My books

The cover of the tenth anniversary edition of All acts of Love and Pleasure: inclusive Wicca, designed by Sorita d’Este with a painting of the Divine Androgyne by Paul B Rucker.

All acts of love and pleasure:
inclusive Wicca

The tenth anniversary edition of All acts of Love and Pleasure: inclusive Wicca — expanded, revised, and updated.

The first edition broke new ground by advocating for inclusive Wicca that celebrates all acts of love and pleasure, not just some.

The book includes chapters and sections on 2SLGBTQIA inclusion in Wicca, anti-racism, cultural appropriation, including disabled and neurodivergent people, consent culture, Wicca and science, running a coven, and more!

Avalonia, 2025.

Pagan Roots: Reclaiming concepts of the sacred

If you love words, then you’ll love this book.

Most sacred concepts have Pagan roots, since ancient pagans cultivated virtues, discussed theology, and prayed to the gods.

The book explores core concepts of the Pagan path, connecting with Nature, the old gods, folklore and mythology, the Wheel of the Year, the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth, and gender and sexuality; reclaims widely misunderstood concepts such as virtue or prayer; and reevaluates Pagan concepts such as fertility, polarity, apotheosis, tradition.

1000Volt Press, 2025.

Changing Paths

Winner of an award from the Coalition of Visionary Resources (2024).

Are you leaving a religion, entering Paganism, leaving Paganism, changing traditions within it, or leaving religion altogether? 

Changing Paths offers resources for examining religious attitudes to gender, sexuality, other religions, and whether your religion supports you effectively; these are offered in a compassionate and supportive way.

1000Volt Press, 2023.

Dark Mirror:
The inner work of witchcraft

Inner work is a name commonly given to the inner processes that happen in ritual. It can also mean the transformation of the psyche that comes about through engaging in ritual, strengthening the authentic self, embodied spirituality, and weaving relationships and community with other beings.

Doreen Valiente Foundation,
second edition, 2020.

The Night Journey:
Witchcraft as Transformation

This book is aimed at witches who want to deepen their engagement with their Craft. It explores how rituals work; Queer Witchcraft; witchcraft and the land; working with ancestors; the witch’s pact; and the concept of the night journey;  how to evaluate your Craft; and the archetype of the witch.

Doreen Valiente Foundation,
second edition, 2020.

Pagan Consent Culture

Co-edited with Christine Hoff Kraemer

How might a Druid, a Wiccan, a Heathen, or a Polytheist understand consent? In Pagan Consent Culture, Pagans show how to ground good consent practices in Pagan stories, liturgies, and values.

Asphodel Press, 2016

Secret night song 

Poetry reflecting on the land, the seasons, the Moon, the stars, the goddess of flowers, and the hidden rhythms of Nature. 

Birdberry Books, 2023

A little book of serpents

The mythology, symbolism, folklore, and poetry of reptiles, including adders, asps, pythons, and other snakes; crocodiles and dinosaurs; turtles and tortoises; dragons and other mythical serpents. 

Birdberry Books, 2012

The Endless Knot

Poetry of place, experience, the seasons, and the sacred. Written over many years, these poems are the distillation of experiences of ritual, landscape, and mythology. 

Birdberry Books, 2012

Many Names

A book of prayers, meditations and chalice lightings reflecting diverse understandings of the Divine, including Taoist, Pagan, pantheist, Neo-Platonic, and Unitarian perspectives.

Birdberry Books, 2012

Contributed chapters

An inclusive Wicca manifesto

chapter in Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries, edited by Lee Harrington and Tai Fenix Kulystin.
Mystic Productions Press, 2018.

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Is it meaningful to speak of ”queer spirituality”? An examination of queer and LGBT imagery and themes in contemporary paganism and Christianity

chapter in Contemporary Christianity and LGBT Sexualities ed. Stephen Hunt, Routledge, 2009. 

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 The Republic of Heaven on Earth

chapter in Priestesses, Pythonesses and Sibyls, ed. Sorita d’Este, Avalonia Books, 2009 

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The Mirror of the Soul: Assessing the function of watery rituals and folk beliefs

chapter in From a Drop of Water, ed. Kim Huggens, Avalonia Books, 2009

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Available secondhand

2000.  Out of print.

Folklore and mythology from all over the world is full of animal stories, and many deities have animal totems associated with them. The animals, birds, trees, and places connected with each deity link all Nature in a web of symbols, showing that everything depends on everything else. Animals represent the power of the deity at work in the world, a visible manifestation of the numinous.

1994. Out of print.

Examines in detail the interpretation of birds as auguries & omens, the mythology of birds (Roman, Greek, Celtic & Teutonic), the folklore & weather lore associated with them, their use in heraldry & falconry & their appearances in folk songs & poetry. The book explores these areas in a general way, then goes into specific details of individual birds.

1994. Out of print.

The veneration of trees was a prominent theme in the Paganism of ancient and classical times. Many rituals took place in sacred groves and much of their symbolism involved the cosmic tree. The mysteries of the forest can be incorporated into modern Pagan traditions.

1993. Out of print.

First published in 1994 and reprinted several times since then. Fascinating & truly unique – a comprehensive guide to the magical, medicinal & craft uses, mythology, folklore, symbolism & weatherlore of trees. There are chapters on trees in myth & legend, tree spirits, trees in ritual magic, trees & alphabets (runes & Ogham) & weather lore.