Amber Benson’s The Witches of Echo Park Now Available; Signing in Chicago Today!
Debi Moore
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Amber Benson is best known for portraying Tara in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” but she has transitioned into a formidable author and filmmaker. Her new book, The Witches of Echo Park, was released this week by Ace Trade, and she’s on a whirlwind tour to promote it with just a few days remaining.
She’s in Chicago today (1/10), New York tomorrow (1/11), and wraps things up in Houston on Monday (1/12). Read on for the details!
From the Press Release:
Amber Benson is what we call “a maker of things.” A prolific writer, she is the author of the five-book Calliope Reaper-Jones urban fantasy series for Penguin and the middle grade book Among the Ghosts for Simon and Schuster. Behind the camera she co-directed the Slamdance feature film Drones and (co-wrote) and directed the BBC animated series “The Ghosts of Albion.”
In her previous incarnation as an actor, she spent three years as lesbian witch Tara Maclay on the cult television series “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” and later this year she will appear as head vamp Amelie in “Morganville: The Series” for Geek & Sundry. Her new book, The Witches of Echo Park, came out in early January 2015. Amber does not own a television.
Three cities are left on Amber’s tour schedule:
1/10/15 – CHALLENGERS COMICS – Chicago – 4:00 pm
1/11/15 – MIDTOWN COMICS (Downtown) – New York City – 2:00 pm
1/12/15 – MURDER BY THE BOOK – Houston – 6:30 pm
Synopsis:
Unbeknownst to most of humankind, a powerful network of witches thrives within the shadows of society, using their magic to keep the world in balance. But they are being eliminated—and we will all pay if their power falls…
When Lyse MacAllister’s Great Aunt Eleanora, the woman who raised her, becomes deathly ill, Lyse puts her comfortable life in Georgia on hold to rush back to Los Angeles. And once she’s back in Echo Park, Lyse discovers her aunt has been keeping secrets—extraordinary secrets—from her.
Lyse is heir not only to Eleanora’s home, she is also expected to take her great aunt’s place in the Echo Park coven of witches. But to accept her destiny means to place herself in deadly peril—for the world of magic is under siege, and the battle the witches now fight may be their last…
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