Maggie Shayne
Maggie Shayne is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 40 novels on topics ranging from the paranormal
to romantic suspense, westerns to romance. Many of her stories include elements of Witchcraft and
magick. Her writing experience includes a year of writing for TV soaps that culminated in her
being offered the job of co-head writer of Guiding Light, an offer she turned down after much soul
searching. Maggie practiced solitary Wicca for ten years before joining the Black Forest Clan,
where she took formal training and worked her way up through the three degrees of Traditional
Craft. Later, she helped create a new path as one of the five founders of The RavenMyst Circle
tradition. She remains on the board of directors of that now four-year-old trad today, has written
many of its lessons for students, and runs one of its largest covens, "The Hawks of RavenMyst."
Maggie lives on a sprawling former dairy farm in Chenango County NY. She has a husband, five
daughters, three grandchildren, a black lab, a chocolate lab, an English bulldog, and an arrogant
cat who rules them all.
http://www.maggieshayne.com
Gail Wood
has been a
Witch and Wiccan priestess for more than twenty years, practicing a shamanic path celebrating the
Dark Moon. She is clergy, teacher, ritual leader, tarot reader and Reiki Master. She teaches
workshops and classes on alternative spiritualities, Wicca, tarot, ritual, shamanic journeywork,
and Reiki. She is the author of Rituals of the Dark Moon: 13 Lunar Rites for a Magical
Path (Llewellyn, 2001); articles in a variety of pagan publications; and the forthcoming
book, The Wild God: Meditations and Rituals on the Sacred Masculine available in
2005 from Spilled Candy Publications. In 2006 and 2007 her work can be found in several Llewellyn
annuals including the Witches Calendar and The Spell-A-Day Almanac. She is a member the Coven of the
Redtail Hawk, and she is High Priestess of the Coven of the Heron, both covens of the RavenMyst
Circle, http://www.ravenmyst.org. She can
be contacted by email at witchwood@mindspring.com
and by mail at Gail Wood P. O. Box 15 McLean, NY 13102-0015; and see her website with a few of her
friends at http://www.witchesinprint.com