Terrible Tuesday?

Well it's two T's anyway!

I've gotten myself into a jam, a nice one, but a jam none the less. We already knew my witch series was accepted. Well Storm is due for release in October as previously stated. Each subsequent book is to be released every three months. I have almost a whole year to write these books. That's not the jam. The problem is a new series that popped up and the heroes are ordering me to tell their stories. When sexy men in uniform give you an order what else can you do but obey it right? I think the decision I've come to for working around this is I'll finish the one that is in the works now so I have the rough version done and the basic story out. Then do Ember and get her rough done. Then the second of the military book, then...well you get the idea.

That way I get to break up the suspense with the comedy. And as edge of the seat these are projected to be, it will be nice to lift the mood, LOL

Ok time for Did You Know:

More Famous witches from history coming your way!

Witch of Endor was accredited with raising of the spirit of Samuel at the request of King Saul of Israel. In the bible it is said that Saul wished to find out whether he should fight the Philistine Army. Some say that the witch was a fake and that she threw her voice to sound like Samuel when in fact she lied about seeing god or angels, about incantations. Some believed that their may have been a spirit conjured but that it was more likely to have been the Devil but some believed that it was not the Devil as he would have been repelled by the word God or Jehovah and that the Devil would not have punished someone but would have encouraged them to do more evil.

Joan Wytte 1775-1813. Cornish woman also known by the name of the Fighting Fairy Woman of Bodmin. She was said to be clairvoyant and that people would seek her services as a seer, diviner and healer. She was known to visit a holy well where she tied clouties (a charm that is a strip of cloth taken from a sick person. Which would decay and was suppose to heal the person in a magical way. Still done today.) on the branches of trees.
Later on as a result of a tooth abscess she became very ill-tempered and would shout at people. She became involved in a large fight with people where she used her remarkable strength and bashed people and threw them across a room. She was arrested and sent to jail where she died as a result of the poor conditions. When she died her body was dissected and the skeleton was placed in a coffin, later on it was recovered and used as a joke in a seance which went wrong as it was alleged the lid of the coffin in which the skeletal remains was placed, flew open and started going around and assaulting the people taking part in the seance. After this the bones were to pass onto an antique dealer, and later on a founder of a Museum of Witchcraft. It was later said that while on display in the museum they started to experience poltergeist at which a witch was bought in to consult them of what to do and it was said that Wytte's spirit said that she wished to be laid in a proper burial. The empty coffin remains on display along with a plaque accounting her story.

Merlin (the merlin) Was not his actual name, but The Merlin was the highest of the Druid seers, a powerful magician who put Arthur on the throne and finally crumbled under the Christians, leaving only Morgan to remember and uphold Avalon. He taught the legendary Arthur all he could of kingcroft and all he knew of nature and the linking of all things. Arthur was wise, much because of The Merlin's teachings.

Aradia is familiar to most contemporary Pagans and Witches as the principal figure in Charles G. Leland's Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, first published in 1899. Leland presents her as the daughter of Diana, the goddess of the moon, by her brother Lucifer, "the god of the Sun and of the Moon, the god of Light" (Leland, 1899, 1998:1), who is sent to earth to teach the poor to resist the oppression of the wealthy classes through magic and witchcraft. Through Leland's work, Aradia's name and legend became central to the Witchcraft revival. Between 1950 and 1960, "Aradia" was probably the secret name of the Goddess in Gardnerian Craft (it has since been changed), and she has also given her name to numerous contemporary Witchcraft traditions (Clifton, 1998:73). *Authors note, the name Aradia for the witches realm in my series was not taken from this legend. I simply liked the name!

Opinions requested:

Ok dear readers I'd like your opinion. I have a bit of a southern accent but thats beside the point. In conversation I use slang, when I speak it isn't as if I were an English Professor, (which by the I am not) But in example "I ain't going" "He don't care" "Whaddaya think" "Ain't got" ""she's down to the store" "granny's up to the house" "If'n y'all wanna go" "I gots to go". (Please be aware I'm not a prime example of Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck dictionary either.) So what I'm asking is, when you hear people speak this way, do you automatically assume they are uneducated?

There are a couple of reason's I'm asking for opinions 1) In the not so distant past I sat in a doctor's office and began having a conversation with a lady. I gave her my business card and she looked surprised that I was a writer. After our conversation ended, she said she had to tell me that she was surprised that I was so intelligent and interesting because of the way I talk. I think she was saying she thought I was dumb! 2)I recently saw a news article about a class in one of the southern states where the students are taught how to crush their southern drawl and to rid themselves of their geological terminology; and in another place I saw a statistic where if two people equally educated, equally qualified apply for the same job, but one speaks with a southern drawl the other doesn't, the one without the accent gets the job, (unless of course you are in the lovely state of Georgia or any one of the other beautiful southern states where the accent isn't noticed, everyone has one.) so do you all (almost put y'all) have opinions? Do you think that the way a person speaks, their terminolgy, has an effect on how smart you beleive they are?

I hope to hear some comments soon!
Have a great day y'all, and Happy Reading!
Huggles,
Donica