If interested, there is a giveaway on Goodreads for 100 ebook copies of THE WITCH’S LENS, the first book in The Order of the Seven Stars series. The last day to enter is October 28, 2023.
Good luck!
The Witch's Lens on Audible
Audiobook fans of my previous novels may notice there is a new narrator for The Witch’s Lens on Audible. Please meet Gail Shalan, an actor, award winning audiobook narrator, and puppeteer!
Check out The Witch’s Lens on Audible!
And, as always, when you buy the ebook version of the novel on Amazon you can add audible narration for $1.99 in the US.
Happy witchy season! ✨🍂📚🧙♀️
Publication Day for The Witch's Lens!
The Witch’s Lens, the first book in The Order of the Seven Stars series, is out!
Petra is a young newlywed living in Prague in 1915, and for the last ten years she’s given up using her magic, afraid of being discovered for who she really is. But after her husband goes to war, she gets recruited to join a band of misfit witches tasked with ridding WWI’s eastern front of its curses before the fallout spreads beyond the battlefield. Of course, things are never as straightforward as they seem as Petra and the others get drawn into a tangle of intrigue and betrayal. Soon, events force Petra to confront her painful past and reconnect with her lost magic…but there’s always a price to pay.
Thank you for reading!
Bookmail!
Hungarian copies of The Glamourist (book two in The Vine Witch series) just showed up. I love seeing the foreign copies. While most publishers have chosen to retain the original cover, they frequently add new details to the chapter headings to make them special. So beautiful. ❤️📚✨
Another Trade Review for The Witch's Lens!
Thank you to Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association, for their wonderful review of THE WITCH’S LENS!
And thank you to all the Amazon Prime readers who’ve downloaded and reviewed the book so far during the First Reads pre-publication promotion!
“The Witch’s Lens launches Smith’s (The Raven Song, 2022) newest historical urban fantasy focusing on Petra Kurková and a team of witches who are recruited to combat undead at WWI’s eastern front. When the countries went to war, their magic users went with them, unleashing vile forces that mortals cannot fight on their own. Petra, whose husband, Marek, enlisted without sending home his wages, is scraping by doing tarot readings for her landlady and others, using any extra cash to fund her photography habit that allows her to see souls of the dead on film. This and her other long-suppressed magical abilities lead to her recruitment by the mysterious Josef Svoboda, a mortal who is fighting a terrible curse. Teamed with witches who either avoided the wartime draft or were rejected by the military, Petra is forced to reexamine the limits she has placed on her own magic as she stumbles through encounters with other occult foes. Smith’s thorough descriptions make this first novel in the Order of the Seven Stars series an immersive experience for readers.”
— BOOKLIST