New from author and designer Amanda Hughes! This definitive source for writers on how to use tarot cards to build story, plot and character... and so much MORE! MYSTIC STORYTELLER is a 500-page book with its own tarot deck — Art by Roz Kazaz
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“This book is like an MFA with a minor in tarot, the perfect companion for writers and readers alike. A must-have addition to every writer or tarot reader's bookshelf."
— Theresa Reed, author of The Cards You're Dealt - How To Deal When Life Gets Real: A Tarot Guidebook
"Mystic Storyteller: A Writer’s Guide to Using the Tarot for Creative Inspiration is a timeless resource for storytellers and tarot enthusiasts alike. Each chapter takes readers on a thoughtful journey guiding them in the practical and magical ways to use tarot to help develop characters, strengthen plotlines, and enhance creativity."
— Shannon Knight, author of Tarot & Self-Discovery and host of The Tarot Diagnosis podcast
“This is a detailed guide on how to use tarot cards in your creative endeavors, complete with activities, examples and understandable explanations. You don’t need to have experience with tarot. You just need access to a deck of cards."
— Lisa Valentine, paranormal romance author and tarot enthusiast
“While specifically targeted toward writers, the Mystic Storyteller book includes a remarkably comprehensive guide to tarot divination, appropriate for any tarot beginner or tarot enthusiast who wants to deepen their practice... Any writer interested in tarot, and any tarotist interested in writing, will love the Mystic Storyteller."
— Christiana Gaudet, author of Tarot Tour Guide: Tarot, The Four Elements, and Your Spiritual Journey
“The combination of rich historical context, clear and engaging instructions, stunning artwork, comprehensive card meanings, divination glossaries and keywords, deep symbolic interpretations, and versatile creative tools makes this book a must-have for anyone looking to enhance their creative journey through the magical lens of tarot. Whether you are aiming to craft your next bestselling book or the story of your life, this book is a powerful and beautiful instructive tool that reminds you of the magic you hold within.”
— Connie Diletti, writer, filmmaker, and executive producer of Inside the Wooniverse podcast with Colette Baron-Reid
The tarot is a collection of stories, and Mystic Storyteller: A Writer’s Guide to Using the Tarot for Creative Inspiration was designed to teach writers how to use its stories to craft their own.
Writing is a magical venture, and the tarot is a mystical vehicle that can help guide the imagination and strengthen the craft of storytelling. Writers are creators of ideas, lives, and entire worlds, and those who intuit stories through the magic of intuition and creativity are mystic storytellers.
The tarot is an amazing tool to assist the writer in world-building
With the help of the tarot, mystic storytellers can develop every character who first appears as a hint, shape storylines, build worlds, and turn any idea into a bestseller-worthy page-turner. Tarot cards can also help writers unearth meaningful self-discoveries, shovel compelling ideas into plot holes, chisel away at writer’s block, and even stake out an entire novel or fiction series.
Mystic Storyteller functions as a reference manual, workbook, and storybook all-in-one. As you work with this guide, you will uncover insights, instruction, and activities designed to help you employ the tarot for:
Enhancing creativity
Strengthening writer’s intuition
Inspiring ideas and composition
Improving storytelling proficiency through building confidence and encouraging authenticity of voice and style
Nurturing rich character- and world-building practices
Whether your first or fiftieth, your next story is WRITE in the cards!
Mystic Storyteller functions as a reference manual, workbook, and storybook, and its companion tarot deck was crafted to inspire you to pen your own. With original illustrations by artist Roz Kazaz, this beautiful tarot is radically modern, inclusive, and well.... mystic.
Important: this artwork is hand made, not AI-generated nor AI-enhanced. Please take a stand against AI-generated decks by supporting living artists and writers :)
The symbols and colors in the MYSTIC STORYTELLER are inspired by the Rider-Waite-Smith
The most famous tarot deck in use today is a deck first published by the Rider Company in 1909, based on the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, nicknamed "Pixie."
Because this deck is so well-known and well-used, it makes a great model upon which to learn the basics. However, it is over a hundred years old, and as such, lacks diversity and can be... well, kind of hard to relate to. We decided to have a whole new tarot made with writers in mind.
Our King of Cups is a veteran of the Marine Corps, and the cup he holds is for coffee.
Our Pentacles suit employs writing tools, rather than coins. Notebooks, iPads and more.
This 500-page, eight-part textbook contains everything a creative like you might need to use the symbology, imagery and correspondence of tarot cards to help you craft your project. Whether you have a novel, a screenplay, a memoir or even a Broadway musical, this book has instructions to assist you.
Part One: Let’s Get Started The introduction, a brief history of the tarot, and some insight that might be new to you if you are just getting started with tarot cards
Part Two: Mystic Storytelling How the cards can be helpful to your creative practice, as well as how other writers in history either used them or were inspired by them
Part Three: Getting Acquainted with the Tarot Practical details around handling the cards, working with spreads, reading intuitively, and card reversals
Part Four: The Tarot Files A thorough examination of the Major and Minor Arcana, as well as practice activities involving the suits, numbers, and Court cards
Part Five: The Tarot Code Lessons on symbolism, archetypes, numerology, and astrology interwoven throughout the tarot, and then an expansion to personalize it into "your tarot code"
Part Six: Writing from Within Learn to infuse more mystic intuition into your storytelling practice as you use the cards to map a memoir, plotting and character development with the cards
Part Seven: The Tarot Games Practice activities and tarot spreads you can use for plot development, writing dialogue, and even fleshing out fictional family systems
Part Eight: Appendix Reading lists, references to sources, and notes
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This #WriterWednesday It’s the classic Celtic Cross tarot spread, but with storytellers in mind. Download your free resource, The Writer’s Cross, and use the spread to work through all your writerly dilemmas.
Week 4 Card to Motivate and Inspire
Knight of Pentacles – Think about a time when you had to be extremely careful completing a task but doing so made all the difference to your creativity. How can you replicate that feeling this week?
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If we reach $17K in funding, then this project gets approved by BackerKit and we can indeed print and manufacture these products, thanks to your help.
But if we can get extra funding beyond that, it means a few things: • We can add quality and details to the products • Our author and artist get more profits to help support their endeavors • We are freed up to make more fun stuff to thank you with — like a bonus card!
Once we receive funds, we still have approximately 10-12 weeks of work to complete, before sending the files to manufacturing. Post-production, proofreading, and manufacturing take approximately 8 weeks after that, and freight to our location takes about 30-40 days. Fulfillment of all rewards takes about a month, in our experience. Add that all up and we are estimating rewards to ship in March 2025.
Note this is a product that is scheduled to hit shelves officially in Fall of 2025, so as Backers, you're getting your copies very early.
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