What was your research like for this book? But other aspects (Pamela’s age when she might have had her first psychic episode, her time in Jamaica, and her sailing to London with the Lyceum Theatre in 1900), are true to her age at the time.
Magician and Fool is what I would call “Alternate History” in that I take some of the events, such as the death of a character, and postpone it by three years so that Pamela can interact with him. I’m glad she thought he was a real character though! Satish is my version of Ira Aldridge, a Black American-born British actor, playwright, and theatre manager, known for his portrayal of Shakespearean characters, who died in 1867, thirty years before Satish appears in my series.ĭoes this book stay close to historical accounts of these individuals and events? I did gently remind a friend who was doing a shout-out to all the famous friends of Pamela Colman Smith that one of them she was acknowledging, Satish Monroe, was made up for my book and not an actual friend. Are any of your characters not real figures in the historical record?Ī few of my characters are mashups of real-life people. Many works of historical fiction provide a list indicating which characters are historical and which are imagined. Greer’s book, Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses, that I had any understanding of a magical society called the Golden Dawn in Victorian London. There was a pamphlet inside with a little of her life’s story but it was only after reading Mary K. Since high school, I have been interested in tarot cards but I wasn’t familiar with the creator of the deck, Pamela Colman Smith, since her name wasn’t on the Rider Waite tarot deck. What first drew you to the subject of this circle of followers of the occult? How would you describe your book in a few sentences?Īs the gifted young empath Pamela Coleman Smith gathers inspiration to create a unique tarot deck for theexplorers of the occult known as the Golden Dawn, magic simmers and rivalries reach dangerous heights. Her first book in a series, Magician and Fool: Book One, Arcana Oracle Series is published today by SparkPress. In London, she has lectured at Watkins Books and at Atlantis Books and has presented at the Occulture Berlin Festivals. As a co-chair with the NYC Chapter of the Historical Novel Society, she helps produce monthly online book launches and author panels. Susan Wands is a writer, tarot reader, and actor who graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in theater and women’s studies and has acted professionally across the United States and on Broadway.
Launch: Susan Wands’s Magician and Fool: Book One, Major Arcana Series
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