The opportunities I’ve wanted most in this life have been the hardest to achieve. While I was in the writing trenches, in that agonizing game of rejections and false hope, my husband and I were trying to create new life. I should also insert this here: I hadn’t wanted a child until I met my husband, but as every witch may know, timing is a thing. As soon as I saw his face, I knew he was my husband, and as we grew closer, I realized we would have a child. A couple of years into trying to conceive, I saw my spirit child. She whispered one word to me: patience. I understood this, but still, I wasn’t getting any younger and nothing was happening—pertaining to both my writing and trying to get pregnant. But guess what? There’s always magic.
My favorite spell is one that I’ve done a couple times. In fact, I believe my Book of Shadows opens right up to it. I love it because it brings me closer to the divine and yields confidence. It brings me strength. And there are props . . . witches love props. Though it took time for both things to find me—both did. I now have a beautiful daughter who was well worth the wait, and five books releasing between now and 2025 (and many more if I have anything to do with it).
Mariah’s Success Spell
Ingredients:
One green candle
One purple candle
A meaningful piece of jewelry
Instructions:
Ground yourself. When you are ready, hold the jewelry in your dominant hand and the lit purple candle in the other. As you walk across the room to where your unlit green candle is waiting, chant: I walk forward without doubt and fear, drawing success near. Repeat the mantra three times on your walk. Light the green candle with the purple candle, then have a seat before the flames. Close your eyes and meditate (while holding your jewelry to your chest) about the success you desire. Meditate for as long as needed and ensure that your candles burn all the way down. Your new amulet will now be charged and ready for you to wear whenever you need a little boost of confidence or a bit of success.
Sidenote: I believe if your intent is there, the magic will work. Just remember that timing is a thing. Heed my spirit child’s message—be patient.
Mariah Stillbrook
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy
Publisher: Creative James Media
Date of Publication: November 14, 2023
ISBN: 978-1-956183-50-4
Number of pages: 374
Word Count: 110,334
Cover Artist: Triumph Covers
Tagline: These witches have one month to end the spiritual threat to their bloodline. And not kill each other.
Book Description:
Two witches, two secrets, and a curse that could tear a family apart.
Olivia and Ellie have lived their lives knowing a dark entity is stalking their family, determined to kill them all. After the death of Olivia's son, she abandons her magic and her family, leaving Ellie in a nightmare of heartbreak, her marriage crumbling and her sister gone.
Determined to save their mother Arianna from a spell that left her comatose, the two sisters must come together to unravel the riddle of the curse that has haunted their family for generations.
But as they delve into the past, the truth they uncover is more twisted and treacherous than they ever could have imagined. Will they be able to break the curse, or will it consume them all?
Excerpt:
The sound of the waves crashing down below, the impending
fog rolling in, the wind sending curses past my cheeks, streaked with salt
water—all of it seemed to have been put into slow motion as I stood there, full
of rage and powerless against this demon as she held my daughter’s life in her
tainted, dead hands. Eight words were all I was afforded in the two seconds
that followed. “You were the one who let me in.”
And then it all happened at once. There was a "uttering
of feathers, the sensation of a stick being forced into my hand, and the sound
of my own screams as my daughter’s body fell; but then I just as quickly lunged
forward, standing on air and pointing my bit of willow down at her body just
before it was about to make contact with the jagged rocks below.
Maddie,
now in possession of her own body, stared up at me with wide eyes and a gaping
mouth as I floated over her like the witch I once was. And before she could
utter a single word, before I could make out the laughter that seemed to be
drifting back into the fog, I used my wand to lift her back up to the cliff and
set her down before landing back on solid earth myself.
Mariah Stillbrook, originally from Iowa, lives in Colorado with her white German shepherd, husband, and little girl. She graduated from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She spends most of her days writing, reading, and enjoying the occasional hike. In her late twenties she realized that her writing was missing something, magic. She now focuses her writing on horror and urban fantasy in both adult and young adult genres.
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