[caption id="attachment_2537" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Photo by OakleyOriginals"][/caption] Lately I’ve been getting a slew of crafting books and proposals. Slated for publication in 2011, I’m currently working on books on crafting your own magical candles (winter release), your own wands (summer release), and lots of other fun projects for magical home décor and beauty (fall release). Plus, there are more proposals on their way for 2012…a book on making your own ritual tools, a book on making your own incense, and more. It looks like we’ll have a very nice selection of new magical crafting books for you in the upcoming years. (I’ll keep you posted as they come

This may be one of my shortest blog posts ever, but bear with me. I realized today while proofing some copy on "celebrating the sabbats" that I am more used to seeing the word sabbat capitalized - as in, "celebrating the Sabbats." I asked one of our trusted Llewellyn editors what she thought, and she pointed out that the word holiday is never capitalized, but the names of the holidays are. (Or in this case, Beltane, Samhain, Lughnasadh, and so on.) Also it often happens that the word sabbat and the name of the sabbat appear side-by-side, making it look a little silly to capitalize both - "as we approach the Sabbat Beltane," for example. What do you think? Do you want to see Sabbat

Man, do I love working in the warehouse! This summer when orders for our calendars and datebooks were coming in fast and furious, our warehouse manager Chuck asked the rest of the Llewellyn staff if any of us wanted to be trained in to pitch in a few days to deal with the rush. Of course I jumped at the chance, as did several others, because I love learning how all the nuts and bolts of this company come together. (And because Chuck thanked us with ice cream bars.) So one nice summer day, a group of about seven or eight of us left our quiet cubicles and computer monitors for the bustling activity of the warehouse. Luckily we’re all in the same building, unlike Llewellyn’s previous

So, I'm reading Ann Moura's amazing new manuscript. Yes, it's been a while since this Green Witch author wrote a new book for us, but it's turned out to have been well worth the wait. This is the most serious book on all types of Esbat magick that I've read since working here. (And sorry, you probably won't see it on shelves until Fall 2010!) However, it's brought up a concern of mine, which we'll talk about at the Vision meeting next week. Basically there are several lengthy rituals included in the first half of the book - one for the waxing crescent moon, one for the full moon, for the new moon, for the waning crescent, the Blue moon, the Sidhe moon, the lunar eclipse and the solar