The Writing Community Chat Show · Christopher Aggett

Ciara Blume Interview | Bestselling Cozy Fantasy Author on Midlife Creativity, Indie Publishing & Natural Magic.

August 30, 2025·1 hr·4 clips

Ciara Blume's Johns Hopkins professors told her happy endings were not real art and she should go into advertising — so she did, and spent two decades unfulfilled.

Friday opens with the usual friendly shuffle: hellos, comments, a check-in with Chris, and the very relatable problem of too many books arriving at once. A golden package gets everyone talking. That easy start matters, because the interview keeps moving between ordinary writing chat and stranger, more personal ground. The guest talks about signs that repeat. Seeing the same face three times becomes, for her, a signal that something is trying to get through. The hosts do not overplay it. They lean into the goosebumps, but they also ask a practical question: does seeing those faces mean she has to speak to the person in front of her? The father-in-law story is the one that sticks. After his sudden death, the guest says she kept seeing him and felt he had a message for her husband. Her husband is deeply logical, which makes her pause before saying anything. She asks for something undeniable. A password. While shopping, she sees a military-looking T-shirt with the word troop, receives a number with it, and calls her husband with the message. She sounds a little stunned by it herself. The story is more than a spooky aside, because she is already working that kind of experience into a book. The warmth stays intact. Nobody turns the moment into a debate. The hosts give it room: wonder, magic, grief, and the odd ways personal experience can turn into story material. By the end, they point listeners toward Supernatural Travel Tales, thank the guest, and leave on a sweet nudge for more people to write magic and build little free libraries outside their houses.

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A loose, friendly chat where paranormal stories feed the writing life.

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