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August 24, 2022
Clan Witch: Found Shadows
I’m sweeping the circle. The bones and remnants of word fusions are being expelled to make way for new spells. This collection is set for release in Hogmanay 2022. The preorder is live now.
Digital ARCs will be available well in advance of release, if you are a reviewer who’d love a first look at Clan Witch: Found Shadows, my mailbox is open for enquiries to be added to my priority early reader list.
Clan Witch: Found Shadows, releasing December 31st 2022Synopsis (subject to tweaking)
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August 10, 2022
The Making of Delevan House #3
Chapter 3 Question: Where does one begin when the spark of a novel involves obscure history, mythos, and an elevated degree of imagination to …
The Making of Delevan House #3
August 7, 2022
Expectant Miscarriage: Waiting for Averey
My first was in 2004, a spontaneous natural miscarriage.
My second was in 2013, a missed miscarriage that required medical management.
My subsequent pregnancy ended with extreme preterm natural birth in 2014.
Number four was in 2016, another preterm birth, delivered by emergency caesarean.
2022, another missed miscarriage. I’m currently in the ‘limbo’ phase of knowing my baby is dead inside my womb. I am waiting for contractions and birth, referred to medically ...
August 3, 2022
The Making of Delevan House
Chapter 2 Ruthann Zooms from her stunning southern gothic home set within her Texas Ranch, surrounded by all manner of beautiful beasts and me (…
The Making of Delevan House
One for Sorrow
One for Sorrow © Natasha SinclairI’ve been seeing them for months in fours
Fanned feathers
Celestial blues, flanked with obsidian rainbows—
Four for a boy.
Three days ago,
Three didn’t show.
One flew solo—
One for sorrow.
Yesterday and today, the same—
One for sorrow.
Another silent death inside the chalice of life.
Mother of death—another passes beatless.
At least he will, soon.
It could be hours, days, weeks away.
One for sorrow.
He has no clock...
July 29, 2022
The Making of Delevan House
Chapter 1 Delevan House Two passionate female authors, sharing a love of dark speculative fiction, and a wicked sense of humor, become virtual …
The Making of Delevan House
July 20, 2022
Mid Year Update
Talk about curveball 2022! Another year of madness! There were plans. Big beautiful plans! And while those plans still exist, there has been movement because of those unexpected transitions life has her way of throwing. Personally, I’ve had some family upsets which I predominantly have to deal with and process alone (my partner, of course, has supported as much as one can). I’ve angered, been frustrated, hurt, grieved, run myself in circles, hurt some more, and accepted. Because sometimes th...
July 8, 2022
Interview with a Poet
1: When did you first start writing?
At first, I didn’t know that inventing short songs and humming them in the fields of wheat and barley while stumbling behind my parents was what would, later on, develop into a form of writing. Writing has already been there in such funny songs I used to create out of the blue and sing in Tunisian spoken language (i.e. an amalgam of Arabic, French, and Barbarian) at the age of ten. I remember myself once ...
June 24, 2022
AI & Digital Art – Opinion Post
It all kicked off on social media for a 24-hour period, which turned into outright bullying. It was a witch hunt, and the bandwagon was a disgusting display of how quickly negativity spirals in the digital age. There’s been a lot of it lately. Being new to the Twitter platform, it seems like a source for much of that ‘hate’ energy. Perhaps I’ve just not been exposed to that much (thankfully)! Anyway, I posted my tuppence worth on Facebook and thought I’d share here since it’s topical within book...
June 21, 2022
Summer Solstice Note
Here in the village, the longest day of light is obscured by dense, low-hanging clouds. Heat permeates air molecules, caressing the skin and teasing water just out of reach.
The rain may come, or she may not. Either way, flames will lick skyward.
Flames will dance with padding feet, and shadows and ash will remark spiritual and physical boundaries on Litha.
Steeped in traditions around the globe, the essence of the Sabbat (when the sun is further from the equator) and her rituals ar...
