i dont know about her rep in the witch industry, but she used to be a singer in a surfie band that had some chart success ,one of their albums had a sheet of purple oms for cover art, as was the style of the day
ie plastikman-spastik album, i don't think
it generated much attention though, so she pursued a solo career as an author [good or bad ?haven't looked] ,but most importantly she jumped onto the media machine with witchcraft as her prop, or perhaps she used magic to get on the media machine ?