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Costantia was born in the UK to Cypriot parents and spent the picture book period of her life in London (battling with a name that even she has difficulty pronouncing in English!). She spent her middle grade and young adult years in Cyprus and then the USA and then back round again.

She now lives amidst almond and olive trees on the outskirts of a hot, dusty Cypriot village, the Green Line and buffer zone checkpoints clearly visible from her kitchen windows. Her two young daughters, English hubby, lioness-dog Luna, and hyperactive pup Woody keep her busy and are an endless source of story ideas, new characters, and constant interruptions. Her debut picture book Tomatoes in my Lunchbox will be available in spring/summer 2022 (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan USA).Read More →

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Monica Leonelle is a USA Today bestselling author best known for her book publishing and business expertise at TheWorldNeedsYourBook.com. Her nonfiction series, The Productive Novelist, has sold over 60,000 copies and helped thousands of writers write faster, become better storytellers, and find their way to success.

Before becoming an independent author, Monica led digital marketing efforts at Inc. 100 companies such as Hansen’s Natural and Braintree. She’s been an avid blogger of marketing and business trends since 2007. Her ideas have been featured in AdAge, Forbes, Inc., Newsweek, The Huffington Post, the AMEX OpenForum, GigaOm, Mashable, Social Media Today, and the Christian Science Monitor.Read More →

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Veronica Solorzano Athanasiou is a Bio-Statistician with a piano and a garden who was born in Venezuela and is currently living in the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.

She writes for her own well-being and is a Spanish speaker who communicates in English and Greek. Her first book, Clara Thinks to Us, was written originally in English and later translated to Spanish. It is an autobiographical novel, with optimistic outcomes for the challenges the main character faces.Read More →

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Imelda Almqvist is an international teacher of Sacred Art and Seidr/Old Norse Traditions (the ancestral wisdom teachings of Northern Europe). She has published three books: Natural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit for Life (Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages) in 2016, Sacred Art: A Hollow Bone for Spirit (Where Art Meets Shamanism) in 2019, and Medicine of the Imagination – Dwelling in Possibility (An impassioned plea for fearless imagination) in 2020.

She has presented her work on both The Shift Network and Sounds True. She appears in a TV programme titled Ice Age Shaman, made for the Smithsonian Museum, in the series Mystic Britain, talking about Neolithic arctic deer shamanism. Her fourth book, about the pre-Christian spirituality of the Netherlands and Low Countries, will be published in 2022. She has started her fifth book about the runes of the Futhark/Uthark. In response to the 2020 pandemic, she has opened an online school called Pregnant Hag Teachings to make more of her classes available online.

I recently interviewed Imelda about her writing and it made me curious about her online school. Needless to say, I immediately asked if we could schedule another interview. Here it is.Read More →

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Laura Perry is a Pagan artist and author and the founder and facilitator of Modern Minoan Paganism. Her first book, Ancient Spellcraft, was published in 2001. She’s been writing both fiction and non-fiction ever since, as well as blog posts and magazine articles.

In addition to writing, Laura loves to create art of all sorts, such as The Minoan Tarot and The Minoan Coloring Book. She’s drawn interior illustrations for her non-fiction books and has created original art for the cover of her newest novel, The Last Priestess of Malia. Her art focuses on themes of Pagan spirituality, the ancient world, and folk art.Read More →