witches | witches
Nov.05.2012
The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho is a novel that seems to answer every difficult question it asks. On balance, I’d say that probably isn’t a good thing, but there’s no doubt that Coelho writes with a fast, fluent touch, and even when his characters expostulate rather than converse, the...
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Jun.27.2012
photo: First edition hardcover, from its Wikipedia page
Very well-researched and captivating book about witches and healing, past and present. The author wisely switches back and forth between the two, sometimes focusing more on one than the other, to create the feeling that...
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Jun.17.2012
Two centuries ago, the Temple Initiates made up the Order of the Dragon, named after the Great Dragon Shyrdasa that once lived within Dragon Park. Legend told that a group of knights once helped the Dragon and her unborn young. As a reward for their valor, the Dragon awarded them secret knowledge...
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Apr.09.2012
In 1968, when an accident kept me home from school for several weeks, I stumbled on a daytime soap called “Dark Shadows.” I wasn’t sure why it lured me in. Maybe it was the intro song that eerily played as the wild ocean waves crashed upon the rocks below a mysterious mansion. I was...
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Dec.31.2011
Welcome to my blog, Vera Jane. I’m so chuffed to have the opportunity to chat about your book Annabel Horton, Lost Witch of Salem. Where did the initial idea for the book come from?
I woke up one morning with the opening words to Annabel Horton on my lips. I ran to the computer to write them...
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Oct.22.2011
Walpurgisnacht
Witchallow publications http://ow.ly/75wzU
Halloween is the time of the year when the Sun escapes the Great Hole in the Sky, as created BEFORE GENESIS. The Holy Bible informs us about the creation of the GREAT...
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Oct.03.2011
It's that time of the year to pick out holiday cards for my grandchildren and a few friends. Ghosts, ghouls, goblins, and skeletons dance about in paper, felt, and other materials, delighting and filling me with the holiday spirit. Halloween cards are followed by Thanksgiving cards -- I like to be...
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Sep.14.2011
Before Twilight, before even the Harry Potter series (who had the character Sanguini..great name for a vampire, by the way), but well after, Bram Stoker's Dracula, there was the dark soap opera, Dark Shadows, with the vampire Barnabas Collins and the werewolf Quentin Collins and all manner of...
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Aug.01.2011
The next presidential election is getting near… and handsome, charismatic Senator Howard Stark wants to become president. There’s only one problem: He’s possessed by Sargatanas, a powerful demon who wants to unleash all evil on earth. To make things worse, Stark’s assistant happens to be a...
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Mar.09.2011
I have an interest in - and a soft spot for - witches. There are many reasons for this, being an author who oft delves into the supernatural - though my only 'witch' character was a warlock. And I have known some ladies who claimed more than just their bewitching ways. However, I do take an added...
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