The Mystery!
Quick updates for y'all:
1: I finished my mystery novel and sent it off to my agent, so yay! I hope it’ll find a publishing home soon. I’ll be working on a short story for an anthology next, in addition to writing my next Atticus & Oberon story for paid folks at the end of the month.
2: Holy cow, there’s some good TV right now. Andor! Murderbot! I love that the flashes of Sanctuary Moon inside of Murderbot feature cameos from big-name actors who are usually in movies. Now they’re in a space opera wearing ludicrous, fabulous wigs. Hope you’re watching it.
3: I’ll be traveling to Nova Scotia in July and I’m trying to arrange a signing somewhere—either New Brunswick or PEI, perhaps. If I manage to get something scheduled I’ll definitely holler.
4: The warblers have returned! Wanna see one? Spotted him near the St. Lawrence River.
Reading some great stuff right now. This first one is for a blurb because the book doesn’t come out till October, but can I just urge you to preorder it now? Because it’s super fun and nerdy about books and magic and ravens and basically I am simultaneously delighted by it and jealous that I didn’t write it.
Witches of Dubious Origin
Zoe Ziakas enjoys a quiet life, working as a librarian in her quaint New England town. When a mysterious black book with an unbreakable latch is delivered to the library, Zoe has a strange feeling the tome is somehow calling to her. She decides to consult the Museum of Literature, home to volumes of indecipherable secrets, some possessing dark magic that must be guarded.
Here, among their most dangerous collection, the Books of Dubious Origin, Zoe discovers that she is the last descendant of a family of witches and this little black book is their grimoire. Zoe knows she must decode the family’s spell book and solve the mystery of what happened to her mother and her grandmother. However, the book’s potential power draws all things magical to it, and Zoe finds herself under the constant watch of a pesky raven, while being chased by undead Vikings, ghost pirates, and assorted ghouls.
With assistance from the eccentric staff of the Books of Dubious Origin department—including their annoyingly smart and handsome containment specialist, Jasper Griffin—Zoe must confront her past and the legacy of her family. But as their adventure unfolds, she’ll have to decide whether or not she’s ready to embrace her destiny.
This next one I’m reading is spookier—long anticipated and every bit as great as I expected. These things are real—staircases exist in northeastern forests without any houses around them, just freestanding stairs, and why would anyone build a staircase to nowhere and wait WHAT IF IT GOES SOMEWHERE YOU CAN’T SEE
The Staircase in the Woods
Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what.
Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere.
One friend walks up—and never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears.
Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared. Now the group returns to find the lost boy—and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods. . . .
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