Jael – Amy Kuivalainen

February Update

Hi Everyone, Where did January go??? Got a not so crazy feeling that this year is going to be full on! Things are going down in the weird writing world of Amy. So far this year I have: *Completed another re-write of Jael/Mychal book. I have a draft that I’ve proof read and while itContinue reading “February Update”

Failed NaNoWriMo but still got a book out of it.

Those who know me know that I’ve never taken failure well even though I seem to be turning it into a spectacular kind of performance art piece in which I live my life. This isn’t a bad thing. Some of the greatest things have happened to me in the middle of a grand failure; I met my awesome partner failing at a job; IContinue reading “Failed NaNoWriMo but still got a book out of it.”

Witnessing Father Amorth: “The Vatican Exorcist” at Work and the Pathology Otherwise Known as Possession — Saint Michael’s Journal

by WILLIAM FRIEDKIN for Vanity Fair Sunday morning, May 1 of this year, was Father Amorth’s 91st birthday, but he had no plans to celebrate. He awoke just after dawn, said his usual morning prayers and one to Joseph of Cupertino, a 17th-century saint, and another to the late Father Candido Amantini, his mentor. Clutching […]Continue reading “Witnessing Father Amorth: “The Vatican Exorcist” at Work and the Pathology Otherwise Known as Possession — Saint Michael’s Journal”

Weirdness that Happens when writing about Exorcists

Today I sat down to write and do some additional research on a chapter of my new exorcist book only to find the man I was going to mention, the famous Catholic Exorcist Gabriele Amorth had died. I’ve had this chapter planned for weeks but still, it made me take a moments pause. It alsoContinue reading “Weirdness that Happens when writing about Exorcists”

Purging daily demons: what’s behind the popularity of exorcisms?

At the moment I am working on a new book about a Melbourne Exorcist and I’m being inundated by surprisingly current research on the matter. The following is an article written by Joseph P. Laycock , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University has written for the fantastic news site The Conversation. It goes intoContinue reading “Purging daily demons: what’s behind the popularity of exorcisms?”