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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Sanctuary Times
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Saturday, October 15, 2022
Yikes! It looks like I forgot to announce here the publication of Spirits, Spells, and Storytelling: 13 Days of Hallows the Old Mermaids Way. The 13 days begin October 21 and go through November 2nd. I'm not sure you could get the paperback in time for October 21st this year, but you could easily get the e-book.
Here's from the back cover: Join Kim Antieau and the Old Mermaids for their annual celebration of all things wild and marvelous with 13 days of beauty, meditations, food, creative prompts, myths, magic, and Old Mermaid tales. All designed to celebrate Hallows/Samhain the Old Mermaids way.
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Sunday, September 11, 2022
The Second Book of Old Mermaids Tales is Published!
I am thrilled to announce the publication of The Second Book of Old Mermaids Tales, a book 11 years in the making! It's filled with short tales about the Old Ems and the Old Mermaids Sanctuary. And it includes an introduction written by Mario Milosevic.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The Annotated Church of the Old Mermaids
Church of the Old Mermaids celebrates its fifteenth birthday with a brand new edition of this beloved novel. A glorious celebration of life, love, friendship, and the power to change, Church of the Old Mermaids challenges us to find the good in others and ourselves. This edition is fully annotated by Kim Antieau and Mario Milosevic, illuminating the sources of the Old Mermaids and bringing new understanding and depth to this classic novel of souls adrift seeking a secure shore in a world of peril and uncertainty.
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Sunday, September 12, 2021
The Old Mermaids Wisdom Cards & Guidebooks
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Sunday, August 1, 2021
Magic, Myth, and Merrymaking: 13 Days of Yuletide the Old Mermaids Way
This is one of my favorite projects ever. It's gorgeous, and we had so much fun creating it. You get Old Em stories along with tips on how to celebrate and live the Old Mermaids ways plus Mario Milosevic wrote 13 poems for the book.
From the back cover: "Join Kim Antieau and the Old Mermaids for their annual celebration of all things wild and marvelous with 13 days of beauty, meditations, recipes, creative prompts, myths, magic, and Old Mermaid tales. All designed to usher in the New Year with joy, creativity, and love. (This color edition is designed as a small beautiful gift for yourself, your family, and your friends: everyone in your life who appreciates beauty and celebration. A more economical black and white print edition is available as well as an ebook edition.)
It's available as an e-book, too, and there's also a black and white version. Just click on "see all formats and editions" to see it if you're on the color link.
P.S. Amazon is having trouble with its "view a sample" feature, by the way, but it should be fixed soon, we hope. And if you don't want to buy through Amazon, you can get it through any other e-book store or any indie bookstore via Ingram. The black and white version is more expensive through Ingram.
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Saturday, May 29, 2021
All three Whackadoodle Times novels are now in one volume: Whackadoodle Times Galore. You can get the ebook or print copy through Amazon or any of your favorite bookstores.
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Monday, November 9, 2020
The Old Mermaids Mystery School is Now out as a Book!
Are you feeling overloaded? Surrounded by chaos? Or maybe you’re no longer sure what your purpose is. Perhaps you’ve never known. In a world of noise and chaos, The Old Mermaids Mystery School offers simple steps to connect with Nature, our true selves, and each other.
In Mystery Schools from ancient times, the Mysteries were based on ideas that were hidden in plain sight. So it is with The Old Mermaids Mystery School.
When the Old Mermaids walked out of the Old Sea and into the New Desert, changing their fin-ware into skin-ware, they brought with them not only their beautiful magical selves but entire skill sets which enabled them to thrive in their new and changing world.
Now their unique, practical, mystical, and poetic ways of being in and connecting with the world are here in The Old Mermaids Mystery School, a 13-Mystery self-directed program to help you explore ways to swim, walk, and dance with beauty, joy, and authenticity through all the days and nights of your life.
Each Mystery in The Old Mermaids Mystery School features the wisdom of one of the Old Mermaids. You won’t find any dogma, religion, or exams here. Instead, revel in each of the 13 Mysteries, revealed to you over time, taking you from Sister Sheila Na Giggles’s practical steps on being in the here and now to Sister Faye Mermaid’s “The rest is mystery.”
The Old Mermaids offer you peace and sanctuary and a chance to thrive no matter where you find yourself in your life’s journey.
You can get it at Amazon or at any of your favorite bookstores.
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Saturday, September 26, 2020
Whackadoodle Times Three
Brooke McMurphy's infamous and bawdy adventures come to a conclusion in this poignant and funny third book in the Whackadoodle Times series. From the cover: Disasters both natural and unnatural plague Brooke during the week she must deliver the script for the latest installment of her zombie movie franchise. Epic lightning storms strike the landscape, her intimate life is made public, her daughter may be trying to ruin her, she discovers she has no place to call home, and she finds solace in an old friend: the bottle. As her life melts down, with no prospects for relief, Brooke turns to the one thing that has any possibility of saving her: her epically dysfunctional disaster of a family. It's available as an e-book at your favorite e-book stores and on Amazon or through your local bookstore. Here is the Amazon link for the e-book and print version.
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Kim and Mario Build a Labyrinth and So Can You
We moved to cherished land in 2019, and one of the first things we did was to build a full Chartres-type labyrinth in the bullpen in the Big Corral. It was one of the most rewarding experiences of our life. Mario did the figuring which was absolutely essential. We've documented how we did it in Kim and Mario Build a Labyrinth and So Can You, so you can do create own. Plenty of photos and diagrams to help you out.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Killing Beauty
Years before these murders, a young woman was raped and murdered in the forest. The young man who did the killing said something just came over him, and he had to rape and murder her. To me, that is absolutely terrifying. Could that really be the truth? I talked to people in my town who knew the kid. Apparently he was known to torture and kill animals. But no one had done anything to stop him? That was stunning to me.
When I was a teen growing up in Michigan, a classmate of mine was murdered. She was someone I admired immensely, and I learned of her death when I was babysitting and listening to the news one night. Bill Bonds mispronounced her name and described vividly how she had died. I almost lost my mind. I ran around the house trying not to scream. The world tilted. And I don't think it has ever untilted. I phoned my dad, and he came and sat with me until the parents of the children I was babysitting came home.
I believe murder and other acts of violence and betrayal can affect communities for decades, maybe forever. I think these events reverberate through time and space, perhaps. In any case, I wanted to write about how these acts of violence can affect the individual and the community. In Killing Beauty, the town is dying. Which came first: the violence or the end of a viable community?
I hesitated to write this book for a very long time. I didn't want to do anything to exploit someone else's tragedy. I didn't want to "cash in." Then one day I talked to a friend of mine about my reluctance. She said, "Kim, it happened in your community, so it happened to you, too. You get to decide how to deal with it." I knew she was right. Of course I had a right to figure out how to deal with it. Writing fiction is how I do that. So I wrote Maternal Instincts, the first part of this book first, as a standalone novel. Then I wrote Beauty Falls and realized it was all one novel.
I wrote Killing Beauty from the viewpoint of a retired cop, Katie Kelly. She was part of a group of teens who went out to the woods one night, and one of them was killed. Katie lived the rest of her life trying not to think of that night—and trying to keep everyone she knows or meets safe. And she has esssentially kept life at bay. And then one day, everything begins to unravel for her and her community, Beauty Falls.
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Monday, December 10, 2018
Answering the Creative Call Workbook
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Sunday, September 16, 2018
The Old Mermaids Oracle
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Thursday, June 28, 2018
Kim Antieau Photography
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Sunday, September 17, 2017
The Old Mermaids Datebook 2018
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
15 Tales by Mario Milosevic
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The Salmon Mysteries Workbook
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Monday, April 10, 2017
My Photography
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Thursday, April 28, 2016
Stepping Out and In
Aahhhh.
Most days, I stepped onto the trail at a nearby refuge.
Why? Why? Why?
Ugh.
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Monday, February 1, 2016
Queendom: Feast of the Saints
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