S.J. Reisner's Blog

I’ve always loved a deadline. I’m one of those people who thrives on deadlines. I do some of my best work under pressure. When I decided, at the tender age of seventeen, that I was going to be a professional journalist, it was theadrenalinerush of the deadline that made me think I’d love working for a newspaper.

Throughout college I remember putting off twenty-page papers until the night before they were due, then sucking down pots of coffee and working into the wee hours of morning to finish...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what happened to my patience. Somewhere along the line I lost it. I’ve lost it with the I-want-to-write-books-to-get-rich-quickwriters, and I’ve lost it with those who dabble in Demonolatry and the occult.Then yesterday I read a post by Aleq Grai that really hit the nail on the head. And the reality is it’s not just Wicca where this is happening — this same phenomena extends to just about everything these days. So many members of the younger generation wa...

Okay, maybe I’m being a bit unfair with the title of this post. Daemonolatry Organizations aren’t insignificant, but they are greatly misunderstood. People seem to think they’re like other occult orgs out there like Temple of Set, Golden Dawn (if I say GD in my posts, please know I often mean GenDem instead of Golden Dawn, I apologize for any confusion this has caused or may have caused in the past), or OTO.

The reality is they’re not quite the same thing. First – there is no such thing as an...

Ah, that ever elusive topic of being responsible for oneself. Self responsibility seems like a rarity these days. Recently I overheard a woman explaining to a group of people why she got a DUI. Because, you know, it wasn’t really her fault. No, she was driving along, minding her own business when she swerved (on accident) and the oncoming car hit her. So when the police got there, because she just happened to have some alcohol (it was a tiny bit- yeah, enough to get her convicted of felony ve...

So in this month’s Merry-Go-Round blog post we were asked to talk about who influenced us as a writer. Next to that, inparenthesis, it said: (i.e. who would you like to be compared to?) When I was a teenager back in the late 80′s the answer would have been, hands down, David Eddings. I idolized David Eddings. But that’s not who I ended up being compared to. Nope.

I really try not to read reviews of my books. I do, but sometimes you just have to, no matter how brutal. I remember clamping my jaw...

Yes, I’m lifting blog prompts again. Can’t help it – I run across them and think to myself, “Hey, I have something to say about that.”

Today’s lifted blog prompt is about a writer’s image.

As the ‘celebrity’ networking, blogging, twittering rules go — don’t talk smack about others, don’t be a downer, don’t constantly talk about things you dislike or bad things that have happened to you, don’t get too personal, try to make others feel good about themselves, and respect others. These are relative...

In the past few days I’ve found myself in several discussions about what it means to be a woman in the United States.

Evidently some conservative women now believe that us liberal feminists (neither of which are bad words unless they escape the lips of a conservative) are down on stay-at-home-moms and are somehow marginalizing the job of being a wife and mother all because some women rolled their eyes at Mitt Romney’s wife running around the country speaking to issues of “working mothers”.

The...

I think I posted once, many months ago, about how we can sometimes end up guilty by association. With social networking, and especially with people like me who use social networking to reach the widest audience possible, I have no doubt many of us are unfairly judged by who we may have chosen to “friend” or even “unfriend”. I have people on my FB who are members of certain groups disliked by other groups, and FB friends who are ex-members of this group or that group. Today, in a group I help...

One thing I've learned over the years is you really can lead horses to water, but you can't make them drink.  This is especially true when it comes to teaching whether you're training someone for a job or apprenticing a student in magick.  Sometimes the only thing you can do is share the information and let the other person take that information and use it to accomplish whatever it is they seek to accomplish.

Now in some instances you can actually show someone something, but after that the...

 Into Darkness by Audrey Brice

Magus Elizabeth Tanner has been gifted some cursed magickal items. While trying to break the curse, she and her boyfriend Michael become suspects in a murder they didn't commit. To clear their names they must find the real killer by delving into a dark bdsm underworld where sex magick and the Daemonic meet. Will they be able to find a killer, clear their names, and escape their descent into darkness?

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