Just thought I’d share: I participated in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) for the first time last November and wrote an urban fantasy novel. After a few friends read it and encouraged me to publish it I decided to go ahead and go for it. I’d been editing and revising it but, in attempting to get one of the NaNo prizes – a free hardcover – I appear to have just accidentally published my novel on Lulu. Ummm. Oops? LOL So here it is – my first ever novel http://www.lulu.com/shop/morgan-daimler/murder-between-the-worlds/paperback/product-21381405.html

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I drink the cup he offers
the horn-rim cold against my lips,

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There are many different types of fairy animals, both the more intelligent beings like the puka who can take animal form and animals that are part of fairy. One of the more interesting ones is the fairy hound, or cu sidhe (pronounced koo shee).

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The Seal Folk, called Roan, Roane or Rón in Ireland and Selkies or Silkies in Scotland. Stories of these faeries originate on the coasts of Ireland and Scotland and persist today in these areas, as well as in any coastal areas where seals can be found. As ocean faeries, they are primarily associated with the sea and beaches, and their stories often originate with fisherman and people whose livelihood is tied to the ocean. Roan are creatures of the Between, existing between land and sea, between human and seal form.

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Today I’m linking to my blog over on Hartford FAV’s http://hartfordfavs.com/2013/12/22/believing-santa-pagans-perspective/ where I discuss Santa Claus in today’s(…)

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The winter solstice is nearly upon us again, and this year many people in the Celtic pagan groups I belong to are asking how to celebrate this holiday in an Irish pagan way. This certainly presents some challenges as the modern holiday has(…)

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Having blogged about the daoine sidhe and alfar we’re on to the third part, the spirits of the land. This is an important one for me to discuss because I find a most people conflate land spirits with Otherworldly beings; most popular authors I know(…)

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Mine Faeries     This type of faery can be found all over Europe as well as in countries settled by European peoples, such as the United States. Called Coblynau in Wales, Kobolds(…)

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I’ve mentioned before that the main focus of my practice are the spirits of the Otherworld and I honor both an Irish and Norse/Germanic(…)

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In my last blog I looked at the Norse concepts of the alfar and the related English elves and Icelandic huldufolk; in today’s blog we are going to look at the Irish daoine sidhe, the people of the fairy hills. This is a very complex subject and(…)

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