Jamie has edited and published over twenty anthologies, organized multiple ebook bundles, and has participated in numerous bundles and anthologies created by other intrepid organizers. She publishes under her own press, Blackbird Publishing, as well as under Borogrove Press, which she created with DeAnna Knippling and Tami Veldura. She's also a member of the Uncollected Anthology, an urban and contemporary fantasy author collective. Jamie created a publishing management software tool, Inkwren, which was inspired by her need to keep track of a zillion publications, stories, authors, and tasks.

In her fiction, Jamie writes stories where magic lives just beneath the surface—where ghosts haunt houses that no longer exist, selkies are stranded far from the sea, and witches discover their power one herb at a time. Her work blends folklore, emotional depth, and a deep empathy for characters navigating impossible choices. She lives in Colorado, where her two border collies are still waiting for her to get them a proper herd of sheep.

Rosemary for Reversal by Jamie Ferguson

It's never too late to discover your magic.

Boulder, Colorado, has everything from amazing restaurants to street performers to gluten-free, well, everything. But there's one thing it doesn't have: an apothecary like mine.

The Rocky Mountain Sunshine Apothecary (whew! that's a mouthful!) has everything from Astragalus to Zedoary and is nestled next to Pearl Street. Lots of foot traffic. It used to be a general store, and it still has the mahogany wood counter, which I have spent days sanding and polishing until it glows.

Besides herbs, recipes, tinctures, soaps, essential oils, bath salts, potpourri, candles, books on herbalism, comfy chairs, and more shelves than a library, the Rocky Mountain Sunshine Apothecary has me, Laney Gibson. I woke up one morning and said, "I don't like my life anymore."

And I decided to do something about it.

One divorce, new house, and job change later, here I am, right before opening day, with ten thousand more things to do, two employees who already had vacations scheduled the week before opening day, a weird compulsion to introduce people to each other when I know the perfect person for them to meet, and a cousin named Shannon who desperately needs to stay at my house for the week but won't tell me what's going on, other than that she wants to visit—after not really speaking to me for, oh, twenty years.

To make things even worse, I think my cat Albert likes her better than he likes me.

And…

…she thinks I'm a witch.

I mean, she's probably wrong. But don't let that stop you! I'm sure it's perfectly safe and my shop is super-easy to find.

Just look for the big honeylocust next to the side street off Pearl, and stop by today!

CURATOR'S NOTE

In Rosemary for Reversal, by Jamie Ferguson, forty-one-year-old Laney Gibson has a special talent: she knows when to introduce people to each other. She's kept this a secret her entire life, and is happily focused on getting ready to open the herbal apothecary in Boulder, Colorado that she's dreamed about since she was a kid. But when her cousin Shannon shows up for a short visit and announces that Laney is a witch, things start getting complicated... – Jamie Ferguson

 
 

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