Welcome to Forests Haunted by Holiness. In this blog — where I hope to post at least once a month, but probably more often — readers will find everything from original short stories and original poems, to exclusive excerpts from my forthcoming novelettes and novellas, to ramblings about my To Be Read pile, to grumblings about my garden, to musings on myths and fairy tales and other sacred stories, to interviews with other creators. Content will be tagged accordingly:
Climbing Mount TBR (celebrating my latest literary acquisition, which I may or may not get around to reading and reviewing)
Exclusive! (pre-release excerpts from my upcoming novelettes, novellas, and short story and poetry collections, usually with a pre-order link)
Fiction (original, previously unpublished short stories and novelettes)
Gaia’s Grace (gardening, herbs, and occasionally recipes)
A Gift From the Muses (story ideas! use them as you see fit)
Interview (sit-downs with editors, authors, and poets whose work is of interest to a Pagan/polytheist audience)
Musings (thoughts on fairy tales, folktales, myths, and other sacred stories, as well as the process of writing)
Poetry (both previously unpublished poems and those which saw only a very limited distribution)
Review (usually books, but occasionally television series and movies, as well)
Additionally, check out the Recommendations pages, where I list more than a few titles in different genres, which I think will be of interest to you.
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Interview: Katie Ness, author of Word Witchery: Walking the Path of the Poetry Priestess
Five Questions With: Irisanya Moon, author of Pantheon: The Greeks
Interview: Dawn Leith Dougherty, author of Sage Advice
Interview: Anu Dudley, author of The Goddess Casts the Runes
Climbing Mount TBR: Witches and Fairies and Devils, Oh My!
Call for Submissions: Witches Save the World
Review: The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond
Review: A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by Stephanie Burgis
Review: Waifs and Strays by Helen Harper
Five Questions With: Morgan Daimler, author of Pagan Portals: Thor
Five Questions With: Juliette Jarvis, founder of Raven Tongue
Review: Magic Forsaken by Kenley Davidson
Five Questions With: Laura Perry, author of Pantheon: The Minoans
Review: The Gryphonpike Chronicles by Annie Bellet
Musings: On Book Hiatuses and the Conscientious Consumption of Literature
Interview: Adam Bolivar, author of Told by Firelight in Timbered Halls and A Wheel of Ravens
Five Questions With: Kim Malinowski, author of Lilith: Weaving Mountains Into Canyons
Interview: Pauline Breen, author of Pagan Portals: Maman Brigitte and Pagan Portals: Brigantia
Interview: Ren Alder, author of Harmonic Dissidents
Interview: Susan Harper, author of Pagan Portals: Feminist Witchcraft
Review: A Drizzle of Magic by S. Usher Evans
Update: Vampires Save the (Day) Night
Interview: Brett Hollyhead, author of Sabrina: Discovering the Goddess of the River Severn
Review: The Witch Is Inn by Leah R. Cutter
Interview: Morgan Daimler, author of Paid With a Kiss: Love and Sex in Fairy Belief
Interview: Irisanya Moon, author of Hestia: Goddess of Hearth, Home, and Community
Interview: Luke Eastwood, author of Scotia: Lost Sister of Tutankhamun
Review: The Witch of Criswell by John Michael Greer
Interview: Doctor Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran of Folklore and Fiction
Review: The Season of Dragons by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Interview: Raven Digitalis, author of Magick for Empaths
Musings: How We limit Our Stories
Musings: Some Days, I Write Out of Spite
Interview: Lynn Strong, author of Chai and Cat-Tales
Musings: On the Importance of Beta Readers, Proof Copies, and Margin Scribbles
Musings: On Christmas Trees and Sympathetic Magic
Call for Submissions: When Vampires Save the Day (Night)
Interview: Melanie Godfrey, author of The Magic of the Seal: Ocean Messengers
Interview: Manuel Paul Arenas, author of The Burning Ember Mission of Helldorado
Interview: Thea Prothero, author of Pagan Portals: A Guide to Pilgrimage
Interview: K.A. Opperman, author of At Summer’s Wistful End: Last Poems for Halloween
Interview: Louisa West, author of the Midlife in Mosswood series and the Sleepy Hollow Mysteries series
Interview: Dennis Wilson Wise, editor of Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology
Review: Shadows of Winter (The Curse and the Crown Book One)
Interview: Kalli O’Connor, author of the Love ReVamped series
Review: Traveler From the West (A Swordmistress Zhen Tale Book One)
Climbing Mount TBR: Dance of the Sun Goddess
Musings: Writing For an Audience of One
Interview: HL Hines, author of the Seasons of Treason series
A Gift From the Muses: Idea One
Poem: roads are the roots of cities
Interview: Sally Walker, author of A Westerly Wind Brings Witches: A Cornish Odyssey
Interview: Luke Eastwood, author of A Path Through the Forest: Collected Essays on Druidry
Interview: Irisanya Moon, author of Pagan Portals: Artemis
Musings: Where Are All the Witchy Dental Hygienists?
Interview: Lucya Starza, author of Erosion: Of Friendship, Dreams, and the Edge of a Cliff
Fiction: The Five of the Queen
Review: Tattered Huntress (Thrill of the Hunt Book One)
Review: Bespoke and Bespelled (Movie Magic Book One)
Musings: Don’t Steal Someone Else’s Gold
Review: The Dead Trees (The Stalker Chronicles Book Two)
Eternal Haunted Summer 