Today's guest is Edward Dodge. Edward is now on virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book and is the author of the mythology book, A HISTORY OF THE GODDESS. Edward will be answering 20 questions about his life, writing and goals. If you have a question for the author, leave it in the comment section and don't forget to pick up a copy of his fantastic book!
1. Are you a morning writer or a night writer? I write best in the afternoon, and will keep on working into the evening when I am inspired.
2. Do you outline or are you a pantster? Outlines for sure.
3. Which comes first – plot or character? Character
4. Noise or quiet when working on your manuscript? Generally pretty quiet.
5. Favorite TV show? Game of Thrones, and the Expanse were the last shows I loved.
6. Favorite type of music? Funk, Rock, Reggae
7. Favorite craft besides writing? Exploring, wandering
8. Do you play a musical instrument? No, sadly
9. Single or married? Divorced
10. Children or no? yes
11. Pets? Not at the moment, but I am a dog person.
12. Favorite place to write? At home at my desk.
13. Favorite restaurant? Taquerias
14. Do you work outside the home? Yes, I work in the solar power industry.
15. What was the name of the last movie you saw? Its been a while since I saw a movie in a theater! Probably the last Star Wars movie.
16. Favorite outdoor activity? I love camping, hiking, boating, biking, and generally being outdoors.
17. Pet peeve? Liars.
18. Your goal in life? Take care of my kids, live life to the fullest, hopefully make a contribution to the world.
19. Your most exciting moment? I have had a lot of adventures. When I was 18 my brother and I spent the entire summer on a sailboat. We got in trouble one night off-shore with mechanical failures and had to May Day the Coast Guard. It was stormy and nerve wracking and we were up until dawn, but we managed to fix the boat and call off the rescue, and that was very cool.
20. The love of your life? My children
Edward Dodge is a clean energy developer and writer from Washington D.C. with degrees from Cornell University. He studied the history of cannabis which provided the origins of this book.
You can visit his website at www.historyofthegoddess.com and his blog at https://edwarddodge.substack.com.
You can visit his YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCewtIeQPSqOxs25IP0Np6g
Title: A HISTORY OF THE GODDESS: FROM THE ICE AGE TO THE BIBLE
Author: Edward Dodge
Publisher: Trine Day Books
Pages: 472
Genre: Mythology / Religion
BOOK BLURB
This book explores the Goddess worshipping traditions that were always a part of human spirituality but were eliminated in the Bible on the path to monotheism. There is an unexplored narrative in the Bible, the early Israelites were pagan and God had a wife, her name is Asherah and she appears many times in the Bible. The Earthly Mother and the Heavenly Father were the original gods far back in history and they got a divorce in the Old Testament so that God could rule alone. But the Earthly Mother never went away and we can follow her traditions through Christianity and into the modern world.
The religious wars of the past that eliminated these women-led Goddess religions are directly reflected in today’s culture wars where the secular left is struggling to break free of the moral dictates of religious conservatives. In the Goddess temples of antiquity, we see unbridled feminism, egalitarianism, nature worship, sexual freedom for women and gays, cannabis and sacred plants, transgendered people as high priests, even abortions. The world today is in flux and many people are rediscovering the Feminine Divine, she is an important part of our collective experience.
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