What inspired me to make the leap into the fantasy realm with this book?

Fantasy is a new genre for me starting with this third novel. A fan of Charles de Lint, Mary Renault, and Neil Gaiman, I was inspired to draw on my own magickal experiences before and after becoming an initiated Wiccan priestess and shamanic practitioner in Marin County, CA. When truth is better than fiction, why not start there? Loosely based on people, beings, and nonordinary places I’ve encountered in my 25 years of shamanic study, the second half of The Secret of the Cylinder takes a detour down the rabbit hole and brings delightful surprises where I let my magickal muse run free.