Chapter Ten: It's Today!

It’s Witch day!

These are some things we’ve learned in the last couple of weeks:

• It’s a lot of physical effort to send out books! If you pre-ordered one, or supported us via Kickstarter, it’s on its way. We recycled the boxes they came in for some of the packages.

• The Witch is $24, but we actually priced it a little too cheaply considering how costly it was to print. The most expensive part of any book is the paper, and the Witch has a lot: it’s almost 400 pages long.

We’ve also been chatting about the idea of books with mass appeal and books with niche appeal. The Witch is the latter. It isn’t for everyone, and we want it to be that way. The people it speaks to hear it clearly. Maybe that’s you.

Bibliophilically,

Huw, Rachel, Lara & Rebekah

Here comes the Witch

Thanks to everyone who supported us on Kickstarter: your rewards and books are all on their way. That’s Rachel turning boxes into smaller boxes, and Huw hand-lettering imaginary items, one of our other Kickstarter rewards.

As always, you can buy a copy directly from us right here. And you can now buy the Witch as an ebook!

We can ship books anywhere, but let us know if shipping is unusually expensive to your country, and we’ll do some tinkering to see if we can reduce the rate. (Long story.)

Alternatively, if you’d like to support your local indie bookstore, ask them to order a copy from our distributor, Asterism.

Come and see us IRL!

Many launch events continue over the next month—above is J.M. Sidorova, with unicorn, and Rachel, at last week’s Hugo House industry talk.

Please join us in:

• Seattle, on March 23 at 7pm: Third Place Books, RSVP here

• Seattle again, on April 2 at 7pm: Elliott Bay Books, information here

• New York City, on May 5: Topos Too—more information to come

Fancy a drink?

Bar Cart Bookshelf created a Witch-themed cocktail to accompany the novel—it’s called Tapestry and it’s the colour of blood. The recipe is here. You can watch Bar Cart Bookshelf’s review (and see how the drink is made) on their YouTube channel.

J.M. Sidorova talks about the folkloric inspiration behind The Witch of Prague on John Scalzi’s blog The Big Idea—read it here. The Masters Review describes Sidorova’s use of magic as “fresh”, and interrogates both halves of the novel’s magic-realist themes. World Literature Today is interested in how the Witch examines utopia.

Novel Curations recommends the Witch “especially if you are interested in a novel that actively invites you to engage in interpretation”. We enjoyed how the reviewer contrasted it with other works dealing with the novel’s themes, such as the role of bureaucracy in authoritarianism.

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