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Teaching creatives how to make evergreen content for discoverability, engagement and building authentic community

Deep Roots, Dark Forests explores the unseen, the unnoticed, and the uncared for in our lives. It's the simple everyday things that are the most fascinating - the flowers, the forest, the decaying architecture in an old Southern town. It's the silent, quick blooms of an azalea, the big, pure magnolia blossoms, and the wide roots of a live oak that capture the attention here.

It’s what we don’t know that really scares us, or so 12-year-old Claribel finds out when she enters Waywardly Hall - a house full of impossible things and odd little orphans. Even with all its creepiness, it’s what Claribel did to get there that really haunts her. All she can think about is the tap, tap, tapping of her foster parents locked in their closet.

Chivalry isn't dead. The enchanted woods lured Guinevere into its embrace all of her teen years. It held her whole heart until the night it introduced her to Arthur.

While some are nestled cozy in their traditions, others are lost in darkness. An unkindness of ravens lurk like a warning above them while they try to escape their inner demons and fight the dragons they've been trying to avoid. There's no enjoying fatal amounts of pie because their minds are slipping, slipping into a twisted delusion. They are the murderers, the disturbed, the unfortunate, and the misunderstood. These outliers are imprisoned by their circumstances until they slowly fade into the icy landscape, smothered by the forged façade of a perfect Christmas.