Hey everybody, M. here,

Stuff has been moving fast over here, at such a pace that I have not had the chance to update the blog about some big stuff going on over the past week or two. So I’ll just jump to today’s big announcement: I am thrilled to say that the hotly-anticipated Walpurgis Witcheries anthology from DMR Books, the follow-up to 2022’s popular collection of seasonal sword & sorcery Samhain Sorceries, is now available for purchase!

You can grab one direct from Amazon, or order from the DMR webstore so that you can make sure to get a copy of the limited-edition Two Tales of Witchery chapbook, containing two additional stories and for sale only directly from DMR online or at the DMR table at book shows.

Walpurgis Witcheries contains nine stories of blood & thunder set in and around Germany’s Harz mountain range and the Walpurgisnacht festival. Among the tales you will find my new story, The Wandering One And The Witchdance. What can you expect? Here’s an idea:

In the Ottonian era of the Holy Roman Empire, an unknown warrior with an odd name arrives in a village at the edge of the Harz Mountains. The pagan festival to celebrate the start of spring, though formally banned and rededicated to St. Walpurga, is soon to begin. But that arriving stranger, Vodoberex, has other business in those hallowed mountains as the festivities get underway. For he is the Wandering One, there to stare in the eye hideous terrors known to most only in glimpses and shadows, and to do battle with them!

And in keeping with that, one of the things I missed posting here earlier in the week is that I had the pleasure of appearing on the Monsters, Madness and Magic podcast to discuss my story in Walpurgis Witcheries and some other sword & sorcery and writing-related topics with a few other authors who have stories appearing in the book (including podcast host J.R. Young).

Pick up a copy today and get ready for much more to come!
-M.