The Biography Channel's Emmy® Award-winning documentary series Biography® will feature three Llewellyn authors on its upcoming episode on witches. Among the witches interviewed and featured on this week’s episode are authors Silver RavenWolf, Christopher Penczak, and Stefani Barner. The episode will focus on the history of witchcraft, spanning from ancient times to the modern day Wicca movement, and explore the facts and fiction surrounding witches. According to the Biography website, the program begins by “[traveling] back 2000 years before Christianity when witches were considered great healers who prayed to the forces of nature.” The “Witches” episode of Biography can

Michelle Belanger, author of Llewellyn’s Vampires in Their Own Words, Walking the Twilight Path, and the forthcoming Haunting Experiences, was featured on A & E’s show Paranormal State. The episode, “The Messenger,” which originally aired on Monday, August 25, centers on a retired couple that witnesses a headless apparition. The prolific author and artist has been consulted on past episodes, but “The Messenger” is the first in which Belanger is onscreen. She has filmed three episodes, and will likely continue to be featured on the show in the future. Paranormal State follows Paranormal Research Society founder Ryan Buell and his team of investigators as they

Witch, DJ, and Llewellyn author Raven Digitalis has been profiled by MTV News. The segment initially aired on MTV on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 5pm Eastern. The segment will be rerun on MTV, MTV2, and MTVU, as well as being available at MTV News. “Witches believe in balance, and instead of relying on a book to tell us what is sacred and what is profane, we recognize our own ability to discern our actions and understand if we are helping or harming ourselves and the people around us. Books, teachers, and other people definitely help point the way for us all, but the true answers lie within,” says Raven Digitalis in Goth Craft, the new book examining the magickal side of dark

The Essence of Tantric Sexuality, a Llewellyn Worldwide title that explores the Hindu tantric tradition, has been named a USA Book News “Best Book” in the Health: Sexuality category, as well as being named a finalist in the Eastern Religions Category. USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced the winners and finalists of The National Best Books Awards (BBA) 2007. Now in their fourth year, the awards recognize “[w]hat’s hot, new, and noteworthy in the world of books.” The Essence of Tantric Sexuality, by authors Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson, is a modern, comprehensive, and accessible book