Thanks so much for hosting me in Love Bites and Silk Ties to celebrate the relaunch of the Lakeland Witches trilogy. It’s a pleasure to be here to talk about sex and romance and magic.
Since the kind of magic practiced by the witches in the Lakeland Witches Trilogy is sex magic, I was asked once if I believed that sex magic is real. My answer was something along the lines that I believe sex is the only kind of magic, and certainly the only kind of magic we all have access to and we all have a knack for. But the question itself got me thinking.
We authors know that writing always exposes us, though it’s sometimes more obvious than other times. As I thought about the question, ‘do you believe that sex magic is real?,’ I realized that my entry into the realm of paranormal writing and the choices I’d made in what I wrote is very much my Psyche doing the full Monte. I’ve written lots of blog posts about the magic of sex, about what happens when we cross that final barrier and get inside the skin of another person, about what happens when we make ourselves vulnerable. Though it certainly wasn’t a conscious part of my decision, choosing to make the witches of the Elemental Coven practitioners of sex magic speaks very powerfully of my own psyche, my attitude toward writing and what I believe is important.
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