Sorcery and Small Magics, with Maiga Doocy

Name: Sorcery and Small Magics, with Maiga Doocy
Start: 2024-10-23T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Gibson's Bookstore

Schedule

Wed Oct 23 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Gibson's Bookstore | Concord, NH

Join Gibson's Bookstore as we present New England author Maiga Doocy and her debut novel, Sorcery and Small Magics, a queer cozy fantasy with a slow burn romance. Maiga will be in conversation with Bookseller Elisabeth, the Gibson's events director, as Maiga and Elisabeth talk about fantasy, the pressure of promise, dragons, and cats.
From debut author Maiga Doocy comes the charming tale of an impulsive sorcerer and his curmudgeonly rival as they venture deep into a magical forest in search of a counterspell that can break the curse between them—only to discover that magic might not be the only thing pulling them together.
Here is what Elisabeth said in her staff review: "Cozy fantasy is having A Moment and the market is starting to catch up, and I'm loving the flush of satisfaction and rightness that fills my body when I finish one.
Ah, the feminine urge to retreat from society into a cottage (enchanted tower that's bigger on the inside than the outside) in the Cursed Woods with a magical dire wolf named Beauregard (good doggie) and be a supporting character who writes counterspells for the hapless idiots (our cursed hot mess rich boy and stern scholarship prodigy main characters) who manage to fight through the monsters and your barrier to ask for help. And then serve them tea and make them do housework.
Clever two-part balanced magic system of those who cast spells and the scriveners who produce the spells (literal tangible objects) for casters to consume, without which the other cannot produce magic.
Academic rivals.
An accidentally cast control spell, resulting in forced proximity and a desperate need for that countercurse.
Includes a soft gay (with a bisexual lead) romantic plot line.
There were no dragons, but there are 7 eyed gigantic monsters that have a fondness for your bones and also violin music."