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Real Witches Take on Hollywood Revealing Their Top Magickal Movies
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In this unique livestream chat format, the Witch’s Movie Coven panel interacts with witches worldwide, fielding comments and answering the question, “What do real witches think of movie witches?”
Joining host and “Good Witch of Hollywood,” Patti Negri (Ghost Adventures) is her panel of real celebrity witches including “The Gentleman Psychic” Richard-Lael Lillard (Ghost Adventures), Courtney Buckley (Scared & Alone), author Jason Mankey (The Horned God) and author-journalist Heather Greene (Lights, Camera, Witchcraft). They convene every Wednesday night at 9PM ET (6PM PT) to discuss the accuracy of witch portrayals in movies from the days of classic Hollywood to modern blockbusters.
The Witch’s Movie Coven was born out of a conversation between Patti Negri and producer Rob Cohen when Patti asked: “Why are there so many YouTube shows around Halloween about Slasher Movies? What about Witchy Movies?” That was all it took. In September 2022, Co-Conspiracy Entertainment created and began producing this unusual and surprising format for witches by witches.
In each livestream episode, Patti, and her coven, along with a curated live chat, debate the magical merits of their favorite witchy movies from “The Witch” to “Hocus Pocus” and pass final judgment. Will it be “wands up” or “wands down?” And like every good movie witch, it all ends with a witch’s “group cackle.”
The Witch’s Movie Coven Top 10 Special will livestream on YouTube at 9PM ET/6PM PT on October 11, 2023. The Witch’s Movie Coven livestreams Wednesdays on YouTube at 9pm ET/6PM PT. The audio versions of previous episodes can be heard on The Witch’s Movie Coven podcast, available everywhere.
Patti Negri – “Good Witch of Hollywood,” author and celebrity psychic-medium Patti Negri can be seen on TV’s Ghost Adventures and YouTube shows like TFIL: Overnight with Elton Castee. Negri is the international bestselling author of “Old World Magick for the Modern World,” and designer of her new line of magickal underwear “Patti’s Power Panties.” She can be found @pattinegri and at www.pattinegri.com.
Richard-Lael Lillard – Richard-Lael Lillard aka The Gentleman Psychic has appeared on Ghost Adventures and paints his way across the United States and Europe on mystic tours. He can be found @thegentlemanpsychic and at TheGentlemanPsychic.com.
Courtney Buckley – Courtney appears as “ghost bait” on the livestream and TV show “Scared and Alone,” and gives witch history tours in Salem, MA. She’s a practicing witch and an avid collector of ethically sourced human remains. She regularly livestreams on her Twitch channel @thefeems.
Heather Greene – Heather Greene is the award-winning author of the book Lights, Camera, Witchcraft: A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television. She is a witch, freelance editor, and journalist specializing in the occult, magic, and witchcraft. Her articles have appeared on Religion News Service, in Religion Unplugged, and The Washington Post. She can be found at www.heathergreene.net.
Jason Mankey – Internationally renowned witch, pagan historian and author Jason Mankey is a third-degree Gardnerian High Priest who co-runs two Witchcraft covens in the San Francisco Bay Area. He writes the popular blog Raise the Horns and is author of nine books on witchcraft and magick. Jason Mankey can be found at www.panmankey.com.
Co-Conspiracy Entertainment – Co-Conspiracy Entertainment develops and produces television, livestream, podcast, and audio content. www.co-conspiracy.tv
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Scottsdale Author Joe Reina’s New Novel Follows a Killer Who Gets Away With It
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Joe Reina has published a new novel, "Shadows over Scottsdale: An Unsolved Murder Mystery," built around a scenario true-crime statistics make uncomfortably familiar: a man commits a devastating crime and simply disappears, leaving investigators and a grieving community with no resolution.
The book follows a character named Robert, who flees the country using forged documents and a cargo ship after an act of destruction that leaves behind, as the publisher describes it, charred remains and an unanswered investigation. The case goes cold. The novel, according to its publisher, is less concerned with the mechanics of the escape than with what happens afterward, to the people left waiting for answers that never come.
Reina, now retired in Scottsdale, spent decades in international business across apparel, footwear, and real estate, with extensive time in Europe and a particular connection to Italy that shaped two earlier books, "The Goat Sleeps in the Kitchen" and "A Love Affair in Tuscany." "Shadows over Scottsdale" marks a different direction, built instead around the real scale of unsolved homicide in the U.S. The publisher’s materials cite roughly 346,000 unsolved homicides since 1965, with more than a dozen occurring unresolved each day. Separate reporting on the book has cited a figure of about 7,778 murders in 2023 alone, which it similarly frames as more than a dozen a day going unresolved.
"Writing ‘Shadows over Scottsdale’ forced me to confront uncomfortable questions about justice itself," Reina said, according to the announcement. "Too many crimes go unsolved, too many families wait endlessly for answers. I wanted readers to understand that behind every cold case statistic is a real story, real suffering, and real questions that may never be answered."
The publisher positions the novel as an examination of institutional limits as much as a crime story: the toll of a case gone cold on the people who can’t move past it, and what it means for a community when accountability simply never arrives.
"Shadows over Scottsdale" is published by Covenant Books and is available in paperback and hardcover through the publisher’s website and major retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple Books.
Cold-case statistics tend to get cited and then forgotten. Studio CarryOnHarry is curious whether fiction built directly around that number does more to stick with a reader than the number alone ever does.
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Joe Reina’s ‘Lost Masterpieces’ Imagines a Fictional Farewell Among Renaissance Painters
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Joe Reina has published a new novel, "Lost Masterpieces: Three Paintings, 500 Years A Journey Through Time," built around an imagined scene from Renaissance history: the night before Leonardo da Vinci leaves for Milan, when three fellow painters each hand him a small work carrying a private message.
According to the announcement, those three gifts come from Sandro Botticelli, Titian, and Andrea Mantegna, each painting standing in for a different kind of counsel. Botticelli’s piece is described as layered with allegory and coded warnings about power and patronage. Titian’s is framed as warm and sensual, suggesting reinvention and a break from convention. Mantegna’s is austere and classically precise, encoding discipline and endurance. According to the announcement, these three paintings form a wordless exchange between masters, transmitting wisdom, mutual regard, and assurance across generations through visual means.
Reina comes to this material from outside the art world. His career was built in apparel, footwear, and real estate development in Chicago, and the publisher’s materials trace his interest in European history, and in Italy specifically, to years of international business travel. He has published several previous books, including "The Goat Sleeps in the Kitchen," "A Love Affair in Tuscany," and "Shadows over Scottsdale," before turning to this account of a fictionalized moment at the hinge of the Renaissance.
"I wanted to capture that extraordinary moment when masters speak to each other across time through their work," Reina said in the announcement. "These paintings represent not just gifts, but a conversation about what it means to pursue greatness while remaining grounded in purpose and principle."
The book is published through Covenant Books and is available in hardcover and paperback, as well as through Apple Books, Amazon, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble.
Studio CarryOnHarry is intrigued by novels that build fiction around real historical figures at a specific, dramatized turning point rather than attempting straight biography — the approach succeeds or fails based on how seamlessly the fictional moment integrates with documented historical fact.
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