Autism and fiction aren’t commonly mentioned in the same sentence. It took me some time to realize that there seems these days to be fewer fiction writers in the world who are considered to be on the spectrum.

In the past we’ve seen brilliant writers like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Hans Christian Andersen, Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Janet Frame, and Lewis Carroll described as exhibiting forms of autism. However, they are only described this way in our curren...
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Spirits are traditionally mischievous, daunting, alluring, mesmerizing, and sometimes plain destructive. Beware the spirits of the old forests and rivers. They could be out to get you! Picture courtesy Zena Holloway underwater photography.

Expereince the old spirits in THROUGH FOREST MIST, out October 31 2014!

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The publication date for THROUGH FOREST MIST is Oct 31 2014! Huzzah. Note it in your diary.

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Yag, our beloved spirit of fire is a healer of all things. If you feel a little low or unwell, allow this message to lift and inspire you.



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IT'S NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE! If you purchase a copy to read, please leave a review with Amazon, or visit me on Facebook or Twitter to comment. Enjoy!



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I talk a lot about the magic of doorways in the new book COMING HOME TO THE TREES. We don't realise how much we stir up a whole load of magic when we're walking through doorways all day long in our modern society!

 
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Just three weeks to go till COMING HOME TO THE TREES is published! Not long now to wait. Here's some food for thought!



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Our brothers and sisters, the Horse People have been worshipped and honoured in so many ancient cultures. In my opinion we should all still do that.



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Don't play with fire; honour him! Yag is in everything we use and do in everyday life. He cooks our food (from our cookers), warms us (in our heating systems). He's in our blood when we become passionately involved with things in our lives. Honour Yag, our beloved spirit of fire!



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With just six weeks to go till publication date COMING HOME TO THE TREES: Travelling with the Gypsy Spirit of the Past is looming up very fast. Here's a little snippet from the book.....



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Books 2 & 3 of THE LONG REFLECTION on their way for late 2014: a wealth of Gypsy folklore and myth, following COMING HOME TO THE TREES, June 20 2014.

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Discover what the Gypsy really is and what our culture is all about my e-book, available from Amazon Kindle on June 20 2014. COMING HOME TO THE TREES: Travelling with the Gypsy Spirit of the Past. 



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Someone said to me, write with fire and your readers will read your books with fire. Bring the fiery passion of Yag into everything you do and you'll see results!



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My book's title and publication date is being released very soon. Watch for news!



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Let's remember Yag, the spirit of fire, and how much he helps us to express ourselves artistically, with passion, courage, strength and humour. He is an essential spirit, connecting us with Kam, the spirit of the sun. Without fire in your life, your passion is considerably dulled. 



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We can't be reminded too many times of the meaning of this old saying. You can only ever start out from where you left off! But the good news is that you can start out better, or with a renewed and positive attitude. A good thought for the day I reckon!



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A full moon on Valentine’s Day! Romance in the air! Is this an auspicious omen?

For some of us, yes, for others, no! Shon has all the power if she is full. When she whispers into Kam's ear, she will influence him. Queen of romance, queen of dreams, queen of emotion - which includes water! She is powerful at the moment. When the moon is full there are changes in the air, for the immortals in heaven, and for the mortals here on earth. Expect a change after this full moon!

Ma...

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‘We live within the knots of our tangled dreams, rarely emerging

 from the depths we painstakingly create for ourselves.’

Patrick Jasper Lee, Romani Gypsy Chovihano and author.

In the accompanying photograph I am performing a shamanic healing ritual at The Goddess Show in Brighton, which took place around five years ago. It was a public affair, and although you can’t see them, there was quite a large audience watching the ritual up on the stage. The p...

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Through the narrow slits I saw the shape of a woman forming, the same woman I had seen in the water. I was seeing her more clearly this time. She was extremely beautiful, with big dark smiling eyes, and was covered in colourful veils and coins. I knew she was a spirit because I could see right through her ...

from HORKI'S TALE: BEYOND A NEAR WATER first in the trilogy THE LONG REFLECTION. 
THROUGH FOREST MIST 2nd in the trilogy coming soon!
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‘Take care, tikni,’ said the old Chovihano, ‘the Mulesko Dude (will o the wisp) may be watching you, for we are still within that seam that sits between the old year and the new. Kam, the spirit of the sun, is yet just a baby, and the veil between this world and the next thins and beckons, like a veil floating unnoticeably all around you.

Should your spirit remain strong, however, you may not become enchanted by the lights that hover over marshes, those which haunt the woodlands at this...
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There was a large wood in a beautiful part of the land. And there were two ghosts: one who haunted the first section of the wood where the cars parked, and another who haunted the second section of the wood where the river ran.

And there was also a ghost who was called the Old Gypsy Ghost, who haunted the whole wood.

When the first ghost who haunted the first section of the wood jumped out on people, they did not react. No matter how much noise this ghost made, how much lit...

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Reviews are a heartfelt statement, at least to me, because the words reach other levels...

'... When I learned that he [PJLee] had rewritten some parts [of We Borrow] and also added to it, I knew that I just had to have it.'

'I did not just find it [We Borrow] fascinating because of the content but also because of the lyrical way Jasper writes. His writing transports you to other worlds, both literally and metaphorically.'

'Dare to read this book [We Borrow] and understand what an intricate, edu...
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Most of the time it's all crap. But then there's a little glow of light on a leaf, and life pours back in...

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Imagine living in a world where geometry dominates your life, where squares, circles and triangles form a mental language that you use every day because it provides you with clues about the people who surround you, and what goes on around you in the world. Imagine knowing that everyone and everything you meet throughout the day will be converted to a shape: someone’s hand, a passing bus, a bird in flight. The hand may become a square, the bus a triangle, the bird a circle, an...
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'Our homeland is beyond a great water. Our homeland will be found where we are able to fall off the edge of the land in the place where the sun sits down in the west.'





The forthcoming BEYOND A NEAR WATER, first in the trilogy THE LONG REFLECTION, contains two tales: HORKI'S TALE and RUSLO RUK'S TALE. Iuzio the Immortal begins the story of the journey taken by generations of nomadic Romani Gypsies across Asia on their search for their true homeland: the place where they belong, 'where the sun s...
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We Borrow the Earth and Patrick Jasper Lee are being republished! Ravine Press - thank you. It's been a tough ride for both of us, a journey through thirteen years since its first publication by Thorsons, to its latest publication by Ravine Press. 

The first time round my relationship with this book wasn't exactly a marriage made in heaven, even though I was overjoyed that I was being published. As a fiction writer, it was a challenge to write about my Romani gypsy culture - considering most o...

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