1–What is the title of your latest release?
2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
WHAT BECAME OF MAGIC is a tale of ley lines and magic, found family, a powerful coven, and the many ways we love one another. It is the story of Aline Weir, a witch and outcast who doesn’t believe she belongs the world until the fates intervene, and she is tasked with saving it.
3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
It’s based off a real place! Serenbe is a wellness community in GA, outside of Atlanta, and it bears a striking resemblance to the town of Matchstick. The rest of the places in the book are based on the town I grew up in, and on the locations of ley lines in the world.
4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?
I would love to be friends with Aline. I feel like I already am, since I know her so well.
5–What are three words that describe your hero?
Willing, brave, kind.
6–What’s something you learned while writing this book?
How to move through loss. I wrote this novel over the six-week period when my mom was dying, and it helped me look through both sides of losing and having lost.
7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
Typically, I edit as I draft, at least a little. Though every book is a process and each one so far has been quite different from the other.
8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Chocolate covered frozen strawberries.
9–Describe your writing space/office!
I have an office that I largely ignore for curling up a daybed in what I call the “green room” of our home, which is a sunroom that sits (essentially) in the middle the forest.
10–Who is an author you admire?
Ack, I admire so many! Anne Rice is perhaps the author who I have admired the longest.
11–Is there a book that changed your life?
I think so many of the books I have read have changed me and therefor my life. They have given me an escape when I needed one, strength when I forgot my own, friends if I was lonely, and endless joy.
12–Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)
I got the call for my debut, THE ORPHAN WITCH, and I can picture where I was sitting in a swinging chair, and how still the air suddenly became. That moment is sharp, brilliant, and unforgettable! WHAT BECAME OF MAGIC was equally exciting, but it came by way of an email, and I simply remember grinning so wide it hurt, and I couldn’t stop smiling for an hour.
13–What’s your favorite genre to read?
I have a deep love of books, in a visceral “these are all my friends” way! So I can’t choose a single genre. I really love them all. (I do have to read horror in the daytime with all the lights on.)
14–What’s your favorite movie?
Field of Dreams is one of my top five for so many reasons, and this time of year has it whispering my name.
15–What is your favorite season?
Each one feels like the best as I am in it! The equinoxes in particular are my favorite.
16–How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
My birthday happens to be on Beltane, May the first, and I prefer to wear a flower crown of some sort and light a fire (or enough candles to put a fire’s flame to shame).
17–What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
Bluiríní Béaloidis is an amazing folklore podcast, and I highly recommend it!
18–What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
The chocolate kind? Yes, definitely the chocolate kind.
19–What do you do when you have free time?
Forest bathe, there is little that centers me more than being in the woods. (Unless my littles are with me, and then it’s a whole lot of fun but not quite as quiet and calm).
20–What can readers expect from you next?
I’m currently in revision for my next novel in which a witch sets out to break a generational curse and save her family by teaming up with the last person on earth who should ever want to help her – the witch who cast the spell in the first place.
Thank you so much for having me!
Xx
Paige
WHAT BECAME OF MAGIC by Paige Crutcher
From Paige Crutcher, the author of The Orphan Witch and The Lost Witch, comes a new tale about a witch, a book of magic, and a beguiling and powerful creature whom she must free, even if it puts her life and soul at stake.
Aline Weir, a witch who can talk to ghosts, has kept her talents hidden ever since a disastrous middle school slumber party, choosing to be invisible and use her powers in secret to help lost souls reunite with the keys to send them home. All the while, she finds solace in a bookstore and the three mysterious women who run it… until Aline discovers the book of Mischief, and her powers are enhanced.
Living a solitary life until the age of thirty, Aline’s life takes an unexpected turn when the wrong (or perhaps right) person witnesses her using her powers and she is invited to a town that doesn’t exist on any map. Arriving in Matchstick, Aline learns of a lost magic that desperately needs to be found and only her unique powers can do it. But what she’s not told is that Magic is a person. One that is dangerous and seductive and has been waiting for a witch with a power like hers for centuries.
Fantasy Dark [St. Martin’s Griffin, On Sale: September 26, 2023, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781250905529 / eISBN: 9781250905536]
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About Paige Crutcher
Paige Crutcher is the author of THE ORPHAN WITCH. She is a former journalist, and her work appears in multiple anthologies and online publications. She is an artist and yogi, and when not writing, she prefers to spend her time trekking through the forest with her children, hunting for portals to new worlds.
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