There's magic in the world . . .
If you know how to look
Morgan Grey
WELCOME
I'm an author, a shamanic practitioner, crafter, lover of animals, and homesick Alaskan.
Look below for info on my novel in progress:
A Selkie Story.
I've long been fascinated by the folklore of the selkies--seal folk who can shed their skins and become human, and have collected many of the old, old tales.
Check the blog for writing updates and old folktales about selkies, And sign up for my newsletter for occasional special offers.
Morgan's Books
Work in Progress:
A Selkie Story
The sealwoman statue in Mikladalur,
Kalsoy, Faroe Islands.
Legends of the sealfolk, or selkies, are spread across the North Atlantic from Scotland to Iceland.
My Selkie Story takes them to
20th
Century Alaska.
Image Credit: "Seehundfrau in Mikladalur" by Siegfried Rabanser is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
A Selkie Story is a grounded retellingof folklore about the selkies--
who are both seal and human.
Gordon's wife Meryl has been keeping a secret. When she says she's a selkie and she's going to Alaska to find her long-lost sealskin, he fears for her sanity and sacrifices his engineering career to keep her safe. His rational mind finally embraces Meryl's truth, but learns that if she finds her skin, she might put it on an return to the sea.
In Meryl's childhood home on a remote island in Alaska's Prince William Sound, Gordon discovers the community and extended family he'd longed for as an orphan growing up in foster care.
Then all that he loves is threatened by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.
Follow me on the story's development journey.
Books in Development
The Ringwomen
Winter Sleep
On a planet with three moons and seven rings, some women can channel the mysterious power of the rings. Lia feels that power rising in her body. But the practice is banned in her home region. with her trained hawk as her only companion, she must undertake an arduous journey through the Shadowlands to find the remaining Ringwomen.
Humans hibernate through the long winters on their planet, until they are endangered by new arrivals.
Published
What do you get when you mix the jaded and irrepressible humor of a wild lesbian linguist and the magical sensibilities of a radical lesbian witch who are making it in a strange world called Lincoln, Nebraska?
What you get is a pantheon of 'new' goddesses who reveal themselves in a spirit of love and fun to these two visionaries! The goddesses range from the practical Asphalta, the Goddess of Roads whose influence can materialize a parking space, to the newly named Goddess of utmost glee and laughter, Hilaria, who certainly gave her blessing to the creation of this wildly funny book. This collection is one way to radical transformation, with much love a laughter in the process.
Joy Harjo
What Readers are Saying
Found Goddesses gives the lie to all who say that feminists have no sense of humor.
Johanna H. Stuckey
Found Goddesses gives me laughter and hope.
Myra on Goodreads
Found Goddesses is wonderful! All of it's funny and some of it's inspired.
Joanna Russ
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