K. Valentin with Jasmine Kuliasha — 'An Amateur Witch's Guide to M**der'

Third Place Books welcomes author K. Valentin to our Seward Park store for a conversation about her debut novel, — a sweet, sarcastic, and somewhat spooky queer paranormal romance that "perfectly illustrates that the best way to face your demons is with a sense of humor and friends by your side" (Maiga Dooney). K. will be joined in conversation by Jasmine Kuliasha, author of .

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Mateo Borrero has 99 problems—and all of them hinge on his missing bruja mother and the demon she trapped inside his body.

Mateo's mother forbade him from ever using magic, but now that she’s gone, magic’s his only marketable skill, and he’d really like an exorcism—which costs money he doesn’t have. What’s the harm in making a quick buck by calling himself an Occult Specialist and chanting a few half-remembered spells in his crappy Spanish?

Enter Topher, a naive nepo baby with a curse that keeps killing people around him. Most importantly, he’s rich and too clueless to clock that Mateo—and his (absolutely-not-the-assistant) astral-projecting best friend Ophelia—have never actually had a client before. Lifting Topher’s bad luck curse should be simple, but as luck would have it, nothing is simple, and Topher–who Mateo sort of, kind of likes–might be at the center of a deadly magical conspiracy.

To make matters worse, the more magic Mateo does, the stronger the demon inside him grows and the more he wants to eat people. But would caving to the urges of an ancient evil really be that bad if it helps him get a payday?

Legends and Lattes meets A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer in this hilarious and charming queer romantic fantasy readers won’t want to miss.

K. Valentin works as a senior art director in casual gaming, herding twenty-plus amazing artists into some semblance of organization. She has been published in the Bag of Bones Horror Anthology, the Latino Book Review, and Cosmos: An Anthology of Dark Microfiction. As a comic writer and illustrator, her work has been published in Puerto Rico Strong and Proud: An LGBTQ+ YA Anthology. She has a BA in creative writing from Southern New Hampshire University. An Amateur Witch's Guide to M**der is her debut novel.

Jasmine Kuliasha was born in Peru and grew up in Guatemala, where she fell in love with rich (and sometimes creepy) folktales. Now she writes about cryptids and folklore from her home in Colorado, and in her free time she tries to get her personal assistants (two cats) to do anything at all.

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