love, adventure, and hard work, saw me...
Gratitude is an Attitude
November 2019
It went by quick, didn’t it? It’s already been a year and some change since the launch of award-winning Seven Ghostly Spins: a brush with the supernatural, on All Souls Day 2018—so happy belated birthday to my most recent supernatural escape!
Procrastination
October 2019
You know you’re a procrastinator if there’s a task to be done and instead of tackling it, you divert your attention to unrelated activities.
I might be a lost cause...
Welcome Fall
September 2019
Made it back from FanX in spectacular Salt Lake City!
I got to take part in yet another unforgettable event and my heart is filled with gratitude for the organizers, for my supernatural entourage (you know who you are), and for all the fans...
It's that time again
The Moon and the Waterbearer
August 2019
This month brings a short and sweet newsletter as I am in a flurry of activity preparing for my annual pilgrimage to a comic convention—
The Moon and the Waterbearer
The Moon and the Waterbearer
July 2019
Disclaimer: I am writing this while under the influence of the full moon (July 16) and therefore, surrendering to its radiant clarity...
Hatching a Strategy
June 2019
A few months ago, I read a compelling marketing pitch online that ended with a tantalizing goad: schedule your free consultation only if you are serious about achieving your goals...
Gleaning Wisdom
May 2019
Far from afraid to admit it, I acknowledge that I am obsessed with my journey. For 3 years I have been a full-time indie writer...
Wending and Winding in dappled sunlight
April 2019
Three years ago, I embarked on a journey that will last the rest of my days—a multidimensional voyage, if you will...
An Irish Blessing For You
March 2019
"These things, I warmly wish for you: Someone to love, Some work to do, A bit of o’ sun, A bit o’ cheer, And a guardian angel always near."
“…the deepest beauty of love is how it changes lives.” –Rabbi David Wolpe
“…the deepest beauty of love is how it changes lives.” –Rabbi David Wolpe
February 2019
“All You Need Is Love” chanted the Beatles a few decades ago, and for all the complexities a four-letter word may encompass, that short sentence is a simple truth…
Auspicious 2019
“…the deepest beauty of love is how it changes lives.” –Rabbi David Wolpe
January 2019
Did you formulate resolutions on New Year’s Eve? If (like me) you did not, how about this alternative?
2018 Supernatural Say-So
Business Un-Usual
December 2018
“I know you think you have the next Harry Potter book, but still, don’t call me, and whatever you do, don’t show up in person with your offering…
Read More...
An Attitude of Gratitude
November 2018
It has been six days since the official launch of Seven Ghostly Spins on All Souls Day (Día de los Muertos), and I’m still basking in the glow of its wonderful reception...
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As usual, the universe has impeccable timing
October 2018
Allow me to explain;
After declining a contributory publishing contract a few days ago, just as it has happened with other literary proposals, I was left wondering…
Running away with the circus
September 2018
This month brings another short and sweet newsletter as I’m in a flurry of activity wrapped in anticipation! When you read this…
Savoring the next level
August 2018
A flurry of activity ensued on July 31, after I closed the beta-reading stage of my Seven Ghostly Spins; I spent five days…
Signs Everywhere!
July 2018
I’m always looking to broaden my perspective, especially if a new age twist is involved, so over the years I have dabbled in esoteric interests…
Totally in the throes of a 'bookbirth'
June 2018
I’ve retreated into my cave, where my days breakdown into spells of anguish, hourly bouts of procrastination, wondrous flashes of cosmic hope…
Pulling a Rapunzel for Mother's Day
May 2018
The dictionary says; met·a·phys·ics is the branch of philosophy that deals with first principles, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space…
Bit of a Midas Touch!
April 2018
Someone told me once that happiness expands when shared, while sorrow diminishes…
…Faery rings marked the place where elves or faeries had danced
March 2018
Way before indoor plumbing, electricity and telecommunications, knowledge was recorded in cave walls, in parchment scrolls, and in the minds of bards who sang to their tribes…
This above all—to thine own self be true…
February 2018
Being an indie author is a daily struggle to stay emotionally afloat, to keep chasing after my dream, to build myself up when outside forces chip at my self-confidence…
Disconcerting Holidays
January 2018
I loved spending Christmas and New Year's with my kiddos and my honey—yet the magic of it dimmed a little with the unexpected visit of a cold on December 24th…
2017 Supernatural say-so
A creepy sense of urgency today
December 2017
Heat waves, small earthquakes, wind advisories, raging wildfires, evacuations—Is 2017 shutting down with a bang?
The Unexpected Series
November 2017
When I set out to write Faery Sight, my intent wasn’t to produce a full-length novel, much less a series. I just wanted to entertain people in my family…
The Write Dimension
October 2017
Through my mind flit crazy superstitious thoughts, like, if I pour coffee into this cup, which innocently bears the definition of ‘writers block’, would the meaning of the words seep into the brew and infuse it with a curse?
“Have you ever heard of Evel Knievel?”
September 2017
Says A.J. to Bear and Lev, right before they purposely launch off the asteroid’s surface. (Armageddon 1998) The brief euphoria of having pulled off the gutsy move fizzles out…