Jodie has written for magazines and newspapers, published poetry, and her articles have appeared in all the major astrological journals. The Sky We Share and The Single Sky , a joint project with Alphee Lavoie's AIR Software. Jodie also manages the Forrests' website. Her M.A. with highest honors in French and a minor in Spanish, from UNC-Chapel Hill, has proved invaluable to her research. While striving for as much historical accuracy as possible, her first aim is to enthrall readers with a crackling good tale.
Fantasy can do just that, while subtly addressing archetypal human themes.
Jodie founded Seven Paws Press in 1995. Seven Paws Press will publish a new, expanded version of Steven and Jodie Forrest's synastry classic, Skymates , in late 2001. Jodie and Steven have formed a band, Dragonship, which performs Steven's music around Jodie's narration from her novels of the Norse and Celtic peoples, and their corresponding higher universes of Elves and Norse deities. Steve and Jodie sometimes wonder if this is a new art form. Jodie's own late ninth-century Tomas, a bard who gradually learns to become a Mage, is half Norse and half Welsh.