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The deep roots of the lotus stretch and reach to the bottom of the waters, while the floating flower retains a serene sense of beauty and symmetry.

Silvia Foti is a writer, lecturer, and creativity coach. She lives in Chicago on the Southwest Side. She's been running her own freelance writing business since 1998, writing for a variety of publications and websites.

She became a "double-life creative," a phrase she invented to signify the life that many creatives lead. During the day, she has a "real" job as a journalist, and during the night she has a "dream" job as a creative writer. She is launching a mystery series based on the characters found in her first mystery novel called Skullduggery. It's about a journalist on the South Side of Chicago who investigates occult matters for Gypsy Magazine whose motto is "To Pierce The Veil of Death." The series follows the Major Arcana of the Tarot cards, and the next is "The Diva's Fool."

Silvia is a strong believer in good writing and understands the power of the written and spoken word. She's a proponent of writing Morning Pages and taking long walks, but she learned her craft of wielding the word through the route of journalism. She's an organizer of Love Is Murder, a mystery writers conference in Chicago, and currently president of Chicago Sisters in Crime, a group dedicated to helping and promoting mystery authors, and it's not just for women anymore.

THE DIVA'S FOOL
ISBN 13: 978-1-59080-506-0

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Echelon Press Publishing

THE DIVA'S FOOL
Zero in the Order of the Tarot Chronicles

On the night of her final performance, Opera Diva Carmen Dellamorte, famous for her passion of Tarot cards, staggers onto the Chicago Lyric Opera House stage and dies. Is it the curse of Macbeth or a malevolent plot to dethrone the queen?

Alexandria Vilkas, Chicago reporter, does more than write about the supernatural. She peeks behind the veil of death to investigate murders of the paranormal, and solving the mysterious death of a Diva is the first step on her journey.

Around the world, enthusiasts and masters of the Tarot look to these popular cards for guidance and divination. The deck begins with The Fool, representing the Uninitiated Person beginning a journey consisting of twenty-two phases, each coinciding with the archetypical characters and themes of the Major Arcana, otherwise known as the Greater Secrets.

Reviews:

"Reporter Alexandria Vilkas is off and running again, investigating a murder mystery that makes for one hell of a wild night at the opera." –Michael A. Black, author of Melody of Vengeance

"A magical world where the paranormal proves more powerful than traditional crime solving methods…a fun-filled story with plenty of action and vibrant characters. The Diva's Fool is witty, suspenseful and an all around terrific read!" –Scarlett Dean, author of Invisible Shield.

"The Diva’s Fool casts a powerful spell impossible to break until the last page is read. Magical, yet grounded in reality, the book takes the reader behind the scenes of Chicago’s Lyric Opera, into the mysterious realm of the occult and the gritty world of gunrunning. New Age reporter Alexandria Vilkas is a fearless, enchanting, and believable detective of the paranormal. I want more of her." –Gail Lukasik, author of Destroying Angels

SKULLDUGGERY
Order of the Tarot Chronicles

ISBN 13: 978-1-59080-506-0

Reporter of the supernatural, Alexandria Vilkas, launches a feature on Crystal Skull, but is skeptical of its metaphysical powers--until the Chicago mayor dies in her arms. Now the prime suspect in his murder, Alex needs to clear her name, fast. Along the way she begins to suspect her own mother, discovers a cigarette-selling scam that's making some city alderman rich, stumbles into some bad shenanigans in a tortilla factory, and gets attacked by a lovelorn astrologer. Meanwhile a knockout brawl among the town's fifty alderman erupts in downtown City Hall and Alex desperately wonders if she'll be alive for the next mayoral election. Can she unearth the connection between Crystal Skull and the murder before it's too late?