Psst…did you know that I inserted a special type of magical character into my books?

In an earlier post, I talked about the magic circle, which is the temporary boundary witches cast to create a container for their work. A space beyond space, a time beyond time. A place where the strange and the sacred can unfold…with guardrails.

📖 Stories ripple beyond our control. They land in other people’s minds, they exist in the world, and sometimes they start to grow lives of their own.

Grant Morrison is a comic book writer and occultist, and they’ve spoken openly about how elements of The Invisibles—characters, plotlines—began leaking off the page and into their life.

They’re not alone.

I recently met a fellow witch who confessed…

…they were afraid to keep writing, because things they’d penned were happening off-page—and a little too often to be coincidence. So far, it was all good stuff…but what if that changed?

🪄 To me, writing a book is like an extended spellworking. I’m putting so much of my intention, energy, and will into the project that it can’t help but be a magical act.

But I knew, right from the start, that I’d need to put my characters through hell to tell the stories I wanted to tell (and to keep from boring you, dear reader, half to death).

How to prevent unwanted magical bleedthrough beyond the book?

Well, this is an ongoing experiment, but here’s what I did…

I created a character inside the ​Twin Flames Series​, a character linked to me via a magic ritual. I call this my Cameo Character, and they have very limited page time—i.e., they’re not dashing down dark alleys, arm wrestling monsters.

I then created a special notebook emblazoned with magic sigils. Sigils are my absolute favorite magical tool, because they work eerily well.

Within the confines of the sigilized notebook, I write my Cameo Character’s story—the things I want to experience in my life (in other words, I’m casting a spell).

Part of the experiment is this: when other people read the book, encountering my Cameo Character, does the magic get a boost? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You better believe I’ll be tracking any strange occurrences in my grimoire!

Want to meet my Cameo Character? They’re hidden in plain sight in the pages of ​The Fool & the Threads of Time​.

Thanks for wandering through the Crooked Door with me.

Until next time, my friend.

P.S. Step inside Quayside, the enchanted coastal town in ​The Fool & the Threads of Time​…