The time has come for me to get off of my metaphysical butt and start doing something with this journal! The last few months have been a rollercoaster of ups and downs, highs and lows. Many wonderful and not so wonderful things have gone down lately, and I must admit that I’m feeling spiritually lost at the moment. Ok, maybe not so much lost as neutral. That’s as good a word as any to describe how I am feeling. My first book is doing well, but not quite as large a reception as I had hoped for. The magickal community has been bitching about a lack of advanced text for years, but interest in spell-books, Wicca-Lite, and general fluff-bunny 101 books remain high and are still overshadowing serious advanced work. A mystery…
I met many wonderful people, publishers, shop owners, and authors at this years INATS show in Denver. Everyone from New Page books turned out to be simply wonderful. The author highlights were Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and Christopher Penczak. Oberon is a hoot, and even though we had very little time to talk at the show, Christopher and I have had many conversations via e-mail and are hitting it off well. Chris won some well-deserved awards for his books at the show, and I look forward to spending some one-on-one time with him at a future event.
My family has had a few bad financial setbacks over the last few weeks and things are very tight for us right now. I have had to cancel several appearances because of our current situation, which I am understandably unhappy about. I hope to make them up once things have tuned around for us, but for right now traveling too far from home is an impossibility.
On the upside, I have a wonderful new project in the works! I have been asked to do a monthly feature column for Ghostvillage.com by site owner and fellow author Jeff Belanger. The feature is entitled The Witchcraft Connection: Metaphysical Investigations Into the Paranormal. I have assembled a team of highly trained Witches to help me with investigations, and we have had some pretty interesting results so far! The team is called W.I.S.P. (Witches in Search of the Paranormal). My column and the teams archived investigations can be accessed at: http://www.ghostvillage.com/resources/index.shtml
A busy day ahead so I should be going for now. More soon! Fox
