An email from Kathryn Whitney arrived saying that she had recently read a fantasy book called Small Magics and asked if we would mind publishing it. It is a fantastic review on a debut novel by author Erik Buchanan. A snippet can be seen below - read the full Small Magics review
“Small Magics as a volume might have benefited from one further glance from its editor: proof-readers missed a number of typos that were easily spotted by this reader. Also, the journey to the city featured perhaps one delay too many for me. I was already convinced of the quality and depth of the characters and I was excited about the possibility of the eventual dénouement that I knew awaited me at the end of the novel; I simply wanted them to get on with it. These small technical reservations aside, however, I would wholeheartedly recommend this interesting, amusing and exciting new book, which is an excellent read and deserves a wide audience. Buchanan is a skilled writer with a wonderfully descriptive, visual style, great comic timing and a talent for surprising and clever dialogue. Erik Buchanan’s Small Magics is a brilliant novel with a promising future (the sequel, Cold Magics, is about to appear), and it marks the important début of a uniquely gifted writer.”
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