UFI welcomes Jody Gehrman Author of Audrey's Guide to Witchcraft. Thanks for Joining us!!
My Inner
Sanctum
by
Jody
Gehrman
Hello, Urban Fantasy Investigations
fans! I'm super happy to be here, especially since this blog has one of the
coolest banners ever. Seriously, that's such an awesome little scene our host
has going up there. I totally want to step into it, even if there is a
terrifying monster lurking at the top of the stairs. I'm guessing I get to be
the menacing heroine in the leather pants, though, so I'll know exactly what to
do when Mr. Spooky gets to me.
Okay, full disclosure: it's not
usually this clean. I tidied up a bit for you guys. Just outside the frame
there are coffee cups, reams of paper, dirty socks and plates strewn with toast
crumbs. You know, tools of the trade.
Here's a quirky fact about my
writing cave: It used to be a hair salon. My husband, a brilliant
carpenter-artist dude completely transformed it for me. He added skylights and
French doors and tile and stairs. Every once in a while, though, you can still
catch a whiff of the Ghost of Perms Past.
Just outside the window above my
desk there are several hummingbird feeders. You can barely see them in this
photo; they're just little red blips above my computer. For some reason, having
a front row view of hummingbirds and their feisty dramas totally soothes me
while I write. Maybe it's because I get a little glimpse of nature while I hole
up inside. Also, hummingbirds are so energetic and determined. They speak to
the manic, hurry-up-and-finish-this chapter part of me.
Before I go, here's a shot of my
partner in crime: my obese and grumpy cat, Max. She usually sits in my lap
while I write, which can get quite awkward at times. Seeing as she weighs about
four hundred pounds, shifting positions proves challenging. Still, I can't
imagine life without her. After all, every witch needs a familiar!
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Jody Gehrman
is the author of seven novels and numerous plays. Audrey's Guide to Witchcraft
is her most recent Young Adult novel. Her other Young Adult novels include Babe
in Boyland, Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty, and Triple Shot Bettys in Love,
(Penguin's Dial Books). Babe in Boyland has recently been optioned by the
Disney Channel and won the International Reading Association's Teen Choice
Award. Her adult novels are Notes from the Backseat, Tart, and Summer in
the Land of Skin (Red Dress Ink). Her plays have been produced in Ashland, New
York, San Francisco, Chicago and L.A. She and her partner David Wolf won the
New Generation Playwrights Award for their one-act, Jake Savage, Jungle P.I.
She is a professor of English at Mendocino College.
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Audrey's Guide to WitchcraftAudrey's Guide #1
Falling in Love, baking a magical cake, fighting an evil necromancer—it’s all in a day’s work for Audrey Oliver, seventeen-year-old witch-in-training. When her mother goes missing and her twenty-one-year-old witchy cousin shows up out of the blue, Audrey knows something’s gone horribly, dangerously wrong. Now it’s up to her to get her own magical powers up to speed before everyone she loves is destroyed by the sorcerer intricately connected to her mother’s secret past.
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One signed print copy (US/Canada only); one ebook (international)
One signed print copy (US/Canada only); one ebook (international)
