September 2022 Reading

September is that month between summer and autumn, hung in suspension between the swelter and cool release. Or that was my understanding of fall. On California time, autumn really seems to come when the rains begin. I’m told this happens in October. I’m...
S2 E13 – Dr. Alexander Cummins

S2 E13 – Dr. Alexander Cummins

Dr. Cummins and I talk about the academic and the practical in both writing and magic and how to make the academic practical. If you ever wondered what academics on either side of the pond think about magic, you can get an inside scoop here.  Show notes:  You can...
S2 E12 – Madame Pamita

S2 E12 – Madame Pamita

Here’s what happens when you put two GenX witches on a podcast with no rules … old MTV jokes aside, talking both writing shop and podcast shop with Madame Pamita was a treat. Baba Yaga’s Book of Magic was a labor or love and devotion which included learning a new...
S2 E11 – Margaret Killjoy

S2 E11 – Margaret Killjoy

Margaret and I chat about her writing, and her podcasting, and her music, and anarchism, but mostly about writing and her excellent book A Country of Ghosts and the Danielle Caine series of novellas. There may have been fangirling. Margaret’s work is available...

August 2022 Reading

August. In the South it is dog days and long afternoons of swelter until the sky cracks open too wet to hold in the moisture anymore. In California it seems to be the season of low morning haze that never means rain. It’s mid-day cloudless skies and a breeze...