{"id":1817,"date":"2010-09-07T15:02:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T21:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2010-09-07T15:03:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T21:03:54","slug":"wet-goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"Wet Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malcolm Brenner, author of Wet Goddess<\/em>, his unique memoir of working with dolphins, has a new website, with an excerpt from the book, photos, purchase links, and related merchandise.<\/a><\/p>\n

Malcolm shopped Wet Goddess<\/em> around to publishers for years before self-publishing it. (After all, one of my favorite novels, The Sea Priestess<\/em><\/a>, went the same route\u2014too weird, too controversial.)<\/p>\n

In earlier days, Malcolm Brenner produced some now-archival Wiccan material, such as a video interview with Fred Lamond<\/a>, and he also produced some amazing (and low budget) illustrations for my 1995 edited collection from Llewellyn: Witchcraft and Shamanism<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malcolm Brenner, author of Wet Goddess, his unique memoir of working with dolphins, has a new website, with an excerpt from the book, photos, purchase links, and related merchandise. Malcolm shopped Wet Goddess around to publishers for years before self-publishing it. (After all, one of my favorite novels, The Sea Priestess, went the same route\u2014too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-tj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":180,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=180","url_meta":{"origin":1817,"position":0},"title":"Wicca and the Navajos Continuing\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 4, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Wicca and the Navajos Continuing my uploading of essays and papers to my web site, I have now added one of my favorite pieces of Pagan autobiographical writing, Malcolm Brenner's \"A Witch among the Navajos,\" which originally appeared in 1998 in Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions. Far\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":190,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=190","url_meta":{"origin":1817,"position":1},"title":"The Pagan Blogosphere If you're\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 23, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"The Pagan Blogosphere If you're reading this, you may be wondering where to find other blogs by Pagans. And the short answer is, there is no one place. 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