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The post about EMERALD was the most viewed post of 2014. Emerald is regarded as the traditional birthstone for May, as well as the traditional gemstone for the astrological signs of Taurus, Gemini and sometimes Cancer. Astrologers also consider emerald a gem of the planets Mercury, Venus and Jupiter.

The post about EMERALD was the most viewed post of 2014. Emerald is regarded as the traditional birthstone for May, as well as the traditional gemstone for the astrological signs of Taurus, Gemini and sometimes Cancer. Astrologers also consider emerald a gem of the planets Mercury, Venus and Jupiter.

To kick off the new year, I’d like to share with you data on this site’s activity in 2014.

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. Visitors to this site came from 160 different countries.

The busiest day of the year was April 4th with 145 views. The most popular post that day was Emerald, which was also the most frequently viewed post throughout the year. The other most popular posts were:

Daffodil, the flower of March
Lily of the Valley
Marigold, the “birth slower” of October
St. John’s Wort

Radio Prague

I was given this souvenir Radio Prague cup -- complete with a spoon for stirring hot chocolate! -- when I was there for my interview in March 2014.

I was given this souvenir Radio Prague cup — complete with a spoon for stirring hot chocolate! — when I was there for my interview in March 2014.

When I was in Prague last March for the annual Evil and Human Wickedness conference, I was invited to the Radio Prague studios for an interview by Jan Velinger. He has a daily half-hour program and includes a “cultural” or “artistic” interview once a week. The interview was recently reposted on the Radio Prague site here.

Almost all of Radio Prague’s programming is online, rather than traditional radio waves; you can read the text of my interview or listen to actual interview by clicking on the link above. It was a LOT of fun to meet Jan and to see the inside of the studio from the vantage point of the interviewee’s chair on the “other” side of the microphones.

Come to the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 21!

My booth at last year's Brooklyn Book Festival. The weather was wonderful -- cross your fingers that it will be this year as well!

My booth at last year’s Brooklyn Book Festival. The weather was wonderful — cross your fingers that it will be this year as well!

Find me beneath the “Stephen Morris, Author” sign, on SEPTEMBER 21, 2014 from 10am-6pm. The festival will be held

Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza
209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn NY 11201

The festival can be easily reached by several subway lines:

take the M, R, 2, 3, 4, or 5 trains to Court St/Borough Hall, or take the A, C, F trains to Jay St/Borough Hall.

More information about the annual festival can be found here.

If you cannot drop by and say, “Hello!” at the Book Festival, you can order WOLFBANE on Amazon here.

Discount copies of the Come Hell or High Water trilogy will be available at the Brooklyn Book Festival as well. Buy a set of the entire trilogy and get a FREE copy of Wolfbane!