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Jillian A

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in New York City, The United States

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Jillian is the author of The Chicago Coven Trilogy, an urban fantasy series based on a coven of witches living in contemporary Chicago.

In 2008, she learned that her family was descended from some of the earliest recorded witches in medieval England. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells of the Ægleswuore clan who practiced the pin-pricking of totems, a form of magic forbidden at the time. After being found guilty of the crime of witchcraft, the Ægleswuore matriarch was put to death by drowning at London Bridge.

Captivated by this ancestral lore, Jillian started researching the history of witchcraft and its transcendence into modern day times. She did not travel far down this winding, mysterious path before her imagination began to weave the plot f ...more

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A dog is the only creature on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. ~Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)

When I was 5 years old, our neighbors brought home a fawn pug puppy named Tiki. To say that I instantly fell head over heels in love is an understatement; I was obsessed. I could literally spend hours running up and down the length of the fence between our properties, listening t

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“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: be-yourself, self-expression

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“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

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“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: foreshadowing, macbeth

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“Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world; now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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