Episode 287 – Vulnerability in Writing, Performance Art, and Tarot Readings with Liz Worth

Mark interviews Liz Worth, a professional tarot reader, a poet and author.

Prior to the interview, Mark shares a brief personal update and a word about this episode’s sponsor.

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In their chat, Mark and Liz talk about:

The many things that Liz “slings”Satisfying that craving Liz and her husband have to be surrounded by “vintage things” via owning an antique shopThe importance of helping take something inherited off someone’s hands in a meaningful way and to someone that will find use in itHow Tarot, the occult, and writing have always been a part of Liz’s life, and her mother’s influence in this areaGrowing up going to psychic fairs, learning astrology and card readingBeing draw to punk and goth culture in the 90s in high schoolMaking her own goth zine (Last Breath Escapes), photocopying it, and making it available through a local record storeDoing something similar for her poetryHow zines were a precursor to the niche market ability of eBook digital publishing nowadaysThe first book projects Liz worked onHow “Punk” is an entire ecosystem of creativity and not just a style of music and dressLiz’s work not only doing Tarot readings but teaching others how to do a Tarot readingThe things Liz would do during her performance poetry that she would never do in other professional aspects of her lifeHow, logically, Tarot is a thing that shouldn’t workThe vulnerability and expectations that a person has going into a Tarot readingHow you’re always going out on a limb when you’re interpreting and giving a Tarot readingLooking for narratives and story in the images and how do things make senseSome of the intangible things about Tarot that are difficult to explainThings that Hollywood, Television, and writers often get wrong about Tarot readingsThe importance of running with something in a creative way rather than feeling like everything had to be so “tamped down”Liz’s latest vampire novel, The Mouth is a CovenAnd more…

After the interview, Mark reflects on that importance of letting one’s creative license work its magic.

Links of Interest:

Liz Worth’s Author WebsiteLiz on InstagramLiz’s BooksLiz Worth’s Tarot WebsiteEpisodes with Jeff Elkins, The Dialogue DoctorBe a guest on the Stark Reflections PodcastSuperstars Writing Seminars (Save $100 with code: STARKSSWS2023Findaway VoicesBuy Mark a CoffeePatreon for Stark ReflectionsBest Book Ever PodcastLovers Moon PodcastThe Relaxed AuthorBuy eBook DirectBuy Audiobook DirectPublishing Pitfalls for AuthorsAn Author’s Guide to Working with Libraries & BookstoresWide for the WinMark’s Canadian Werewolf BooksThis Time Around (Short Story)A Canadian Werewolf in New YorkStowe Away (Novella)Fear and Longing in Los AngelesFright Nights, Big CityLover’s MoonHex and the CityThe Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Liz Worth is the author of eight books. Her newest novel is called The Mouth is a Coven, published through Manta Press. She has been nominated twice for the ReLit Award for Poetry, and her writing has also appeared in FLARE Magazine, Chatelaine, and the Globe and Mail. She works as a professional tarot reader by day.

The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0