Astrology Advice | Dreams | Medium

I had never encountered anything like it  when I first began writing my novel,  The Crystal Ball,  in 1989. I was still learning a lot about writing, and my book and I suffered from genre confusion. I didn’t know if  The Crystal Ball  (then called something else) was a romance, a mystery or some kind of yet-to-be-defined metaphysical and literary variety show. Looking back on the original manuscript, it was a cross between a Janet Evanovich/Stephanie Plum novel and a Harry Potter book for grown-ups—grown-ups who wished they could live forever in a Fantasyland called San Francisco. Mostly, it still is, throw in a lot of basic 101 presentations on metaphysical topics. I should add; it’s way more grounded than it might first sound. In the intervening years, however, composite genre novels that feature astrology and other metaphysical tools have started to crop up more often. When I began  The Crystal Ball,  I had just fallen in love with Chiron, ...