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===Other work=== During the 1990s, Yronwode was a staff editor and contributor to [[Rodale, Inc.|''Organic Gardening Magazine'']] and wrote ''The California Gardener's Book of Lists'' (Taylor, 1998). Other subjects she has covered include [[collectible]]s, popular culture,<ref name="msu-y"/> rural acoustic [[blues]] music, early [[rock'n'roll]], [[sexuality]],<ref name="yronwode.com" /> [[magic (paranormal)|magic]], [[sacred architecture]],<ref>"Finding the Unexpected on www.ididn'tknowthat.com", ''The New York Times'' (newspaper), July 21, 1991</ref> the worldwide use of charms and talismans, African American [[Hoodoo (folk magic)|hoodoo]], and other [[folklore]] subjects. She runs the websites luckymojo.com, herbmagic.com, southern-spirits.com, and missionaryindependent.org, which deal with these and other topics, including comic books. She is the co-proprietor, with her husband Nagasiva Yronwode, of the Lucky Mojo Curio Company, an occult shop, spiritual supply manufactory, book publishing firm, and internet radio network for which she writes, edits, and produces graphic label art. She is on the board of the Yronwode Institution for the Preservation and Popularization of Indigenous Ethnomagicology (YIPPIE), a 501(c)3 not-for-profit foundation that archives the material culture of 19th and 20th century folk magic and divination. Since 2006, she has been a pastor at Missionary Independent Spiritual Church. Under the imprints of the Lucky Mojo Curio Company, Missionary Independent Spiritual Church, and YIPPIE, the Yronwodes edit and publish books by a variety of other authors as well as their own works.<ref name="wicker" /><ref name="long">Long, Carolyn Morrow (2001) ''Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce''. University of Tennessee Press. {{ISBN|1-57233-109-7}}</ref><ref name=WSJ>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703989004575653102537901956|title=Need a Job? Losing Your House? Who Says Hoodoo Can't Help? Tough Times Boost Sales of Spider Dust, Spells for Good Fortune, Mojo Powders |author=Cameron McWhirter|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=December 28, 2010 |access-date=2010-12-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.luckymojo.com/publishing/ |title=Books Published by Lucky Mojo Curio Company: Lucky Mojo Curio Co. catalogue |work=luckymojo.com |year=2015 |access-date=17 October 2015}}</ref> Extensive interviews with the Yronwodes can be found in Christine Wicker's survey of early 21st-century magical practitioners, ''Not in Kansas Anymore,''<ref name="wicker" /> and in Carolyn Morrow Long's academic history of 20th-century occult shops, ''Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce''.<ref name="long"/>
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