When your book gets published, you give the editors your completed manuscript and wait-wait-wait for them to return it with their edits. When they do, you get to make all kinds of changes. For me, that process is like this: Then….the book goes back to your...
Hey!!!! Look!!!!! It’s Winona Ryder playing me in the new Netflix horror series: 3rd Round Of Edits On Courtney’s New Book. via GIPHY If writing is where you dig deep into the tombs of your creative potential, dig it all up, and throw it at the...
Six years ago, when I started working on Tarot of the Boroughs, I heard rumor of another Tarot project with a very similar principle: The Urban Tarot. I was immediately impressed with the artwork. My deck was tough enough to do with photography (and I wasn’t even the...
Ah…when the scrappy little up-starts get a mention by the big dudes! In 2010 the deck I produced and designed, Tarot of the Boroughs: a modern Tarot deck based in New York City featuring original photography by George Courtney, was released! Today, it received a...
Here’s what I’m reading!!!! North Asian Magic: Spellcraft from Manchuria, Mongolia, and Siberia by David Borji Shi So far, I’m having a blast with it. I just finished The Bone People by Keri Hulme. My thoughts: An unbelievably beautiful book. A slow...
A few years ago, when I left a job, I pulled Tarot cards for all of my colleagues as a farewell gift and pasted them on thank-you cards. One of my supervisors, a devout Jewish woman, got the Queen of Cups. When I listed some of the qualities (loving, caring,...
