Just a quick update to say that Apprentice Witch is only 99 cents and the sequel Artisan Witch is $1.99 until Friday September 12th.
Next Monday, September 15th, will be the release of book 3 in the series, Historian Witch, just in time for Halloween! I worked really hard on this book to make it especially epic, and I hope you’ll all like it too. This one is a big save-the-world adventure with history, Arthurian mythology, and a hint of romance.
I also have a new bonus short story that ties into book 3, which is free to read if you join my newsletter. This one has vikings wielding Excalibur to fight an army of vampires!
Not only that but this Sunday June 14th, the second book Artisan Witch comes out! It is available for pre-order now.
Here are some fun facts about this book:
1. The plot is very loosely based upon a real life murder that I found in a book of true crime stories from my local area, True Crimes From the Past: Kent by W.H.Johnson.
2. The sub-plot of a corrupt journalist was inspired by my very brief former career in journalism (suffice to say, I was not good at it).
3. The art collector character Robert Holburne is named after a real art collector of the same name. I used to volunteer at a museum in Bath which holds his collection. If you’re ever in Bath, I strongly suggest you visit, although like I depicted in my book, the real life Robert Holburne wasn’t a great person, as his fortune came from owning slave plantations in the Caribbean.
4. When writing this book, I did a substantial amount of research into Welsh mythology, which I then ended up completely deleting from the book.
5. The villain is loosely based upon someone I used to work with (I won’t say who, but they’re never going to find out anyway…).
6. The jerk art history professor is also based not so loosely upon a creative writing teacher I had at university who once spent half of the lesson lecturing us about how none of us would ever write again. Turns out he was wrong about that…
7. I included Canterbury Christ Church University as a location in the book, and only found out recently that my sister got a job there!
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J.A. Arundel 