Business plan for the last quarter of 2022

My business plan for the last quarter is to publish three novelettes (essays of 10k-15k) showcasing “legal and public relations” issues with my planned autobiography. Please note that I am hoping that my muse and honored dead agree to let me take time off from the autobiography, so that I can do two other cornerstone offerings—one being something ceremonial instruction, the other being science fiction.

The autobiographical material and ceremonial instruction is planned for my Morgan Drake Eckstein brand, along with the stuff that I am labelling Fireside Wicca/ EOEW and the Esoteric Comedy Show.

The reason for publishing a trio of novelettes is to hopefully ease my mind about the need to defend myself while also having some of the major issues with the autobiography looked at by my regular readers. And I do mean “regular readers”; spies and Very Expensive Lawyers are not my target audience.

Well, beyond testing all the restrictions and omissions that three different spiritual communities want.

One of the concerns that I had over and over again during the last three years is how much do I need to defend myself? Do I need to prove that my time doing black magick predated my time in Golden Dawn? And exactly why are the magicks I use—Wiccan witchcraft—subject to the judgement of Holy Christians? Why is magick that’s legal and ethical for a Wiccan to do, unethical and possibly illegal when you answer to Christian officers? Exactly how is a binding spell an attempt to overthrow the American legal system? Are you serious when you say that serial rapists are free to roam as long as the police don’t catch them?

Likewise, having been kicked out of a Wiccan community church that I attended monthly for twenty-five years, how much groveling must I do before the members of the local community admit that I still have the right to do open-to-public rituals and pagan events? Or are all local events going to adopt “Safe and sober”? Exactly how much power can the church board’s emerging Apex Monopoly exercise over the local Wiccan community? Can the board, even with their thirty years of Righteous Service, bring back gatekeeping? Can they really deny half of the local community access to open rituals, without competition arising? As it currently is, I have a few siloed opinions, but they are not my regular fans.

Lastly, or should it be firstly, my biological family, control of which has always been invested in a Family Psychic, demands that I only do those things that a retard can do because their mother said so in 1980.

And if I dare talk about the child abuse today—to shame the Christian family members with my public paganism—well, I complicated someone’s divorce and stole a career away from her, so bombs away!!!

“Gross negligence”—that’s what my sister says that I will be charged with . . . for not reporting my father who died in 1984 for his “so-bad that the one-year old remembers it” child abuse. No other child abuse.

That is why at least three different spiritual communities will have their Very Expensive Lawyers read it.

But here is the thing, the question that I need an answer to: Do my regular readers need any of it?

For instance, the influence of my mother on my blog posts criticizing the actions and decisions of the Great Gherkin Collective is largely unnoticed, for I buried Mom (and her Federal fraud) under a rock.

Yet, my mother is what drove me not only to question possibly-cult leaders, but to debunk psychics.

Do enough of my regular readers, the ones that used to follow my blog, need more of my background?

Or can I skip writing a trilogy of novels (maybe a tetralogy . . . or does it need to be a monthly column)? Exactly how much will my regular readers need to be able to accept the ritual instructional stuff that I have planned? Example: Do you need to know my Golden Dawn experiences to understand my lessons?

Where am I publishing? Not Amazon (long story short, I lost my account to Witch War Lies). So I am using Smashwords to get my stuff published to Barnes & Noble, Apple ebooks, and a few libraries.

Hopefully, I can complete—muse willing—three autobiography novelettes (think longish short stories) by the end of the month, so that I can move onto something that does not drain me completely to write.

Bottom line: I feel the need to defend my good reputation, thanks to three communities exiling me.

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