Description: After reveling in the knowledge of the expansion of their family, Matthew Clairmont considers what it will take to keep his wife occupied and happy in her new century. Prayer and physic alone won’t do it. It’s time for Diana to meet her new gal-pal, Mary. Longer commutes and thorough workouts will be easily […]

Happy Holidays! It’s our last giveaway of the year! Every year we aim to emulate Phoebe Taylor’s philosophy: Phoebe had encouraged the entire family to think of gifts that were handmade or hand-me-down, which struck us all as both meaningful and practical.  ~ The Book of Life Well, nothing is hand-made this year, but all […]

Because it’s Black Friday . . . and giveaways are one of our favorite things! ‘Black is the badge of hell, the hue of dungeons, and the school of night’ — or you can go with the version by Kit, in Shadow of Night: Black is the badge of true love lost. The hue of […]

Cover of the All Souls Real-Time Reading Companion Yes!  In case you’ve missed it (perhaps taking a social media break?  Maybe we’ll try that one day! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) We are going to get an official real-time reading  companion for our e-readers from Penguin Books, just like our friends in the UK (or wherever Headline Books […]

The working title of this piece: “Time Walking After a Massive Bender” — you’re welcome 😆. Description: “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” Scratch that! Goodbyes flat-out suck! And that’s what Diana has to deal with in this chapter; saying goodbye to her father — although technically, not really — but we get it. The fact […]

Need powdered mouse ears? Books promising to vanquish diseases by employing mercury? C’mon down to Chandler’s shop! Description: Join us as we follow Monsieur Pierre Cornu as he chases his errant charge, Diana Bishop, all over London! She’s shopping for ink, sealing wax, paper, soap, some books — oh, and did we mention a witch? […]

Picture from the Getty’s Original Instagram post Hi friends!  To keep us on the legal side of online publishing norms/rules/laws, we must preface this post with a disclaimer: the following is a transcription of a Q&A about Alchemy.  We are currently very interested in this subject because of research we are conducting for a future […]

US and Canada, we’re ready! Are you? 🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR, ONE AND ALL!🍾 We are sooo excited to share our excitement over the TV adaptation of our very favorite book series, The All Souls Trilogy (named for book one of the trilogy, A Discovery of Witches)! We have been busy Daemons these past couple of […]

First things first: All Souls Con! We have a coupon code for All Souls Con (good until July 15th 2017).  Coupon code: DISCUSSER – Passes:  now $99, virtual passes: $0 (! –> thanks goes to Penguin Books for sponsoring the live stream)  All early bird prices ended the 15th of June, 2017 — Virtual passes […]

This may become a tradition . . . We are having a GIVEAWAY RE-RUN! Last year, we had this same giveaway, but let’s do it again for 2019. The saying goes “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” We love celebrating holidays, but as much as the retail marketers tell us that it’s time for […]

The key to it all… (OK, maybe not THE key, but A key 😝) Description: Through a series of tussles (verbal/physical) between the head of the de Clermont family and the Grand Master of the Knights of Lazarus, we finally learn who in the family actually holds that elusive seat on the Congregation, and where […]

🥳 2020 is almost over! That’s a big reason to celebrate!🎄 Hello, friends! We are celebrating the end of the year with a huge GIVEAWAY! We wish you all a merry Christmas, a cool Yule, a happy Hanukkah, and a festive whatever your reason for the season! We haven’t been very celebratory this year, so […]

Description: Ysabeau spills the tea on Matthew’s past, we get to see vampires hunting, we watch the Congregation plotting (together and against one another!), and we learn how Matthew actually feels about Diana. There’s other things thrown in there like the Knights of Lazarus, mating, suicide, and schmexy science-y stuff.  Our wary hearts are eventually […]

Description: ADOW ch 35-38 – Settled into the Bishop house, Matthew Clairmont and Diana Bishop are faced with many problems: avoiding the wrath of the congregation, making sense of Diana’s magical limitations, and figuring out the meaning of the wayward page from Ashmole 782 that the house delivered to them in chapter 34. We soon […]