Book release party! Ann Aguirre's THE HOCUS POCUS HANDBOOK

Schedule

Sat Sep 05 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00
Location

Tropes & Trifles | Minneapolis, MN

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Come see Ann Aguirre in conversation with Z.M. Celestaire!
About this Event

Join us to celebrate the release of , by Ann Aguirre! Ann will be joined in conversation by Z.M. Celestaire, author of .

Ticket cost includes a $10 coupon to use in store at the event.

Event conversation will be followed by signing with both Ann and Z.M. Copies of both authors' titles will be available for purchase on-site. (You may also bring from home.)

If you have your heart set on specific additional titles by either author, it is ***highly encouraged*** to preorder copies to be sure to have the specific one you seek!

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About THE HOCUS POCUS HANDBOOK:

From NYT bestselling author Ann Aguirre comes a cozy fae fantasy romance featuring a sunshine-shadow slow burn, a grumpy-but-secretly-tender love interest, an unforgettable found family, and a world lush with wildcraft magic. Perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher and Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries.

Thea Winter didn't choose to be a changeling ― stolen from the mortal world as a baby, raised in the wildlands by a hobgoblin named Mudge who taught her everything worth knowing. How to read the weather in a crow's wing. How to barter with brownies. How to stay alive in a world of capricious fae courts. What Mudge couldn't teach her was how to stay out of trouble. Which is why she's entangled in a objectionable marriage of convenience.

Or would be, but her spouse bolted. Now she has to hunt down Devan J. Fenelon, but she's been saddled with a taciturn, humorless hunter known as Winter's Hound. He answers only to his cousin, and she's not looking forward to this quest at all.

Kerboros has survived the Winter Court by being exactly what they made him: relentless, invisible, and careful never to want anything at all. His life is an endless series of ceaseless commands from his reprehensible cousin, Lord Liskaal. Since his father's failed rebellion, Kerboros has been permitted to survive only as an example to others, an object lesson as to how far one may fall. But traveling with Thea―wild, warm, impossible Thea―is a glorious torment for an enforcer who has never known freedom.

She is sunshine. He is shadow.

Their love is forbidden, but when irresistible force sweeps up an immovable object, the resulting reaction might be magical…


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About the authors:

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ann Aguirre has been a clown, a clerk, a savior of stray kittens, and a voice actress, not necessarily in that order. She grew up in a yellow house across from a cornfield, but now she lives in Mexico with her family. She writes all kinds of genre fiction, but she has an eternal soft spot for a happily ever after.

Z.M. (they/them) is a writer, artist, and therapist. They write cozy queer fantasy that tackles mental health topics and themes of identity. Z.M. lives in Saint Paul with their spouse, human child, and fur children.


Agenda

🕑: 06:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Arrival
🕑: 07:00 PM - 07:05 PM
Intro and welcome
🕑: 07:05 PM - 07:45 PM
Author conversation
🕑: 07:45 PM - 08:00 PM
Audience Q&A
🕑: 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Signing
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Where is it happening?

Tropes & Trifles, 2709 East 38th Street, Minneapolis, United States

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Tickets

USD 12.87

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