1/7 Folklore changes with the times, evolving through the centuries. In Sweden in modern times we might joke that someone who plays irresistible music must have a bit of Näcken in him.

They're gorgeous and enchanting. I've seen many of them in my homeland Sweden, but not so many here in the US.

Thank you to everyone who came celebrate The Foremothers Cafe's 2 year anniversary on ENGAGE. You have become like family. It's the power of the Metaverse. Connection and friendship. This community exists because of you! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being a part of it. 🩷

Join us at The Foremothers Cafe on #ENGAGE to celebrate 2 years of having our home on their amazing platform! #HistoryInVR #VirtualReality #TheForemothersCafe

1/3 It was just a little locket. Näcken found it in the river. There was a little portrait in it, but it floated away. He brought the locket home to his wife. It was a mistake. #FolkloreThursday #Folklore #SwedishFolklore #Näcken #thelureofwaterandwood

Oh wait! It's NOT Thursday today. And here I was posting about #FolkloreThursday 😱 Oh well, hello on Freya Friday as well then. #SwedishFolklore #FreyaFriday

Rå pulled men deeper and deeper into the woods until they lost all sense of time and place. She looked like a beautiful woman, but beneath her long hair, her back was just a tree trunk, just like all the other trees in the forest in which she lived. #FolkloreThursday #SwedishFolklore #Fairy #Rå

When you meet a fellow folklorist in VR things tend to get playful! @deedeechainey.bsky.social and I shared coffee with fierce demons, a stag, an endearing little dragon, and a hungry wolf in #TheForemothersCafe today. #FolkloreFun #Folklore #Magic

What do you feel when you see it? Our beautiful home. Join us at The Foremothers Cafe on #ENGAGExr at 7 pm Eastern.

A little like Näcken and Rå in one. If you've read my book, The Lure of Water and Wood, you might know what I mean. :)

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Missing #TheGIldedAge tonight? Read #Swedens counterpart. Learn about the women who fought for OUR rights, and the women who had no voice. Meet the women who lived a life of luxury in empty haunted castles. #PeriodDrama #Herstory #HistoricalFiction www.amazon.com/dp/0986266647

I'm excited to moderate this amazing panel next month. Join us at the Book Club Bar in the East Village! @hns-nyc-chapter.bsky.social #HistoricalFiction #SuspensFiction #Herstory

This will be a great event and excellent for authors to help market your work. #HNSNycChapter #Authors

Get to know Sweden's alluring mythological creatures and see what THEY thought of the humans observing and fearing them #Folklore #SwedishFolklore #Wyrd #Rå #Näcken #WitchTrials #SorceryTrials #trolldomsrättegångar youtu.be/VFMuPCPm_wM?...

@livlingborn.bsky.social Hej! Kul att se en svensk folklorist här!

The island Ven (or Hven) is a small island in the sound between Denmark and Sweden. It was created when a lady giant walked across the sound to get better soil from the Swedish side, put it in her pinafore and but dropped some on the way back. #FolkloreThursday

Pride at The Foremothers Café! Join us in about an hour at 5 pm ET. #SocialVR #PrideInVIrtualReality #Pride #HappyPride

It was an honor to have @faithljustice.bsky.social #LorettaGoldberg and #SarahRelyea from @hns-nyc-chapter.bsky.social at #TheForemothersCafe earlier this month and hear them talk about their books and their time periods. youtu.be/LsDNV8vZAak?...

So with the new ruling about religious groups opting out, parents can decide that my little hedgehog who welcomes immigrants with a warm helpful heart is inappropriate because the new neighbors are lesbian. #GLBTQ #SupremeCourt #LBGTQChildrensBooks #Storybooks #StorybooksInSchool

Join our Pride Party at The Foremothers Café on Sunday at 5 pm. Not only is Sunday Pride Day in New York City, but it's also 10 years since Gay Marriage finally became legal in the United States! Come celebrate love with us! On #ENGAGExr #VirtualReality

1/2 Thursday was a particularly scary day. It was Thor's Day you know, and the fact that Karin Persdotter had called for #Näcken on a Thursday was enough to convict her of sorcery. She admitted to it, Näcken came to her like a wave in the water, and then he taught her herblore. #FolkloreThursday

Just a quick reminder that over 80 #HistFic books are #discounted at this promotion including my #LGBTQ #novel Sword of the Gladiatrix. Tons of sub-genre's and times: adventure, romance, thriller, etc. You're sure to find something to your taste. Check it out: books.bookfunnel.com/maydaymayday...

My fellow historical novelist is a guest on this interesting podcast.

We had a wonderful Swedish Midsommar Celebration at The Foremothers Café this weekend!

Today's #LGBTQ boost goes to "Lady" by LCW Allingham. Filled with adventure, illicit loves of many kinds, and strong women of all classes--a satisfying #HistFic read. #booksky #readersky www.mirrorworldpublishing.com/product/lady...

#Folklore #HistoricalFantasy #FantasyNovel #Immortals @threeravenspod.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social @thefolklorepress.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social

Thank you for the share @faithljustice.bsky.social

Here's a fav #LGBTQ 🌈read of mine: The Boy in the Rain by award-winning Stephanie Cowell. "The love is so visceral, the pain so deep, the beauty so real, and the danger so palpable!” —NYT bestseller, M.J. Rose #HistFic #booksky www.amazon.com/Boy-Rain-Ste...

Näcken, loves deeply, dangerously, whether man or woman. Tender until water calls to him. Come too close then and not even love will save you. #HistoricalFantasy #InspiredByRealEvents #Folklore #FantasyReads #FantasyNovels Only 9.99 on Kindle www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKXW59YV

You might not think of The Lure and Water and Wood as a LGBTQ+ Book. Nikolaos, immortal as he is, deeply loves women and has been married to them twice. But there's a twist. Love has no gender. Love is Love. #PrideMonth #QueerLove #BiPride #HistoricalFantasy www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKXW59YV

@folklorethursday.bsky.social #folklorethursday Sometimes Rå looked like a regular farmers wife, but if you looked real close, you might see her tail sticking out from under her skirts. Meet her in my Historical Fantasy, The Lure of Water and Wood. www.amazon.com/dp/0986266663

Join me and the @hns-nyc-chapter.bsky.social at The Foremothers Café in #VirtualReality on Saturday. Message me privately for instructions. I'm offering a practice session tonight at 6 pm for beginners. #VR #TheForemothersCafe #HistoryInTheMetaverse

I concur, don't miss this! #HappyPride #LGBGQ+

1/2 Nikolaos, also known as Näcken, loves deeply, dangerously. He’s fiercely loyal to those he lets close, whether man or woman. Tender until water calls to him. Then the danger stirs. Come too close when he’s near the water, and even love might not save you. #LGBTQLegends #Näcken #MythicQueerLove

I'm excited an honored to have @hns-nyc-chapter.bsky.social at The Foremothers Café to celebrate literature, and to talk about social customs during different time periods, and of course Virtual Reality! #HistoricalFiction #VirtualReality #ENGAGE #TheForemothersCafe

1/3 Wonderful conversation at The Foremothers Café last night about what belonging and women's equity truly means. And just like Hanna, my character who inspired The Foremothers Café in the first place, the fact that her male baker would be willing to work for her, a woman... #Equity #SocialVR

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Join us at The Foremothers Café tomorrow night for what is promising to be an eye opening and important conversation. On #ENGAGE at 7pm. #GenderJustice #Equity

Showing The Foremothers Café at #NYVR last night, talking about how I combine literature with Virtual Reality. #SourMilkInSheepsWool #TheForemothersCafe #WriterInVR

@folklorethursday.bsky.social Thank you for the invite! In Sweden Rå, a mythological creature, is sometimes mistaken for a Scots Pine. People see her deep in the woods but when they get closer they can tell that her back is rough like bark, or she has a dark hole in her back.

1/2 LGBTQ+ books for kids in schools is debated again. Sigh. I'm proud to say that my own children's book is indeed in schools in the state of New Jersey. State is still standing despite it. #LGBTQBooks @georgetakei.bsky.social #Pride

Go Rep. Shri Thanedar!

Like Beecher's Bibles.

On Pope Francis: Chrissy Gulseth, 22 “I remember his first Holy Thursday Mass he washed the feet of prisoners after generations of popes washing only the feet of cardinals and elites. His moral clarity, and the ease with which he lived his values, is inspiring to Catholics and non-Catholics alike.”

I'm humbled and honored to receive a five-star review for my book, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝, from the award-winning playwright and author Daniel Damiano! Thank you Daniel! #HistoricalFantasy #Fantasy #Folklore #FantasyNovel

Looking for a good book this weekend? Look no further. Remember what the women who came before us did for us. #SocialJusticeHistory #WomensSuffrage #ReproductiveRights #PeriodPieces #StoriesThatMoveYou youtu.be/6sEmBec-XkA?...

Fika at The Foremothers Café last week. Deep conversations and friendship. #VR #Immersive #VirtualReality #CoffeHour

Launching Fika for the Swedish Diaspora community. Please join us every other Tuesday at The Foremothers Café! Tell your Swedish friends! On ENGAGE.

Glad to see @nytimes.com talk about Historical Fantasy Novels. Here's mine. @folkloresociety.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social @wyrdfolkpod.bsky.social @hnsnorthamerica.bsky.social #HistoricalFantasy @washingtonpost.com