Updated October 2026
I sat down one evening and tried to reconstruct a list of everything I had written and published over the years. This is still not a complete account. There were contributions to gaming, science-fiction and fandom ’zines, small publications and other places whose names have slipped away from me. Some of the work has survived. Some has not.
That is what happens when you move three dozen times in forty years, survive a few floods and a rodent infestation or two in the storeroom, and experience the inevitable computer failures and hard-drive crashes. Archives, apparently, require rather more cooperation from the universe than mine have received.
What follows brings together the publications I can remember, contributions to other people’s books, articles, poetry, short fiction, and the books and other projects now taking shape. It is a living list, which I will expand as more pieces surface and more manuscripts become books.
Books, anthologies and contributions
How the Devil Got His Horns, and Other Tails
Published in 1975
A collection of poems and stories from my childhood, including the tale of the night the Devil appeared in my closet and told me the true story of his “Fall from Heaven”. When my grandmother learned of this, she gave me Very Good Advice on how to Question Spirits as to their Identity, should something like that ever happen again.
This is the book I most regret no longer having. My only copy was destroyed when my parents’ storeroom flooded in 1978, while I was overseas in the Navy. Lost with it were years of personal correspondence and magazines and journals that are now long out of print.
In March 2020, I began trying to reconstruct as much of the collection as I could. Some of the poetry is lost forever; other pieces survive in diaries and journals.
Wicca Covens: How to Start and Organize Your Own
By Judy Harrow · Citadel · Edition listed: 1 December 2000
I served as an additional consultant for this book.
Which Witch Is Which?: A Concise Guide to Wiccan and Neo-pagan Paths and Traditions
By Patricia Telesco · New Page Books · 1 November 2004
Contributing participant.
Keepers of the Flame
By Morganna Davies and Aradia Lynch · Hampton Roads Publishing · Edition listed: 1 November 2006
I served as an additional consultant for this book.
View the book at The Witches’ Almanac.
The Small-Town Pagan’s Survival Guide: How to Thrive in Any Community
By Bronwen Forbes · Llewellyn Publications · 8 September 2011
Contributing participant.
Reflections in Diana’s Mirror: A Devotional for the Queen of Heaven
Edited by Jonathan Sousa · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 25 March 2015
My contribution, “Now and Always, Mine: A Reflection on Being a Child of Diana”, appears in this anthology.
The Witches’ Almanac
My contributions to The Witches’ Almanac included individual articles and the continuing column “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”.
Spring 2006–Spring 2007
First printing: January 2006 · Witches Almanac Ltd.
- “Tiresias, the Theban Seer”.
Spring 2007–Spring 2008 — Issue 26
Published 31 October 2006 · Witches Almanac Ltd.
- “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” — continuing column.
- “The Buzz on Honeybees”.
- “The Eleusinian Mysteries”.
Spring 2008–Spring 2009 — Issue 27
Published 31 October 2007 · Witches Almanac Ltd.
- “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” — continuing column.
Spring 2009–Spring 2010 — Issue 28
Published 31 October 2008 · The Witches’ Almanac
- “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” — continuing column.
Articles, essays and ritual writing
Earlier publications
- “Pan’s Pipings: On Morris” — a four-part series published in The Georgian Newsletter, July–October 1979. Reprinted in Pentalpha Journal; reprint date unknown.
- “Words, and Other Useless Things, like Deeds, or Reclaiming the Present” — The Georgian Newsletter, December 1985. Co-written with Scarecrow. Part of a series that appeared sporadically between 1976 and 1990. As pieces are recovered, I may bring them together in a collected edition.
- “Rite of Purification” — a ritual published in The Crystal Well, Volume 14, Number 2.
- “The Use of Color in Magic” — Co-written with Arwynn MacFeylnnd in 2001. Originally published as “The Basics of Magick: Color Magick” in the November 2001 issue of Echoed Voices, an e-magazine that is now defunct. Revised and expanded in 2016.
Witchcraft, divination and folklore
- “Holy Water” — 2015.
- “Witch Bottles: A Nesting Concept” — 2016.
- “Uncrossing and Unhexing: Some Notes and Comments” — compiled on 26 September 2016, coincidentally the feast day of San Cipriano di Antiochia.
- “An Exploration of the Symbolism of Colors and Numbers in Medieval Tarot” — Undated.
- “Unveiling the Mystical: Divination and Folklore Customs of October” — 2023.
- “Introduction to Historic Tarot Decks” — 2023.
Essays and posts on Substack
- “I Am the Law”: Echoes of Absolutism from Versailles to Washington — 2025.
- “Welcome to My Corner” — 2025.
- There’s actually considerably more there tha just theetwo pieces. I’ll edit with a more oplete bibliography in the near future.
Short fiction, flash fiction and fanfiction
Some of these are stories in miniature; others have rather more room to wander. There are drabbles, song-inspired pieces, folk tales and fanfiction here, alongside the beginnings of longer journeys. Most, if not all of these, and more are posted to my Archive of our Own (AO3) acount.
- “I’ll Tumble for You” — a Harry Potter drabble/flash-fiction piece. 2003.
- “Spirits of the Past” — Harry Potter fanfiction. 2003.
- “Au Clair de la Lune” — a Harry Potter fanfiction novella/songfic. 2003.
- “Tabula Rasa” — a drabble/flash-fiction piece. 2006. Also posted to AO3
- “A Meeting of Minds, or The Rules, Explained” — a drabble/flash-fiction piece. 2007.
- “Behind the Wall” — short fiction inspired in part by a song, written during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Exact date unrecorded.
- “A Song of Alegria” — songfic. 2023.
- “Siúil a Rún: A Folk-Tale of Love, War, and the Waiting Heart” — songfic. 2025.
- “Hubris” — a dictionary drabble/flash-fiction piece.
Poetry
Poetry has accompanied me through much of this: love poems, devotional poems, grief, indignation, and the occasional refusal to be quiet.
- “Hiraeth” — 2003.
- “The One of Whom I Dream” — 2005.
- “A Balbale to Suen (Sîn, Nanna)” — 2023.
- “A Psalm of Righteous Indignation” — 2023.
- “Hekate, Mistress of Keys” — 2023.
- “The Dagdha and the Morrighan” — 2023.
- “Hail, Brigidh” — 2023.
- “Leto Avenged” — 2023.
- “A Eulogy for Eurydice” — 2023.
- “Goddess Diana” — 2023.
- “Arawn, Sovereign” — 2023.
- “In Heaven’s Heights” — 2023.
- “Imprecato Against the Shadows of Oppression” — 2023.
- “For Katrina” — written for our forty-second anniversary. 2023.
Fiction forthcoming, in progress, and ready to publish!!
My fiction has grown considerably since I first assembled this list. What began as individual stories has become an interconnected body of work about families, memory, survival, secrets, and the lives that continue beyond the endings history gives them.
Different lives. Shared humanity. Stories worth telling.
Ashleigh Renée writes queer stories of love, loss, resilience, and belonging—where found families flourish, forgotten voices are heard, and those who have been cast aside reclaim their place in the world.
The Roots & Echoes Saga
The saga follows connected lives across generations, from ancestral roads and inherited stories to the upheavals of the twentieth century and the families who carry those histories into the present.
The following titles are forthcoming or in development. Dates shown are planned publication dates; working titles and arrangements may evolve as the manuscripts develop.
Roads and Song
- What the Roots Remember
- The Fair at Miskolc — set in 1812.
- The Fire on the Hill Road
- The Blacksmith’s Son
- Prelude to a Nightmare
The Dream That Carried Us
- Rachel and Miriam
- Kristallnacht in Jihlava
- Unseen — planned publication: 7 April 2027.
- Unbroken — planned publication: 30 August 2027.
- Unbound — planned publication: 10 September 2027.
- The Dream Takes Root — planned publication: 24 December 2027.
What the Storms Washed Up
- Secrets and Love
- Of Love and Legacy
- Tu es foutu — planned publication: 30 April 2027.
- Leaving Asheville
- Where the Quiet Begins
- After the Storm
The Road Continues: Life with Riley
- Surprise!
- The Dreaming Child
- Where the Bones Lie
The Road Continues: The Eld Island Mysteries
- Marina
- Good Bones
The Eld Island stories bring those family histories into a murder-mystery series set on a fictional island in Puget Sound. Good Bones, the novel that started this particular tangle of stories, is nearing completion.
Other fiction in development
- Deliberate Decisions — Mira and Tae’s story, beginning with their first contact through Discord and their first week of messages.
Non-fiction and other works in progress
Alongside the fiction, I continue to work on material about witchcraft, religious practice, tarot and storytelling. Some projects are further along than others; these remain works in progress rather than scheduled releases.
- The Story in the Cards — a book about cartomancy and the stories we find in a reading.
- “On the Witches’ Mark” — an article in progress.
- Traditionalist Witchcraft: A North American Primer
- So You Want to Read Tarot
- Tarot by the Numbers
- A number of rado articles on Tarot and cartomancy that get posted i arious plaes: Substck Medium, Facebook, YouTube, or even here sometimes.
Still scribbling
When I first put this list together, I thought it did not seem like very much, considering that I had been scribbling on pads of paper since I was at least ten.
Looking at it now, I suspect I may have been a little unfair to myself.
There are still missing pieces, unfinished manuscripts, stories waiting their turn, and characters who appear to believe that my having other things to do is no concern of theirs. I will add to this page as I recover older work and bring the newer work into the world.
Different times ~ same human hearts.
Ashleigh Renée
Links are provided as a courtesy. I receive no gratuity or remuneration for them. Historical publication details are retained from my records.
