Dear readers,

I have temporarily hung up my beekeeping hat for writing. Perhaps it was the bees themselves, or the Bee Goddess, who guided me during those dark COVID years of hopelessness and fear. When the whole world shut down and I was no longer needed in the workplace, I fled to a tiny house in Llano, Northern New Mexico, where I sat by a fire and set my pen to the page. What poured out was a story of a young girl, coming of age, who encounters the life affirming spirit of the hive as she struggles to find her way in her despairing and traumatizing world. It is my first juvenile fiction novella under my pen name A. Fisher, and part of a trilogy for the rites of passage of girls/women—maiden, mother, crone. The second will hopefully be coming out in 2024, entitled The Bee Priestess: Return to the Mother’s Heart.

As one reader review writes: The Bee Priestess is a story of hope and resurrection. Oppressed by her family and society, Althaia Adamos is healed through a sisterhood of priestesses and Mother Nature herself. The reader is taken on a remarkable journey through first century Greece as Althaia develops her gifts as healer, beekeeper, and doctor of herbal medicines, finally embracing self-love–and her lost love.

Since mythologically, the bee hive symbolizes resurrection and new life, fertility and springtime, it is only fitting that the protagonist, Althaia, rises from the ashes of her existence into a life affirming world of her own creation.

You can find the book at Amazon. This holiday, it will be the perfect gift for any young, middle age or old person seeking healing and a life-giving way forward in these difficult and challenging times we live.

Thank you for continuing to stay tuned to the hive mind, and I hope you have a blessed bee holiday season!