Steampunk romance author (and writing friend) Anne Renwick joined me to talk about Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, how it relates to her work in progress, and what we did and didn't remember about this book. We also touch on Holmes as a character, the occult and folklore elements of the book, and a tangent on indie book marketing in 2026.

Anne's website has info on where to find her on socials, how to purchase her books (and what order to read them in), and all things hard science steampunk romance.

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Death in the Dry River, a crime novella set in 1930s colonial Trinidad, by Lisa Allen-Agostini, the award-winning books Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow and Conjuring the Commonplace by Laine Fuller & Cory Thomas Hutcheson are all available from 1000Volt Press or to order wherever you buy books.

You can pre-order A Witch's Book of Days (September 2026) from Crossed Crow Books and other booksellers now. My book, Verona Green, is available in all the usual places. Autographed copies are also available from 1000Volt Press.

Life has intervened, there will not be an episode of WitchLit Podcast this month.

Join us next month as we read Hound of the Baskervilles with Anne Renwick

Thumper Forge, author of the newly released The Chaos Apple, joined me to talk about this romp of a novel by Raymond Buckland, better known for his books on witchcraft and Wicca. We cover a lot of ground including representation of witchcraft, new-paganism, and other esoteric traditions in 1990s fiction; how hard one can suspend one's disbelief; and how Discordianism and Chaos magic appear in the oddest places.

The Chaos Apple is available from Llewellyn and all fine booksellers. You can find out more about Thumper's work and where they will be appearing in the coming year and anything else they wish publicly known from their website.

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Transcripts of all episodes are available at witchlitpod.com.

Support WitchLit by using our affiliate link to purchase books from Bookshop.org or buy us a coffee on Ko-fi. Please follow us on BlueSky for episode updates.

You can also support WitchLit by purchasing books published by 1000Volt Press. Our latest release is Pagan Roots: Reclaiming Concepts of the Sacred by Yvonne Aburrow available wherever you buy books.

Death in the Dry River, a crime novella set in 1930s colonial Trinidad, by Lisa Allen-Agostini is out now and available to order wherever you buy books or direct from 1000Volt Press.

The award-winning books Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow and Conjuring the Commonplace by Laine Fuller & Cory Thomas Hutcheson are both available from 1000Volt Press or to order wherever you buy books.

You can pre-order A Witch's Book of Days (September 2026) from Crossed Crow Books and other booksellers now. My book, Verona Green, is available in all the usual places. Autographed copies are also available from 1000Volt Press.

A note that the audio for this episode isn't the best it could be. We had a few internet connectivity issues and Julian, our editor, did his best with what I gave him.

Folkrist and author Mark Norman of The Folklore Podcast joined me this month to talk about reading and collecting folklore, publishing on niche topics (including pop-culture folklore), and what draws us to the darker stories of the past and present.

You can find out more about Mark's most recent book Hallowed Ground: The Folklore of Churches and Churchyards (Crossed Crow) and all of his many project including the podcast and his nonprofit, The Folklore Archives, on his website. Though Mark sells his books directly from his online shop in the UK, he advises US readers to purchase locally, unless of course you'd like it signed.

WitchLit listeners receive 15% off their purchases at La Panthére Studio with the code WITCHLIT.

Please support Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, and women-owned, local, independent bookstores and occult shops.

Transcripts of all episodes are available at witchlitpod.com.

Support WitchLit by using our affiliate link to purchase books from Bookshop.org or buy us a coffee on Ko-fi. Please follow us on BlueSky for episode updates.

You can also support WitchLit by purchasing books published by 1000Volt Press. Our latest release is Pagan Roots: Reclaiming Concepts of the Sacred by Yvonne Aburrow available wherever you buy books. Death in the Dry River, a crime novella set in 1930s colonial Trinidad, by Lisa Allen-Agostini is out now and available to order wherever you buy books or direct from 1000Volt Press.

The award-winning books Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow and Conjuring the Commonplace by Laine Fuller & Cory Thomas Hutcheson are both available from 1000Volt Press or to order wherever you buy books.

My book, Verona Green, is available in all the usual places. Autographed copies are also available from 1000Volt Press.

Judika Illes joined me this week to discuss the classic Russian novel The Master and Margarita in all its weird and wonderful glory. We also covered growing up in a house of books that were never off limits, publishing, divination, what she's up to these days and what's on the horizon.

You can find all of her books, decks, and other writing on her website.

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Please support Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, and women-owned, local, independent bookstores and occult shops.

Transcripts of all episodes are available at witchlitpod.com.

Support WitchLit by using our affiliate link to purchase books from Bookshop.org or buy us a coffee on Ko-fi. Please follow us on BlueSky for episode updates.

You can also support WitchLit by purchasing books published by 1000Volt Press. Our latest release is Pagan Roots: Reclaiming Concepts of the Sacred by Yvonne Aburrow available wherever you buy books.

Death in the Dry River, a crime novella set in 1930s colonial Trinidad, by Lisa Allen-Agostini is out now and available to order wherever you buy books or direct from 1000Volt Press.

The award-winning books Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow and Conjuring the Commonplace by Laine Fuller & Cory Thomas Hutcheson are both available from 1000Volt Press or to order wherever you buy books.

My book, Verona Green, is available in all the usual places. Autographed copies are also available from 1000Volt Press.

This month author and professional tarot reader Cassandra Snow joins me to discuss Rachel Pollack's classic Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. While it's been called the tarot bible, it does have some detractors. Cassandra and I discuss the impact the book and Pollack has had on tarot reading and practice—both for Cassandra and in general, the breadth of knowledge Pollack brings to the text, and her brilliance as a writer. We also address a few of those criticisms.

You can pick up a copy of Tarot in Other Words, a book of essays by queer tarot readers, authors and deck creators edited by Cassandra, wherever you buy books. You can learn more about Cassandra's other work, book a tarot reading, and get their social media details from their website.

Next month I'll be joined by author and editor Judika Illes to discuss the Soviet Era samizdat classic The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgacov. Originally published as a complete book in Paris in 1967 after being passed around as an underground manuscript for nearly 30 years, the book has been translated into multiple languages. If you are reading along, it is available in English as a paperback and in digital and audiobook formats. My library had all three available.

WitchLit listeners receive 15% off their purchases at La Panthére Studio with the code WITCHLIT.

Please support Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, and women-owned, local, independent bookstores and occult shops.

Transcripts of all episodes are available at witchlitpod.com. You can follow us on BlueSky @witchlitpod.bsky.social.

Support WitchLit by using our affiliate link to purchase books from Bookshop.org or buy us a coffee on Ko-fi. Please follow us on BlueSky for episode updates.

You can also support WitchLit by purchasing books published by 1000Volt Press. Our latest release is Pagan Roots: Reclaiming Concepts of the Sacred by Yvonne Aburrow available wherever you buy books.

Death in the Dry River, a crime novella set in 1930s colonial Trinidad, by Lisa Allen-Agostini is out now and available to order wherever you buy books or direct from 1000Volt Press.

The award-winning books Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow and Conjuring the Commonplace by Laine Fuller & Cory Thomas Hutcheson are both available from 1000Volt Press or to order wherever you buy books.

My book, Verona Green, is available in all the usual places. Autographed copies are also available from 1000Volt Press.

This month romance author Katta Kis joined me to chat about the controversial classic, The Satanic Witch, originally published as The Compleat Witch or What to do When Virtue Fails. I'm not sure what either of us really expected but I think we both left feeling like we'd learned more about Anton LaVey's personal peccadilloes that we did about Satanism. Katta and I discuss the sexism, context, and LaVey's general obsession with what now seems like very traditional ideas of what it means to be a woman.

You can pick up a copy of Katta's latest book Love at the Rock Show wherever you buy books and find links to social media, events, etc on her website.

Next month, Cassandra Snow will be joining me to discuss Rachel Pollack's Seventy-eight Degrees of Wisdom. The book has been in print since it was first released in two parts in 1980, so there are second hand copies galore as well as a newish release from Weiser with a new preface by Pollack. Digital and audiobook versions are also available, so check your local library too.

WitchLit listeners receive 15% off their purchases at La Panthére Studio with the code WITCHLIT.

Please support Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, and women-owned, local, independent bookstores and occult shops.

Transcripts of all episodes are available at witchlitpod.com. You can follow us on BlueSky @witchlitpod.bsky.social.

Support WitchLit by using our affiliate link to purchase books from Bookshop.org or buy us a coffee on Ko-fi. Please follow us on BlueSky for episode updates.

You can also support WitchLit by purchasing books published by 1000Volt Press. Our latest release is Pagan Roots: Reclaiming Concepts of the Sacred by Yvonne Aburrow available wherever you buy books.

Death in the Dry River, a crime novella set in 1930s colonial Trinidad, by Lisa Allen-Agostini is out now and available to order wherever you buy books or direct from 1000Volt Press.

The award-winning books Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow and Conjuring the Commonplace by Laine Fuller & Cory Thomas Hutcheson are both available from 1000Volt Press or to order wherever you buy books.

My book, Verona Green, is available in all the usual places. Autographed copies are also available from 1000Volt Press.

This month, author and tarot deck creator Charles Harrington joined me to discuss The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley. There's a lot of ground to cover with a book this expansive, but we hit on what fiction gets right and wrong about reading the future, thoughts on identity and persona, and lots and lots of asides on tarot and the history of the occult.

Charles's latest book is Tarot and Oracle Card Reading for Dummies and is available wherever books are sold. He has developed and written guide books for several tarot and oracle decks including the The Odyssey Oracle, The Tarot of the Vampires, The Murder of Crows Tarot, available at bookstores and fine occult shops everywhere.

Next month, Katta Kis (Love in the Liner Notes, Love at the Rock Show) will be joining me to talk about Anton LaVey's 1971 book The Compleat Witch, republished as The Satanic Witch in 1988. The original is a rare book collectible with a price tag to match, but the reprint is widely available used and as an ebook.

WitchLit listeners receive 15% off their purchases at La Panthére Studio with the code WITCHLIT.

Please support Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, and women-owned, local, independent bookstores and occult shops.

Transcripts of all episodes are available at witchlitpod.com. You can follow us on BlueSky @witchlitpod.bsky.social.

Support WitchLit by using our affiliate link to purchase books from Bookshop.org or buy us a coffee on Ko-fi. Please follow us on BlueSky for episode updates.

You can also support WitchLit by purchasing books published by 1000Volt Press. Our latest release is Pagan Roots: Reclaiming Concepts of the Sacred by Yvonne Aburrow available wherever you buy books.

Death in the Dry River, a crime novella set in 1930s colonial Trinidad, by Lisa Allen-Agostini is out now and available to order wherever you buy books or direct from 1000Volt Press.

The award-winning books Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow and Conjuring the Commonplace by Laine Fuller & Cory Thomas Hutcheson are both available from 1000Volt Press or to order wherever you buy books.

My book, Verona Green, is available in all the usual places. Autographed copies are also available from 1000Volt Press.

This month Aidan Wachter joins me to talk about Charles Godfrey Leland’s 1899 book Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches. We talk about how the book has influenced modern witchcraft, our own practices, and what we can take away from Aradia and what’s best left in the past.

You can find Aidan’s books most places that you purchase books and you can find out more about his work on his website. You can also follow him on Bluesky @aidanwachter,bsky.social.

In July, Charles Harrington will be joining me to discuss The Oracle Glass (1992) by Judith Merkle Riley. The book is available as an ebook and audiobook and widely available. My local library had the ebook to borrow but I found the audiobook especially helpful with keeping track of all the French names.

Please support Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, and women-owned, local, independent bookstores and occult shops.

Transcripts of all episodes are available at witchlitpod.com. You can follow us on BlueSky @witchlitpod.bsky.social.

Support WitchLit by purchasing books using our affiliate link to purchase books from Bookshop.org or buy us a coffee on Ko-fi. Please follow us on BlueSky for episode updates.

You can also support WitchLit by purchasing books published by 1000Volt Press. Our latest release is Pagan Roots: Reclaiming Concepts of the Sacred by Yvonne Aburrow available wherever you buy books.

Death in the Dry River, a crime novella set in 1930s colonial Trinidad, by Lisa Allen-Agostini is out now and available to order wherever you buy books or direct from 1000Volt Press.

The award-winning books Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow and Conjuring the Commonplace by Laine Fuller & Cory Thomas Hutcheson are both available from 1000Volt Press or to order wherever you buy books.

My book, Verona Green, is available in all the usual places. Autographed copies are also available from 1000Volt Press.

Author and sculptor Via Hedera joined my to discuss Touch Blue by Lillian Morrison. Morrison compiled nursery rhymes, chants and charms, and more than a few spells in this book for children. Via and I discuss how this book came into her life, the impact it's had on her work and practice, and what we learned from the book and about Lillian Morrison along the way.

You can read Via's excellent blog,  find out more about her work — including new articles in Llewellyn's datebook and calendar for 2025,  and find links to her various social media accounts on her website.

In June, Aidan Wachter is joining me to discuss Aradia: The Gospel of the Witches by Charles Godfrey Leland. Aradiawas published in 1899 and is in the public domain. It is widely available online as an ebook and used and library copies are plentiful, if you'd like to read it before our discussion.

Please support Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, and women-owned, local, independent bookstores and occult shops.

Transcripts of all episodes are available at witchlitpod.com. You can follow us on BlueSky @witchlitpod.bsky.social.

Support WitchLit by using our affiliate link to purchase books from Bookshop.org or buy us a coffee on Ko-fi. Please follow us on BlueSky for episode updates.

You can also support WitchLit by purchasing books published by 1000Volt Press. Our latest release is Pagan Roots: Reclaiming Concepts of the Sacred by Yvonne Aburrow available wherever you buy books.

Death in the Dry River, a crime novella set in 1930s colonial Trinidad, by Lisa Allen-Agostini is out now and available to order wherever you buy books or direct from 1000Volt Press.

The award-winning books Changing Paths by Yvonne Aburrow and Conjuring the Commonplace by Laine Fuller & Cory Thomas Hutcheson are both available from 1000Volt Press or to order wherever you buy books.

My book, Verona Green, is available in all the usual places. Autographed copies are also available from 1000Volt Press.