My weekly post - Receipt from the Bookshop - is written in real time from my award-winning independent bookshop in St. Annes-on-Sea, UK. Paid subscribers also get an additional weekly essay/book review and access to my book club.

Stories about disentangling food and feeding from the market.

Explorations in nature. Practices of the wild.

Join me in finding the extraordinary in the dusty & discarded. At the core is a Regency-era Arthurian quest to avoid ecological collapse, with sea dragons.

All Things Effy

Five themed book recommendations every month in lots of genres, for people who love great stories.

Astro-poetics, mythic astrology & the time-space weather. Astrology for sensitive creatives & rebels. Connect to the earth's heart, the Moon's rhythms, & your own magic.

exploring the messy, beautiful process of creativity — the hidden stories behind books, films, music, and my own writing journey

Essays and reflections on the numinous undercurrents of life, self, religion, horror, creativity, consciousness, and culture.

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.

Fresh from an artist’s life 🕊️

Juicy explorations of the reading-thinking-stitching life from the author of THE NERVIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, FOX AND CROW ARE NOT FRIENDS, and other books.

Hand drawn herb journal pages along with information about botanical foods and medicines, along with personal essays and reflections based on decades of creative, herbal living.