Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

Midnight is just a few minutes away, and so it's time to launch a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism, and with certain exceptions noted below, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted.  If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.1 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. 

Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says.  And further:  I've decided that questions about getting goodies from spirits are also permanently off topic here. The point of occultism is to develop your own capacities, not to try to bully or wheedle other beings into doing things for you. I've discussed this in a post on my blog.

The image? I field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book above was my forty-third published book and my sixth published novel. When I finished the first of my tentacle novels, The Weird of Hali:  Innsmouth, I had no idea what I was going to do with the really rather odd para-Lovecraftian fictional cosmos that downloaded itself into my head in the process of writing that first novel. I wasn't even sure at first there would be a sequel, but I enjoyed that world too much to set it aside after just one book. That's when quiet, mousy little Jenny Parrish, a minor character from the first novel, started the process that turned her into one of the two main characters of the series.

I don't invent my characters. I meet them in the recesses of my imagination, and they constantly do things that surprise me. (I suspect this will sound like florid psychosis to anyone who isn't a writer of fiction, but it's the way many of us do things.) Jenny's the all time champion at surprising me in a story. She very quietly let me know that she should be the main character of the second book. When I began writing, I had no idea what her backstory was, I didn't know that she was asexual, I had no idea what her connection to the Lovecraftian cosmos was, and I certainly had no idea that she was only half human and would become the greatest sorceress of this age of the world; she took the lead, in much the same way that Trey sunna Gwen did in the writing of Star's Reach, except Trey was about as subtle as a ruinman's iron pry bar and liked to tip back a few beers and talk, while Jenny simply showed me which way to go and let me figure out the rest for myself.

The book duly got finished and saw print. I kept writing, though various confusions got in the way of publishing the others for a while; when they finally got into print, it was all in a lump. If you're interested in this volume of the series, you can get a copy here if you're in the US and here elsewhere.

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I've also had quite a few people over the years ask me where they should buy my books, and here's the answer. Bookshop.org is an alternative online bookstore that supports local bookstores and authors, which a certain gargantuan corporation doesn't, and I have a shop there, which you can check out here. Please consider patronizing it if you'd like to purchase any of my books online.

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With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed, and no more comments will be put through. See you next week!***

Comments

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Tunesmyth,

Please put me back on the prayer list. Sonkitten has taken up the deadly art of shoe-do. He left a size 15 sneaker in the middle of the floor and I fell over it while walking across the room watching the weather. I guess since it’s a size 15, I’m lucky I didn’t fall INTO it. Be that as it may, I now have a very swollen, stiff, and painful right knee. I’m the family driver, so I request that everyone pray it heals as quickly as God wills.

—Princess Cutekitten

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List

[tunesmyth]

No problem, Princess Cutekitten, I'll add it now; please check the wording I use on the site to make sure you agree. Would you like to update the prayer from May pertaining to your wisdom?