Cynthia with Susan Wands, writer, tarot reader, and actor.

For thirty years, she works as an actress on Broadway, in films, regional theatre, and an off-Broadway troupe Rumble In the Red Room where she performed her own material. Her adaptation of Pride and Prejudice was performed at the Cornish Institute in Seattle Washington and new works at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she was a company member. A co-chair with the NYC Chapter of the Historical Novel Society, she helps produce monthly online book launches and author panels.In London, she has lectured at Watkins Books for their Recorded Authors series, at Atlantis Bookshop and Watkins Books in London, and lectures at the Occulture Berlin Festival on tarot. Ms. Wands’ writings have appeared in Art in Fiction, Kindred Spirits magazine, and The Irving Society journal, FIRST KNIGHT. Some of her podcast interviews include: ‘Morbid Anatomy’, ‘Biddy Tarot’, ‘Imaginary Worlds’, ‘Bad Ass Bitches Tarot’, and the “Catching Up With” on The Hermit’s Cave YouTube channel. Susan’s first book in her series about Pamela Colman Smith, Magician and Fool, Book One Major Arcana Series, will be published by SparkPress in 2023. The second book, High Priestess and Empress will be published by Spark Press in 2024, and Emperor and Hierophant, the third book in the series, is in final edits. Susan is currently petitioned the English Heritage Organization to dedicate a blue plaque on Pamela Colman Smith’s London birthplace and looking forward to celebrating Pamela’s natal home.