11-9-26 Kerry E.B. Black Binges Books!

Anyone who knows me and my writing is aware of my passion for justice for those convicted of and murdered for witchcraft. So, what a pleasure to read How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy’s Guide to Silencing Women by Zoe Venditozzi and Claire Mitchell, the masterminds behind the “Witches of Scotland” campaign. (Please check out their work on behalf of the women nearly erased from history. I hope to order one of their custom-designed tartans.) In this book, the authors researched with experts and presented in a conversational and approachable account of some of the events that lead to the witchcraft panic in Scotland. The authors humanize their research by giving a fact-based imagining of the experiences of a couple of their subjects. It also touches on events around the world, including Salem, Mass. I was especially surprised to find a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanian connection, in that Andrew Carnegie received an artifact associated with a Scottish witch during a visit to his birthland. This book is a worthy writing about an important topic.

Kerry E.B. Black, crazy cat mom of felines named for great authors and nearly grown children who are not, writes an eclectic collection of tales from an itty, bitty house sinking into a swamp outside of the city of steel, three rivers, and zombies. This author of two paranormal thrillers (Awakening at Equinox and Spring of Spirits), four collections of short scares and flashes of fright (Herd of Nightmares, Carousel of Nightmares, Nightmares on Holidays, and Fairy Herds and Mythscapes), two poetry collections (Poetic Nightmares and Witches in the Air - which contains Poetic essays on historical witchcraft allegations, the tools of the trade,the representation of the witch in media, and modern witch trials) and a pseudo-historical novella (Wolves at Bay about a fraught sibling relationship, an attempted healing, and a witchcraft allegation) is a member of the Horror Writers Association. Please follow her social media, including her website https://www.KerryEBBlack.com