Sarah's Journal

THE SPELLSHOP IS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (#7), A USA TODAY BESTSELLER (#13), AND AN INDIE BESTSELLER (#10)!!!!!!!! I’M SOBBING!!!! Thank you so much to everyone at Bramble/Tor/Macmillan who made my dreams come true, including the incredible Ali Fisher, Dianna Vega, Caro Perny, and Julia Bergen! Thank you so much to my amazing agent Andrea Somberg who has been with me for 18 years and 28 books! And thank you to the wonderful booksellers and readers who made this possible!!!! I love you all so much!!!

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When you call home from book tour and find out which family member misses you most.....

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I am over-the-moon excited to share with you that today is the book birthday for my newest book, THE SPELLSHOP! It's a cozy fantasy about a rogue librarian and her best friend, a sentient spider plant, who take on the low-stakes market of illegal spellmaking and the high-risk business of starting over. And it's for anyone who is looking for a slice of joy, a bit of comfort, or just a deep breath.

I wrote this book to feel like a warm hug. Or like drinking hot chocolate. Or like eating really good raspberry jam. Or a cinnamon roll, with hot chocolate and maybe some raspberry jam on the side...

We've all been through a lot over the past few years, and I wrote THE SPELLSHOP for anyone who wants to escape into a world filled with kindness and enchantment.


Thank you to everyone at Macmillan/Tor/Bramble for bringing this book to life and gracing it with Lulu Chen's beautiful cover art and such lovely lavender sprayed edges!

If you'd like to learn more about the book or read the first chapter, please visit my website: http://www.sarahbethdurst.com/Spellshop.htm

I'm also going on book tour starting today, and I'm so excited!! If you'd like to join me at any of my tour stops, I'd love to see you! For details, see the Events page of my website.

Happy reading!!!

Just two more sleeps until The Spellshop comes out and book tour begins! Over the next week and a half, I'm headed to Vermont, Atlanta, Brooklyn, Phoenix, Knoxville, and Chapel Hill! I'm so excited I could burst! Please come join me!

http://www.sarahbethdurst.com/appearances.htm

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Interested in a signed and personalized copy of THE SPELLSHOP? You can get one either by attending one of my tour events or by preordering from The Ripped Bodice by 7/4 or Books of Wonder by 7/14! Details and links here: http://www.sarahbethdurst.com/appearances.htm

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Woke up to the lovely news that THE SPELLSHOP is a double Amazon Editors' Pick -- a Best SFF Book of July AND a Best Romance Book of July!!!  I'm so honored, grateful, and excited!  Thanks so much, Amazon Editors!

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Had a fantastic time at the Gold Coast Book Fair this weekend!! Such a wonderful new book festival -- loved meeting readers and the other guest authors and the incredibly organized festival staff! 

 

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Tomorrow!!! I'll be on two panels at the very first Gold Coast Book Fair on Sunday, June 30, in Oyster Bay, NY:

1:30pm in Raynham Hall Museum: "Chapter Book Adventures for Young Readers" with Sarah Beth Durst and Laurie Smollett Kutscera, moderated by Kathryn Mullholand

3pm at The Wine Line: "Drunk on Love: Romance Reader's Happy Hour!" with Sarah Beth Durst and Ali Rosen, moderated by Jeannie Moon (Note: I'll be signing ARCs of my upcoming cozy fantasy, THE SPELLSHOP, after this panel!!!)

I'll also be at the Gold Coast Speakeasy closing reception at The Wine Line from 4-6pm.

Hope to see you there!

Full schedule here: https://goldcoastbookfair.com/sunday-schedule/ 

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Absolutely floored to announce that THE SPELLSHOP was selected as the Top Pick on the July 2024 LibraryReads list!!! Thank you so much, librarians! I am so incredibly honored and grateful!!! 

https://libraryreads.org

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Super excited to announce that my publisher is sending me on book tour for THE SPELLSHOP in July!!! I'm absolutely thrilled to be visiting so many awesome bookstores and to have such incredible conversation partners -- Katherine Arden, Kimberly Lemming, Naomi Novik, Rebecca Thorne, and T. Kingfisher!!! It's really a dream come true!

If you're anywhere near Essex, Atlanta, Brooklyn, Phoenix, Knoxville, Chapel Hill, San Diego, or Glasgow, I hope you'll come join me! This is going to be so much fun!

Details here:
http://www.sarahbethdurst.com/appearances.htm

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