Sad boy summer is BACK BABY! Happy sprayed edge, bronze-foiled Barnes and Noble paperback exclusive day to ASCENSION, the second book in my queer urban fantasy quartet, The Summoner’s Circle.
The quartet follows David, a psychic Boston lawyer, his lovers-to-exes-to secret society rivals-to lovers arc with his sorcerer ex-boyfriend Rhys, and his yearny supernatural “what are we” with Rhys’ astrologer wife, Moira, as they all work together to break a demonic curse. As the world expands and the relationships get hotter and more complex, the trio finds themselves embroiled in magical dangers and why choose mess aplenty.
If you love Constantine, Supernatural, Ninth House, non traditional relationships, tarot and astrology, soap operas, Catholic guilt (horny) and Catholic guilt (sad), and bitchy little blond men, this series is for you!
support sorcerer rights - and wrongs
The first two books EVOCATION and ASCENSION are out now, alongside the illustrated prequel novella ODD SPIRITS which can be read at any point in the series, with final books DIVINATION and TRANSMUTATION to come!
And there are NO CLIFFHANGERS between these books! I wrote them like season installments of a paranormal TV show; so don’t be afraid to start now even though the series is still running.
The very first signed paperback exclusives await you at the Barnes and Noble in Louisville, Kentucky! The team was sweet enough to let me sneak in the day before release to gaze lovingly at my terrible boy Rhys and take some glamour shots.
grab your special edition paperback!
For my British baddies, don’t forget that Waterstones still has exclusive signed hardcover editions of ODD SPIRITS, EVOCATION, and ASCENSION with sprayed edges, foiled boards, a red ribbon bookmark, and a very emo alternate colourway for ODD SPIRITS.
deal with devils with evocation
I’m thrilled to announce that we are taking Sad Boy Summer on the road! My beloved west coast readers, who I have never been out to see once in all my five years in publishing: I’m coming to you this time.
San Diego, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, and Seattle, please save the date for your tour stop and start assembling a witchy or sorcerous outfit! I’ll have event ticket links for you soon, but I just couldn’t resist telling you that your supplications and spells have worked - you summoned me!
Even better, the wonderful team at Angry Robot have created some STUNNING tour stop swag for you, including a bound booklet of a 25 page sneak peek at DIVINATION featuring the very first look at Moira’s cover art. She’s so beautiful I could sob; that’s wifey!!
I hope you’re reading good books and eating good food and soaking up all the sun you can like beautiful lizards this week. If you’re a Summoner’s Circle fan, thank you so much for the way you love these characters. The fandom around this series is such a gift and a joy to me, and exactly the sort of thing I dreamed about when I was scribbling stories in my composition notebooks in high school instead of paying attention to the teacher.
I’ll be back later in the month with a new podcast episode with Maddie Martinez and more essays, so make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss it!
Be safe and well until we two meet again!
-S
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