Attending ALA MW Seattle in January? Don’t miss Mallory O’Meara (The Lady from the Black Lagoon, Hanover Square, March 2019) and other fantastic authors at the LibraryReads Author Breakfast at the Sheraton on Monday, 1/28 at 8:30 am. Be sure to RSVP by January 7! For more details, click here. Don’t wait until ALA MW to preview Mallory’s book! The Lady from the Black Lagoon is available for request now at (read more…)
Kirkus just crowned Hannah Capin’s DEAD QUEENS CLUB [Inkyard Press, January 2019]–a Riverdale-meets-Heathers feminist retelling of Henry VIII and his wives, narrated by Annie Marck from Cleveland, aka “Cleves”–with a starred review: “Witty narrator Cleves is a feminist force, lambasting slut-shaming and calling out her female classmates’ internalized misogyny. Readers who like mapping real-life figures onto fictional counterparts will read with Wikipedia open … So much fun.”—Kirkus, starred review Dead Queens Club (read more…)
No matter where you stand on the recent Charmed reboot, we guarantee that we have many a diverse tale here to please every witchy fan–and the reviews agree. Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft [Harlequin TEEN], edited by Tess Sharpe and Jessica Spotswood, just racked up its third starred review, this time from Publishers Weekly. Read the complete review, here! “[A] provocative, eclectic collection.”–PW, starred review “This powerful (read more…)
We were delighted to find that Flickerwix has produced a beautiful collection of candles inspired by Laurie Forest’s The Black Witch Chronicles. From the woodsy essence of the Ulrich Twins to the cedarwood scent of dodgy Lukas Grey, there’s a fragrance here for every BWC fan. (Personal favorite–no surprise that the Yvan candle is infused with a delightfully spicy scent.) Check out Flickerwix’s full collection here!
Milicent Patrick was one of Disney’s first female animators (if not THE first female animator) and created one of the world’s best known classic movie monsters, only for her work to be credited to—and essentially eradicated by—a man. The Lady from the Black Lagoon [Hanover Square Press, March 2019] is Mallory O’Meara’s enthralling true-detective story chronicling her mission to uncover Patrick’s history and restore her to her rightful place in (read more…)
