Finding Alma
Alma has ALWAYS been one of my favorite characters. Honestly, I’ve been carrying her around with me for years. Whenever I need grounded, I find myself in her kitchen, her gnarled fingers grasping a coffee cup, her gravely voice pulling my head out of my butt.
LOL!
I love Alma.
When I decided to give Paige to a family of witches and then when I decided I was going to break Paige, I knew I needed to give her Alma.
Alma doesn’t take crap from ANYone! She’s the biggest, baddest witch that ever grew a garden and drew the eye of a gnewt. LOL! She grew up as a witch out of the closet during a time when being a witch was a really, really bad thing; when people thought it was perfectly okay to “save a soul”, and didn’t think twice about going too far.
Into adulthood, lots of doors were closed to her. She’d go into a grocery store, and everyone would leave. Granted, shopping without the crowds on Christmas Eve is a great thing when you’ve forgotten the butter, but when they’re hiding their children behind them and whispering about how you’re the whore of the devil, even having the ability to clear the crowds wasn’t very helpful.
Her mother killed herself when Alma was about ten, leaving her to be raised by her dad. He was fantastic, well-grounded, a real champ. He just wasn’t a great cook. I think that’s the reason she became Goddess of the Kitchen – both cooking and baking. I’m not kidding when I say that when I attempt something new in the kitchen, she’s my Google.
Learning magick without her mother was both good and bad. Unfortunately, she messed up a few times and sometimes, things went really, really, really bad. That’s how she developed so much character. She’s the one who said that you don’t gain character by doing great things. You get it by fucking it all up.
Yeah. *chuckle* She’s awesome. I can’t wait for you to meet her. And you can do so in the first book of the Demon Talker Novels, Demons Are Jackasses available for pre-order….now.
LOL!
I love Alma.
When I decided to give Paige to a family of witches and then when I decided I was going to break Paige, I knew I needed to give her Alma.
Alma doesn’t take crap from ANYone! She’s the biggest, baddest witch that ever grew a garden and drew the eye of a gnewt. LOL! She grew up as a witch out of the closet during a time when being a witch was a really, really bad thing; when people thought it was perfectly okay to “save a soul”, and didn’t think twice about going too far.
Into adulthood, lots of doors were closed to her. She’d go into a grocery store, and everyone would leave. Granted, shopping without the crowds on Christmas Eve is a great thing when you’ve forgotten the butter, but when they’re hiding their children behind them and whispering about how you’re the whore of the devil, even having the ability to clear the crowds wasn’t very helpful.
Her mother killed herself when Alma was about ten, leaving her to be raised by her dad. He was fantastic, well-grounded, a real champ. He just wasn’t a great cook. I think that’s the reason she became Goddess of the Kitchen – both cooking and baking. I’m not kidding when I say that when I attempt something new in the kitchen, she’s my Google.
Learning magick without her mother was both good and bad. Unfortunately, she messed up a few times and sometimes, things went really, really, really bad. That’s how she developed so much character. She’s the one who said that you don’t gain character by doing great things. You get it by fucking it all up.
Yeah. *chuckle* She’s awesome. I can’t wait for you to meet her. And you can do so in the first book of the Demon Talker Novels, Demons Are Jackasses available for pre-order….now.
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