Gifts by Renee is a small handmade business offering spell candles, bath salt, simmer pots and spiritual tools. Every item I create is rooting and p intention. Everything is crafted with a purpose using high high quality ingredients and a touch of magic.
We are a woman owned, family operated and commercially licensed tea and spice business based out of Manchester, NH. Owners Heidi and John are the ones you will most often see behind the table but each family member has a key contribution to the business. This is truly a family involved business! Our family moto is do what you like...
At Lunar Wings & Mystic Roots, the magic of the macabre intertwines with handcrafted artistry steeped in Victorian shadow and gothic influence. I create enchanting pieces designed to feel like something stumbled upon rather than made. Each creation holds the hush of overgrown cemeteries and the flicker of séance candlelight, places where tiny spirits are nestled among weathered stones and...
Cadfael meets The Name of the Rose in a medieval eastern European village when two young adults encounter a witch in a wooded glen. Eric and Julia seek tree grafts to help their families' orchards. When darkening skies and distant thunder tell of an approaching storm, Eric motions them back home. Sullya, a witch hidden in the trees, grabs Julia as they walk past. Eric swings his axe and severs Sullya’s hand. Wounded, Sullya seeks refuge in the deep bole of an old oak in the center of the glen. Her hand falls onto the same oak and crawls up the trunk to join her. The sky opens with heavy rain. Eric wants to flee but Julia, believing they're safe, torments the witch. Sullya safely hid in the old oak, curses them, their families, their crops, their livestock, and their village. Soon crops wilt, livestock die, and much of village falls ill. The village priest, Father Baillot, seems ignorant of church ways and proves ineffective against the curse. The village elders seek help elsewhere, ...
Joseph Carrabis told stories to anyone who would listen starting in childhood, wrote his first stories in grade school and started getting paid for his writing in 1978. His work history includes periods as a long-haul trucker, apprentice butcher, apprentice coffee buyer/broker, lumberjack, Cold Regions researcher, mathematician, semanticist, semioticist, physicist, educator, Chief Data Scientist, Chief Research Scientist, Chief Neuroscience Officer, Neuromarketer-in-Residence, and Chief Research Officer.
Prior to becoming a full-time author, Joseph sat on several advisory boards including the Center for Multicultural Science and the Journal of Cultural Marketing Strategy. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research; an Annenberg Fellow at the University of Southern California's Center for the Digital Future; Director of Predictive Analytics, Center for Adaptive Solutions; and was an original member of the NYAS/UN's Scientists Without Borders program. He held patents covering mathematics, anthropology, neuroscience, and linguistics based on a technology he created in his basement and from which he created an international company.
He retired from corporate life and now spends his time writing fiction and non-fiction based on his experiences. His work appears regularly in anthologies and his own novels. He's the author of The Augmented Man, Empty Sky, The Inheritors, Tales Told 'Round Celestial Campfires, The Shaman, Search, Tag, and the non-fiction neuroscience-based That Th?nk You Do. His work appears regularly in anthologies and his own novels. You can often find him playing with his dog, Boo, and snuggling with his wife, Susan.
