Eight Llewellyn titles are finalists for 2012 COVR Awards: Chakra Awakening, by Margaret Ann Lembo (Alternative Health & Healing Book Category) Never Letting Go, by Mark Anthony (Spirituality/Alternative Science & Spirituality Book Category) Spirit & Dream Animals, by Richard Webster (Divination Book Category) The Healing Wisdom of Birds, by Lesley Morrison (General Interest/How-To Book Book Category) Llewellyn's 2012 Dragon Calendar, by Anne Stokes/Llewellyn (Other Sideline Category) The Flying Witches of Veracruz, by James Endredy (Magick/Shamanism Book Category) The Small-Town Pagan's Survival Guide, by Bronwen Forbes (Wicca/Paganism Book Category) The

Tea Leaf Reading for Beginners by Caroline Dow has won the 2012 Colorado Authors' League Award for General Book-Length Nonfiction. Established in 1931 to "foster the art and craft of authorship," the Colorado Authors' League is comprised of more than 250 professional writers, including authors of adult fiction and nonfiction, magazine journalists, children's book writers, playwrights, and poets. They have monthly luncheons that host writers and speakers offering insights on a variety of topics, as well as an annual gala awards banquet each may that features the presentation of the prestigious CAL awards honoring outstanding writers in a variety of categories.

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Ginny Brock, author of By Morning's Light. The spirits I know don’t exactly go bump in the night. One of them did knock a book out of the bookcase to get not only my attention, but the attention of a couple in the room who we’d gone on vacation with to Africa. The book fell without any provocation—no one bumped into the bookcase, there were no earthquakes that night (anything is possible these days), no reason. It had been sitting there quietly for years. The name of the book was The African Giant, a travel log by the author Stuart Cloete. That particular spirit would be my late husband Walt. He’s the noisiest spirit I know, but

Originally published in PanGaia magazine issue #50, an interview with Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, chairman of Llewellyn Worldwide and author of several books, is now available online. Visit www.witchesandpagans.com to read the full interview with Carl. You can also read an opinion piece from Carl, "Tips for Aspiring Writers," that also appeared with the interview in PanGaia issue #50.