Indigo

[cornerofmadness]

Indigo is a rich color that is associated with a variety of things including: magic, experience, truth, dignity, virtue, dreams, profanity, inferiority, imagination, luxury, wisdom, spirit, destiny, elegance, intuition.

The world is full of magic things,
patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper —W.B. Yeats

I'm going to launch right into this because today was as depressing and boring as yesterday and no one needs that.

dreams. I have weird ones (just check my 'these dreams' tag) I'm not sure I put much stock in dream interpretation via the books. I think it's far more individualized than that.

As for magic, I've been interested in magic, druidism, wicca etc since the 80s. Have I see magic? I've seen patients survive when they shouldn't have? This past week I saw a comet not seen in the heavens in 6800 years and tonight I saw the triple conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto thanks to a friend's timely post. I have touched ancient Neolithic cromlachs and felt the hum of the stone. I've seen the enigmatic smile of a cat. I have written a 1000 words in a half hour and they were good.

This is all magic. I believe in weirdness and badness too after an event in 1992 after which I've had nothing but bad luck (don't believe me there's over a decade of this journal take a look). I've had psychics and witches tell me I was cursed. Some days I can believe that.


I was talking to evil_little_dog about Indigo trying to think of fannish things. She pointed out that blue jeans were originally made with indigo (which could be a fatal process). I don't however think jeans when I think indigo. Plants, yes, Indigo buntings yes, jeans no (also not a giant fan of them anyhow). I've already used Roy and Riza's blue uniform and then she and I were talking my new potential cover and it hit me, MANY of my book covers have indigo as I love blues and purples.

The cover that reminded me of this was Modified and Sacred I love my cover for this and just how well this novella did in spite of it not really having a 'romance' cover. I made a nice chunk of change from this (and still can, this p ublisher actually pays me)

And here. are all my covers. My Soldiers of the Sun series have indigo uniforms (I still love this series even though it sold like crap. I do need to get my rights back to this) I feel the same way about Blood Red Roulette which has a kicking cover (and went over like a lead balloon in spite of being vampires in Vegas, another one I want the rights back for)

SO I'm a fan of my covers.



Basically just this morning glory at my parents' place which I think is beautiful