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People often ask me where the idea came from. The answer is a little unusual. It began nearly forty years ago, long before I thought of myself as a fantasy writer. I was simply a young woman with a tarot deck and a habit of sitting outside cafés with a cup of tea — shuffling my cards, watching the world go by. Sooner or later, somebody would notice. "Do you do the cards?" And then, almost inevitably: "Will you do mine?" I never charged. That wasn't really the point. What fasc

When the Emperor appears in a tarot spread, most readers will instantly think of authority, stability, and structure. He is the father figure of the deck, the one who sets rules and enforces order. Upright, he can represent wisdom, protection, and the security that comes from boundaries. But reversed, he becomes something else entirely: rigidity, control, and oppression. In my Way of the Wands series, the Emperor’s archetype takes centre stage in the desert kingdom of Battoni

When people hear the word tarot, they often think of fortune tellers, crystal balls, or shadowy predictions. Cards turned over like destiny, revealing what must be. But to me, that’s not what tarot is about at all. Tarot isn’t a road map to the future—it’s more like a mirror and a well. The Mirror The mirror shows us what’s already here. The patterns we live by. The truths we overlook. The stories we keep repeating, even when they no longer serve us. It reflects our relation

How do you start a topic as potentially life altering as this one? Lights are flickering. Glimpses of understanding seen through the fog of self delusion. How trapped we all are! Bound by our expectations, haunted by our sense of failure. Exhausted from the constant fight to achieve some sort of arbitrary outcome that can never satisfy us. I’m laughing because before I started writing this, I had the sentences all worked out. Now I’m physically writing it, words elude me. Ent