Magical cozy mysteries are fairly common, but not many publishers will look at a set-in-the-real-world murder mystery featuring a coroner who is also a priestess in service to Anubis. Religion, in most science fiction, is for aliens the Others, not rational humans who have embraced science. But the assumption on the part of the publisher (and likely the reader) is that everything in the story is make-believe - even the Gods and the Goddesses and the spirits and the hero’s faith.Īnd the other genres? Even less likely to take a story featuring a non-traditional spirituality. Sure, I could release a Pagan-friendly fantasy tale through one of those venues no one bats an eye at Gods and Goddesses striding across a fantasy landscape. But venues geared specifically towards Pagan, polytheistic, and witch-related fiction and poetry were (and are) few and far between. Fantasy and science fiction and mystery and romance venues were (and are) plentiful. I should not have been surprised at what I found. I had been a writer my entire life, but only around 2009 did I find the courage to begin submitting my work to book publishers, magazines, and journals. Welcome to the Winter Solstice 2022 issue of Eternal Haunted Summer.Įternal Haunted Summer was launched thirteen years ago, in the late summer of 2009.
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