(Readers: this is Part Two of a 3-part article. Click on these links for Part One and Part Three.) Spring/Summer 2012 I need to start writing shorter descriptions if I want to get through all of these! Here are the books I acquired that came out this summer. Magical Gardens – written 15 years ago by the late and great Patricia Monaghan, a couple years ago she contacted me to see if we’d be interested in releasing a revised and updated anniversary edition. Of course I said yes! This book is a treasure, and if I ever have a yard, I will use this book to design an enchanted garden – maybe Bast’s Cat Garden, maybe Kuan-Yin’s Garden of Mercy, maybe the Sorcerer’s Secret Garden

(Readers: this is Part Three of a 3-part article. Click on these links for Part One and Part Two.) Fall 2012 This brings us up to books that have just released this month or the last couple months. Hot off the presses. Go find them in your local bookstores! Faery Craft – the ultimate gift for anyone who loves faery art, faery fiction, and of course, faery reality. This book offers everything from a wealth of tips to communicating with faeries to a full treatment of the faery-loving lifestyle, including festivals, magazines, and more. There are great interviews with writers like Charles de Lint, artists like Brian and Wendy Froud, musicians like S.J. Tucker, and the book is crammed

Have you attended festivals or conferences put together by hard-working volunteers and organizers? Have you mingled at Pagan Pride Day, learned something new from an excellent workshop at a local store, chanted under the moon with close friends, felt energy coursing through hands of strangers on either side of you? Have you been entertained and enlightened by bloggers musing on topics you once thought only you thought about, and followed it up with a lively discussion with others in the comments section? Pagan community permeates our lives in so many ways, both online and offline. Even if you don’t think about it often or meet with “actual Pagans” in your community every day, you can

What is the first sign of summer for you? Eating dinner outdoors? The basil in your garden? Popsicles, kiddie pools? Bathing suit weather? The sun crossing into the sign of Cancer? At Llewellyn, the sign that summer is truly here is when our 2013 annuals arrive to the warehouse! Yup folks, they are all here, which means they're already on their way to a bookstore near you -- or perhaps you've already received yours if you ordered online! I just wanted to share a blog post by an annual writer, Calantirniel, who wrote a piece in Llewellyn's 2013 Witches' Companion titled "Who Heals the Healers?” which I'm sure will be of great interest to many of you. In that article, she promised