Long before I wrote a single word of fiction, I was hard at work as a psychologist. Because it sang to me, I gravitated toward Jungian analysis. Humans have common experiences accessed through the dreamscape. It’s why we have Deja Vu experiences where we are certain we’ve been a certain place before. Or met a person who should be new to us. Or a dragon. In my writer’s heart, I would love to be hanging out in a turret or a huge, old tree watching dragons bugle and swoop and dive. Lovely colors merging and scales clanking as they engage …
My BFF Bigfoot!
What is a best friend? To me, it’s someone with whom you share your deepest secrets. Someone who has your back no matter what. Like when you wore gauchos to a housewarming party and no one would make eye contact with you except for your BFF. Who, I might add, complimented your heinous fashion faux pas multiple times. Or the time you ate so many hot wings and drank soooo many Mike’s Hard Lemonades that you were able to belch half of the alphabet making everyone leave the table… except for your BFF. In fact, he ripped a belch in …
Witchy Chicks: Meet Ann Gimpel and Polly Holmes
Hello, and let’s give a big witching season welcome to Witchy Chicks Ann Gimpel and Polly Holmes! Ann Gimpel Ann Gimpel is a USA Today bestselling author. She’s also a mountaineer and vagabond at heart. She’s stood on top of some really gnarly peaks, and discovered that Zen mindfulness comes in very useful when the only other option is screaming your lungs out or curling into a fetal position because you’re too scared to do anything else. What three words best describe you? Determined. Loyal. Protective. Why did you decide to write witchy fiction? Witches have always fascinated me. Their …
Welcome to the Witchy Chicks
Long, long ago, in the year 2005, I (Yasmine) wanted to start a group blog. So with a dear friend, Linda Wisdom joining in, we founded the Witchy Chicks. We lasted five years, with anywhere from 5-9 members at any given time. We had a blast forming our community, and we built a little niche for us on the internet. Five years and hundreds of posts later, we realized it was time to let go. So the Witchy Chicks went silent, and we all moved on to other things. Not long ago, I decided I wanted to reform the Witchy …