Overview
In Trans Magick: Suffer a Witch to Live, a coven of witches sues the Christian god for peace in a court Between the Worlds. It is a satirical, sardonic, comedic romp that nonetheless addresses some deadly serious issues in religious tolerance and lack of respect for difference that have gone on for thousands of years. Parts of the novel are dire due, life and death, yet much of it works with quirky characters and absurdity to shed light on things that have been going on—and that many people believe should happen.
Trans Magick is set in a small town in Kansas, the Buckle of the Bible Belt—a region of the world just gaining indoor plumbing, that most people hadn’t noticed even really exists, that has struggled on an official, state level with allowing evolution to be taught in schools, or how to how it should be referred, struggling to include Intelligent Design into class rooms. After a hate crime against the coven, and the ruling of a local judge the coven can no longer circle, the coven summons a tribunal of three Celtic gods who are ready to dispense justice. The gods encase the entire town in a 9 mile radius sphere to capture everyone present, prevent anyone else from entering, and then they inspire conflict between the witches and the Judeo-Christian fundamentalists within, bringing their three thousand year war to a head. The rest of the world learns about the war and tries to interfere, but it seems only the witches, and the Pope, are allowed. The climax of the story, however, does involve the entire planet as major changes are made.
Jessie Lynn Lyons, the High Priestess of the coven, is transgender neutrois, self-defining as variable, no particular gender that fits a binary description, or gender fluid. Because she was born overtly male, she prefers the feminine pronoun and reference to help balance an implied masculine gender. After several reincarnations, dealing with issues of herself, social justice, and witchcraft through millennia, she has come to believe that a binary gender limits her ability to connect with the energies of the cosmos, the All Power, the Goddess, as it tends to harmonize with the identity or nature internalized. For Jessie, the cosmos is everything, both masculine and feminine, and she finds ecstasy in harmonizing with All.
Wicca in the Coven of the Silver Moon is eclectic with symbols and tools, practices and beliefs self-inspired or taken from several different schools of thought. If one is familiar with the Craft in various popular forms, Gardnerian, Cochranian, Correllian, etc., coven workings will be familiar, yet nothing herein is meant to imply any particular Tradition.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940152418804 |
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| Publisher: | Aimee Norin |
| Publication date: | 10/17/2015 |
| Series: | Trans People Living |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| Sales rank: | 737,196 |
| File size: | 528 KB |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
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I am an advocate for trans people, for transgender, transsexual, gender non-conforming and LGBTQI living. I not only write for entertainment but to address issues felt by minorities, which includes trans people as a whole and also minority groups within—views both popular and unpopular—with an underlying message throughout of the value of life, mutual acceptance, and mutual respect.
PLEASE NOTE: My characters are usually in some form of conflict, working through issues, struggling with society or sometimes even with their own demons in an effort to find love and respect, happiness in life. A novel may walk with a character through her own hell, then glimpse by the end a new way for her to engage in her life—or an idea may be expressed one way, in one novel, only to be expressed differently in another novel, by the same or another character—how people's views change over time, in different situations, or as seen by others.
Some novels are happy for the most part, such as "Out of the Closet," "Falling in Love" and "Transmutation." "Falling in Love" is particularly romantic, with some devastation, argument; "Transmutation" is also funny, through it starts out with a death and the protagonist's angry refusal to endure that again. "Transmutation" is a trans utopian future. "Hate Crimes" is a combination of a dream come true, hate crimes, and a plea for peace.
Finally, I must note: I think of myself more as a storyteller than a writer. Transitions are expensive, sometimes costing several multiples of an annual salary, and sometimes the treatment industry charges way too much. In addition, when someone is hurting because she needs to change, or when someone's social or financial life has been affected in relation to a transition, money can be even harder to come by. In order to keep these books coming for free, I usually do not use an outside editor as I make no money off these books at all and editors are costly. I spend a great deal of time with each novel, but if a mistake is noted, please email me at aimeenorin@gmail.com and let me know.
Without an editor, all these novels are all a work-in-progress, and I do depend on feedback about content. I do respond to such feedback in an effort to please, and go back and revise the novels. When enough modifications are made, I may put a "V" for Version on the cover to quickly indicate.
As always, all Aimee Norin materials are copyrighted, all rights reserved. Beyond the legal minimum, no Aimee Norin novel may be copied, shared, or reproduced electronically or otherwise without prior written permission of the author.
Thank you, and blessings to all,
Aimee Norin