A giveaway, and a look back

Today we have a giveaway, and a 2023 retrospective.

Giveaway!

In celebration of the holidays, and as a thank-you to all the subscribers here, I’m doing a book giveaway: 1 set of signed hardcover copies of ALL THREE of my Waking Land books- The Waking Land, The Memory of Fire and The Soul of Power. (I’ve been meaning to do this for a while!)

How to enter: 1) be a subscriber (free, paid, either way) to The Tangled Path, and 2) leave a comment — either by hitting reply in your email, or commenting on this post. Tell me what you love about the holidays. Or your fave recent read. 3) Enter by January 2. I’ll try to remember to post a reminder.

Unfortunately, I can only ship within the U.S. so if you are from elsewhere, I’m sorry to disappoint.

FYI: These are fantasy novels and they are quite different from the essays here on this Substack. If you like fantasy, you may enjoy them?! If you do not like fantasy, maybe you know someone else who does?! Read a description here.

2023

I don’t know how people can ever look at the year behind or the year ahead and sum it up with one word. (Influencer voice: “Vision. Blossoming. Pulchritude.” Okay, I have never seen an influencer use the word pulchritude but if I do….) A whole year is a complex, scattered thing, filled with starts and stops, clarity and confusion, things that seem like endings and other things that look like beginnings.