About Me
I've held pagan leanings since my middle teens, starting with Wicca and developing my own ecclectic witchy system. I'm a writer, published in erotic romance fiction as well as in metaphysical nonfiction. Some of my work has appeared in PagaNet News, Circle, SageWoman, NewWitch, and others. I'm hoping to rekindle the metaphysical writing. I also am a reiki II practitioner and read tarot cards.
Music
Pretty eclectic from Godsmack, NIN to Enya and Clannad. Love world fusion, celtic, and new age.
Movies
300, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Spaceballs, LOTR Trilogy, just to name a few, but again, very eclectic.
TV
not a lot. Love documentaries, public televion, Dr. Who, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy/Angel, B5, Farscape.
Books
science fiction, fantasy, romance, lots of non-fiction on everything from spirituality, environmentalism, nature, lots.
Hobbies
reading, writing, nature, gardening, hiking, spending time with my furchildren,
Writers of fiction and non-fiction based in or about alternative spiritualities now have a new opportunity to publish their work. Jupiter Gardens Press, a division of Jupiter Gardens, is now open for submissions. Initial offerings will be sold through the company's website, http://www.jupitergardens.com/, as electronic books, and the company plans to expand into print within the first eighteen to twenty-four months. Full writer's guidelines can be found at http://www.jupitergardens.com/?page_id=86.
Jupiter Gardens is a royalty paying, non-vanity, non-subsidy publisher. Each book will receive careful editing, a professional cover art, and authors receive promotional support.
To submit work for consideration, please send a synopsis or table of contents, the first three chapters, a detailed marketing plan (form can be found on the website), and a cover letter to publisher@jupitergardens.com. Jupiter Gardens Press accepts stories from 10,000 to 100,000 words.
Last weekend I was at ICON, a science fiction convention held in the Iowa City area. (Http://www.mindbridge.org/icon/ ). Some wouldn't think that incense and sf fans go together. Or sf fans and herbal soaps. But, I got to say, I just love being a dealer at various conventions and hope to do at least four next year, maybe more!
There's nothing quite like having the one thing that someone wants. A young gamer came to me asking if I'd heard of a temple incense that was called Shiva. Not only had I heard of it, but I had some on hand and proceeded to make a sale. Apparently he'd looked all over for it and couldn't find it.
I discussed incense scents, why people like "food smells" or don't like "food smells". I caught up with old friends and made several new ones. And I did it all from the "smelly" table in the dealer's room. You see, everyone comes to the dealer's room at a convention. Sit there long enough and you'll see the guests of honor. You'll talk to the convention committee, the fans, the authors and the artists. You will talk to everyone.
It was a weekend away in a beautiful hotel where I could do what I love: write, talk to people, and share my love of incense with others. A very good weekend.
A new podcast has been posted featuring an interview with Iggy's Iguana Rescue. There's a discussion of the Queen of Cups tarot card and how she'll affect the upcoming holiday celebrations. And as always you'll find news, coupons, a reiki minute, and lots more.
Jupiter Gardens has published our October newsletter. If you haven't subscribed (either through our opt-in email system or choosing the newsletter when you've placed an order) please visit http://www.jupitergardens.com/newsletter.htm for our article on The Patient Goddess, our first article in the My Goddess Body series, our October discount coupon, the latest news, plus plenty more information!