Frequently Asked Questions

Yes! To schedule an event, please contact me. I’m also available to Zoom with your book club, library, or bookstore. 

Maybe. Pleasecontact mewith the following information: book description, publisher information, and date you'd need the endorsement by. These days I'm mainly endorsing fiction and tarot-oriented books. 

The free version of the app is now available online at GoddessTarotApp.com. With so many different screen sizes and tech requirements, it became increasingly difficult to keep the app updated across platforms for iPhone and Android.

The best thing to do is to contact the original publisher or seller directly for a replacement—I’m sure they will do all they can to set you right. 

• To contact the publisher, look for their contact information on the card box or booklet copyright page.
• If you’re missing the book or booklet, the Amazon product page for the deck will list the publisher under “Product Details.” From there, a quick Google search will get you their website with their contact info.
• If you purchased the deck second hand, you need to contact the seller.

I’ve published over a dozen books, ranging from children’s picture books to nonfiction for adults. I’ve also created several tarot and card decks; of these, The Goddess Tarot is the best known. My most recent books are Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women andTarot for Storytellers: A Creative Guide for Writers and Other Creatives, a book that arose from my popular tarot workshops for writers and creatives.

Though I began my publishing career as a book illustrator, these days I’m mainly writing, designing, and teaching. As far as future books, I’m currently at work on two historical novels, one which is about two sisters with a peculiar family legacy. 

Other upcoming books include a reissue of The Goddess Tarot Workbook in 2025. I'm also in prelaunch for a Kickstarter featuring the original children's book editions of The Book of Goddesses and Persephone and the Pomegranate—follow the Kickstarter here.

I'm an intuitive prone to overthinking, so my creative process tends to be nonlinear. I try to trust the logic in the illogical, which is where the tarot often plays a role. As far as a daily routine, I aim to work as often and as long as possible. Seriously. If you knew how many hours I work, you’d be shocked. Fortunately, I love what I do and do what I love. My creative synopses fire best when I can work with as little interruption as possible. Clearly, this is difficult in everyday “real life”, but my family is very, very tolerant. It helps they’re creative types too.

In terms of technical stuff, I draft my books in Scrivener, which allows me to write in a nonlinear fashion: a scene here, a detail there. Once I have a completed draft, I edit in Word. I’m also a big fan of lists and spreadsheets. 

I’m drawn to lushly written novels with a romantic, gothic sensibility. I love the novels of Sarah Waters, Jessie Burton, Molly Greeley, and Audrey Niffenegger. I also love historical fiction. I adored A. S. Byatt’s Possession, Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale, V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent is another novel that blew me away. I devoured Lev Grossman’s The Magicians trilogy. However, my favorite books of all time are probably Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I’ve reread both often.

For nonfiction, I can’t resist food memoirs such as Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, Julia Child’s My Life in France, and Ruth Reichl’s memoirs, especially her first one, Tender at the Bone. I also adored Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk.

As far as artists, when I was in college I discovered the work of the Pre-Raphaelites—most especially the work of William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Edward Burne-Jones. The illustrations of Alan Lee, a mentor the year I lived in England at the start of my career, is another huge inspiration. I’ve also found inspiration in the work of Joseph Cornell and Jean Cocteau—artists who intermingle the magical with the material in a multitude of mediums and formats. Most of all, I find inspiration and support in my author and artist friends. No creative person can work in a vacuum—we need the community of like-minded souls.