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Where Writing Meets Spirit

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PUBLISHED WORKS

MY POETRY JOURNEY

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On Sale Nov. 7, 2025

Step through The Purple Door and into a world where shadows whisper, ravens watch, and a woman learns to become her own kind of magic.

In this spellbinding poetic journey, the reader follows a girl who once hid in the woods, uncertain and unseen, as she transforms-through heartbreak, darkness, love, and awakening-into the woman she was always meant to be. Each chapter marks a sacred passage: from the innocence of youth to the fire of self-discovery, from the depths of despair to the quiet peace of becoming whole.

Told in lyrical verses that read like modern incantations, Shel Chrisco writes of the wild, the wounded, and the reborn. Her words trace the moon's phases of a woman's life-the waning of innocence, the waxing of wisdom, and the radiant fullness of self-acceptance.

By the final page, the witch no longer hides in the shadows. She wears her black hat like a crown, sits before her purple door, and dares the world: "Try and come for me."

This is not just a poetry collection.
It is a resurrection, a reclamation, and a reminder-
that magic has always lived in you, too.

About The Author

Shel Chrisco has been writing poetry for most of her life, quietly weaving words into spells long before she ever dared to share them. Her magic is stitched into every line and shadow of this debut collection.

Wife, mother, and grandmother, Shel walks a path of mystery and wonder, often found wandering old cemeteries, reveling in Halloween's chill, or delighting in the macabre and strange. Her husband-also a poet-shares in her love for the written word and the enchantment of the unusual.

Her debut novel, The Purple Door, became her ritual and her therapy, helping her shed the skin of a shy, meek child and step fully into the dark, wild force she was always meant to be. These pages hold her journey-a spiritual and witchy awakening captured through poetry and prose.

Follow Shel at @shelchriscopoetry on Instagram and Facebook.

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Coming 2026

Blacklisted: A Survival Story Told Through Poetry and Prose

 

Before there was light, there was the darkness that tried to bury her.

Before there was magic, there was the girl who had forgotten her own name.

Blacklisted is the story of a woman who gave everything, her youth, her voice, her soul, to a love that became a prison.

It is a journey through fear, silence, and betrayal; through addiction, violence, and survival.

It is the voice of a mother who fought back, the woman who ran, and the witch who rose.

Told through raw poetry and prose, this collection is not just a story of escape, it’s a resurrection.

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