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Author Cafe (SiriusXM Book Channel) audio interview (55:30 min)“Interview with Katherine Neville, David Baldacci, and Daniel Stashower” SiriusXM Book Channel: Author Cafe Katherine Neville, David Baldacci, and Daniel Stashower David Baldacci, Daniel Stashower and Katherine were invited by the producers of SiriusXM’s Book Channel, Kim Alexander and Maggie Linton, to be their guest

MomCentral interview with Katherine Neville“International Best-selling Author Katherine Neville Captivates a New Generation”October 27, 2015 International Best-selling Author Katherine Neville Captivates a New Generation   A jewel-encrusted chess set once owned by Charlemagne. Two young nuns embroiled in the French Revolution. An American computer expert assigned to a high-stakes

Prague: The Holographic Paradigm In June of 1992, Karl Pribram and I were on a 16-hour train trip from Karl Jung’s remote center, Eranos, on Lago Maggiore in Switzerland, where I’d been doing research for my book The Magic Circle (in which Jungian archetypes play a great role.) We were headed to Prague, where Karl was to speak at a huge Transpersonal Psychology conference. The conference had

Today, when we use the word “myth,” we often mean something that isn’t true, something that has been fabricated to deceive others. But the myths that have come down to us from ancient times have deep roots and hold a magical significance that still flourishes in our own lives today. The word “mythos” in Greek means story or speech. Myths exist in every culture in the

A big chunk of the research for The Magic Circle is related to what today is modern Turkey, a land where, in ancient times, so many major literary and historical events took place. Katherine beneath the ‘new’ Trojan Horse: Troy, Turkey Turkey was the home of King Gordius, whose Gordian knot was later cut by Alexander, opening the western route into Asia, and also home to Gordius’

Snake River, Idaho I first got the idea of writing The Magic Circle while living in Idaho, where I’d moved in 1978 from Colorado to work with people from many different countries and cultures, all involved in energy research and nuclear safety. I was living in a tiny, furnished flat on the second floor of an old-fashioned building in Idaho, overlooking the Snake River. It was just after a sp

This essay was published in Troika Magazine, Fall 1998. Click article image to enlarge (typed version below). My Secret Spain by Katherine Neville My first exposure to Spain took place in the early 1970’s, when I was living in North Africa as a consultant to the Algerian government. This period would later provide fodder for my first book, The Eight, an epic story based on a 200-year-long gl

Katherine in Red Square, Moscow, Russia Just after editing The Magic Circle, I made a quick trip to Moscow where 850th birthday celebrations were still underway. The city was festooned with posters of St George, their patron saint. I felt this was an omen, because though St George does not appear as a character in The Magic Circle, his presence is there through his channeling of earth’s ener