February 10, 2023—2pmCT Join us for our next Llewellyn Virtual Author Forum! This bi-monthly series of free online roundtable events will feature your favorite Llewellyn authors discussing topics important to you and answering your questions. Our next in the series, on Folk Magic, will feature Ozark Mountain Spellbook author Brandon Weston; Cory Thomas Hutcheson, author of New World Witchery and the forthcoming Llewellyn's Complete Book of North American Folk Magic; Madame Pamita, author of Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft; Water Magic author Lilith Dorsey; and H. Byron Ballard, author of Roots, Branches & Spirits. Join the live conversation, and ask them your questions! We'll

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Deborah Blake, author of several books, including her new Everyday Witch's Coven. I have always been a fairly solitary person. Most of my activities, like writing or gardening, are things I do by myself, and I'm not terribly social by nature. So when a friend invited me to come to her witchy events, I resisted for a long time. It sounded interesting, but the idea of hanging out with a bunch of people I didn't know, doing who knows what…well, it didn't seem like something that would appeal to me. When I finally went to one, a Samhain ritual (in 1997, I think, but it was so long ago, the dates are foggy), it changed my life. Not only did I