I took up the tarot about a year ago. I've always been drawn to these cards, the evocative, colorful pictures, each imbued with a sense of both history and mystery. Redolent of Italian parlors and gypsy caravans, the cards embody romance, adventure and the promise of...

Starr Creek Press is thrilled to announce the addition of Risotto "Rizzo" Mathison to our editorial staff. Rizzo joins us from the peach farm down the street and brings to his new job absolutely no skills whatsoever. He is cute, though. He will start at the bottom of...

Writing a novel inspired by Russian mythology is tricky. There's not much in the written record. When scribes were recording every aspect of Greek, Roman or even Celtic mythology, Slavic lore existed in a largely oral tradition. Before I wrote Vasilisa, I immersed...

My parents split up when I was six years old. They got back together when I was eight, but in those two years of loss and longing and learning, something miraculous happened. I became a writer -- long before I first "picked up a pen." It's a story shared by many (if...

Coming in February! I was really pleased with the beautiful artwork of my cover designer, Robin Vuchnich. I can't wait to share with you all the adventures of Vasilisa, Ivan and Evelyn as they journey to Old Rus and encounter all manner of witches, sprites, dragons...

My path to publication has been, to borrow a favorite lyric, a "long and winding road." I used to be an attorney and, as I quip on my website, "would write long briefs, making other people wrong on a part-time basis." I enjoyed law school because I'm crazy about...