Melinda Beatty: The Witch’s Table

Name: Melinda Beatty: The Witch’s Table
Start: 2025-10-29T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-29T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 12 N Market St, Frederick, MD, United States, Maryland 21701

Schedule

Wed Oct 29 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

12 N Market St, Frederick, MD, United States, Maryland 21701 | Frederick, MD

Join us at Curious Iguana at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, October 29 for a meet-and-greet with local author and Curious Iguana bookseller Melinda Beatty as she promotes her book, The Witch’s Table. After spending the day visiting schools, Melinda will be at the Iguana in the evening to meet fans and sign books!
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
About the book: When a young witch inherits a rather cantankerous family heirloom; she has to figure out how to outwit her cursed companion.
The Table had been in the Witch’s family for a very long time. No one remembered who had cursed it to stay with them forever, but none of them liked it much. The young witch initially tries to thwart the Table’s shenanigans. But after some time living with the Table, she begins to notice how cold the kitchen floor is on a brisk winter’s day, how many nicks and scratches the Table has endured, and how hard it is to stand on all four legs for so many hours, and she comes to realize compassion will get her further than cleverness. This charming and hilarious picture book is about empathy and trying to find common ground with the people–or furniture–around you.
About the author: Melinda Beatty has had years of practice trying to explain to others why she was just having an imaginary conversation between two people that don’t exist, so becoming a writer seemed like the best way to stop everyone from looking at her funny. After years of narrowboat living on the English canals, she and her British husband are now back on dry land in Maryland, where by day, she’s a mild-mannered indie bookseller, and by night, she wrangles words, crafts projects, and raises a Labrador and two fierce mini-women.