Posted on March 4th, 2010
Filed under Commentary |
Two posts at Amazon’s Omnivoracious, offering some background on the CODEX books.
On the Nature of Magick
“Like I said, the definition is a bit slippery, and it might be a bit much to attribute to the writing of a pulpy occult noir book the grandiose intent of creating magick, but that’s part of what inspired the Codex of Souls. Not so much making magick, but rediscovering the possibility of it. Instead of holding such strangeness at arm’s length and pretending that we’re an entirely rational species, I wanted to embrace our esoteric history.”
On the Nature of Monsters
“The little mantra I hummed to myself while I was writing was: ‘Men and Mantras/Shotguns and Sigils.’ I was going to write an urban fantasy book without vampires, lycanthropes, zombies, angels, or demons.”
Posted on February 20th, 2010
Filed under Heartland |
Order: Amazon | B & N | Powell’s
The Pitch:
Markham returns to Paris where he lost his love, and nearly his life. The ancient order of manipulative magicians that once cast him out is now in turmoil . . . a turmoil made all the greater by the swaths of destruction that [...]
Posted on January 22nd, 2010
Filed under Heartland |
Aleister Crowley on The Fool:
“Know Aught!
All ways are lawful to innocence.
Pure folly is the key to initiation.
Silence breaks into rapture.
Be neither man nor woman, but both in one.
Be silent, babe in the egg of blue, that thou
Mayest grow to bear the lance and the graal!
Wander alone, and sing! In the King’s Palace
His daugther awaits thee.”
I [...]
Posted on January 12th, 2010
Filed under Heartland |
01. TALBOT & DERU – “Transmutation 3″ [Genus]
02. IMMINENT – “Lorsc” [Cask Strength]
03. STAR OF ASH – “Crossing Over” [The Thread]
04. TONIKOM – “Of Those Great Walls” [The Sniper's Veil]
05. CDATAKILL – “Falling From The Sky” [Passage]
06. BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD – [...]
Posted on January 2nd, 2010
Filed under Heartland |
Posted on November 13th, 2009
Filed under Interviews |
Jessica Strider @ World’s Biggest Bookstore interview
“LIGHTBREAKER is a Dan Brown thriller written by Aleister Crowley, wherein everyone who is after the mystical secret key of the universe actually knows how to use it. And they’re willing to break things in order to get it.”
Wherein we talk about the history of the book, the process [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2009
Filed under Lightbreaker |
Order: Amazon | B & N | Powell’s
The Pitch:
Markham has returned to Seattle, searching for Katarina, the girl who, a decade ago, touched his soul, literally tearing it from his body. But what he discovers upon arriving is dark magick . . . of a most ancient and destructive kind.
An encounter with [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2009
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The Mad Hatter Interview
“We opted to add the somewhat lengthy teaser for Heartland to the back of Lightbreaker to make it clear there was more going on than Markham realized. And Heartland is the culmination of that larger scheme. He goes back to Paris to deal with all the history that he left behind there [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2009
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The Night Shade Interview
“LIGHTBREAKER—in its first iteration, a very, very long time ago—was much more of a vampire and werewolf sort of urban fantasy, but the market, as we know it today, didn’t exist then and we couldn’t get anyone interested in it. In that iteration, while there was some of the magick elements (the [...]
Posted on May 31st, 2009
Filed under Appearances |
Celebrating the release of Lightbreaker, there will be a reading on June 16th at Borderlands Books, in San Francisco.
Borderlands Books
866 Valencia
San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
