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Sneak Peek: Into Darkness
Chapter One Saturday, June 24 The beginning was the end. Of all the stupid things I could have thought at the end of my life, that was it. I felt the clay Lucifuge amulet I wore press hard …
Posted in Audrey Brice, books, excerpts
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The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!
Publishing news is full of doom and gloom as of late. Ever since 2011 and numerous reports of independent (of a publisher) author success, I see a new article every week about why indie authors are ultimately going to fail and …
Posted in business of writing, Publishing, the writing life, thoughts
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The 2012 Garden
Hopefully my 2012 garden fairs better than my 2011 garden did. From Seed: Belladonna (this year hydro start) Nightshade (this year hydro start) Calamus (this year hydro start) Lemon Balm (this year hydro start) Mandrake (smaller pots + grow lamp) …
Posted in garden, greenhouse, Magician's Garden, seedlings, Sephira Alchemy
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The Mandrake Files – Take Two
Last year’s mandrake seed experiment was a bit of a flop. I suspect it had something to do with light and soil temp. Mandrake is a tough germinator. I shouldn’t have put them in such a big pot. I should …
Posted in Magician's Garden, mandrake files, Sephira Alchemy
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When to Give it Away…or Not
Friends of mine often send me “calls for writers”. Such “calls” are often for unpaid publication in a webzine or on a website that I’ve never heard of before. I usually politely decline or simply file the forwarded “calls for writers” in my virtual trash can. …
Ideal Readers
This month’s FM Merry-Go-Round blog is about my ideal reader. That’s an interesting topic. Especially since, as authors, it’s up to us to target our audience. My professional writing career started 1998 with the sale of my first non-fiction book, …
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My Advice… Ad Vice?
Vices. Yes, another blogging prompt stolen from someplace else. Perhaps that’s a vice? The fact that I can’t always come up with my own blogging prompts? My prompt theft aside, let’s talk vices, shall we? I used to smoke. I …
Posted in A Malkuth of Me, fun, thoughts
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What We’ve Lost
Lately I’ve been looking at Demonolatry students and it dawned on me that things just aren’t the same way they were back in the 80′s when I started out. I realized just how much modern students lose now that the master – apprentice relationship between the magus and …
Posted in grimoires, groups, Magick, S. Connolly, thoughts
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SOPA & PIPA
I have chosen, albeit controversial among my friends, not to let my website go dark on January 18, 2012 to protest SOPA and PIPA. But before anyone gets their panties in a twist, let me explain why. First – I do …
Posted in A Malkuth of Me, business of writing, the writing life
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Productivity
I have to admit – there are actually some weeks I have to search for blogging prompts. I’ve shamelessly snagged a few from the Pens Fatales over the past year, but only because I aspire to be as awesome as some of …
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