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Diary of a Witchcraft Shop Vols I and 2

When we started this blog, a number of people kept asking me when we were going to bring out the Diary of a Witchcraft Shop as a book.

Well, now we have!

It's going to be in e-format, at least initially. We're launching Volume 1 at Samhain, and Volume 2 at Beltane. The first volume covers the first couple of years of the shop when I came on board and features all the things you've come to know and love from the blogs - magic and mayhem, spirits and standing stones, cats and dogs, people who kno...

Act of dog

I haven't really posted much about the animals of late - we've now had Cass for almost a year, and Lily for nearly 18 months. Cass has proved to be an extremely placid beast: she likes to sleep, particularly on the bed, and for something that is roughly the size of a rhino she manages to sneak onto the bed quite a lot, usually in the middle of the night. And collapses, saying 'ooof!'
Apart from this, and a regrettable incursion into an ancient takeaway last week, she is one of the most peaceab...

Morrigan books...

....are actually on this site:

http://www.morriganbooks.com/

Apologies for posting the link to Stephanie's site twice. This is the problem of having almost no light in the living room at the moment.

Chen moves house

I have signed up the remaining two Chen novels, IRON KHAN and MORNINGSTAR, with Morrigan Books - the Phantom Queen continues to watch out for me, it seems. You can find details here:

http://www.shadowscapes.com/

The covers will be by artist Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, whose work blows me away. It has been an honour to have my books illustrated by Jon Foster, with whom I have subsequently been in touch, and the honour continues with Stephanie's agreement to do the covers. You can find her beautiful w...

Creative Writing Tutoring - repost

As an addition to this - I've now been running this on a personal basis for over 6 months, with quite a few clients, and I would just like to say how impressed I've been by the range of talent out there. I've now finished some of the one-off appraisals and am sending several people in the direction of my own agent, because I think they're that good. Really, go you!

As some of you will know, I am now offering manuscript appraisal services. I will only be dealing with SF, Fantasy and Horror, or ...

SHORT STORY SALE - REPOST

THERE ARE A FEW SUBS LEFT!

You will find a PayPal button at the end of this post. I would like to thank those of you who have already signed up for your support - it is greatly appreciated, and it's also been great to hear from you.

Short story sale - limited edition
I'm trying a new approach this year: directly marketing a small quantity of limited edition short fiction online. I'll be writing a series of 4 short stories (one per quarter) set in one of 3 worlds. So that's 3 new short stories p...

Milford Facebook page

As in, we now have one:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=151486814866250&ref=mf

Avalonian Aeon

Paul Weston has produced a rare and interesting work – a book about a personal spiritual journey that is erudite, entertaining, intelligent and authentic. It's also very funny. Usually, spiritual autobiographies tend to be somewhat unconvincing and you often get the impression that they are heavily edited and written to impress the reader rather than to give an accurate account of someone's history with the esoteric.

Weston, however, doesn't try to impress. This is the story of a long relatio...

Basic Practical Magic

We will be holding our first weekend workshop for the Basic Practical Magic course on 14th/15th August, in Glastonbury (running from 10 a.m to 4 p.m Sat/Sun). This will be focusing on practical aspects (ritual, herblore, making tools, meditation techniques, making shrines/altars, working with deity (trance mediumship) and any other aspects that you might like to concentrate on!)

The cost will be £160 for the weekend, including lunch on both days. We can arrange accommodation for you if necessa...

"big leeks will inspire you"

Admittedly this will mean more if you've actually been to Newport....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNfbX6uvA6s