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Pitch Wars 2018 Indie Alumni Blog Tour Spotlight for The Magic of Death

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This week we’re hosting a series of spotlights as part of the Pitch Wars 2018 Indie Alumni Blog Tour celebrating the indie authors forged through the event. For those unfamiliar, Pitch Wars was once a mentorship competition where established authors and editors would choose mentees from a pool of entrants and work with their mentor to revise their manuscripts and participate in an agent showcase. Pitch Wars was a great way for aspiring authors to find their agent, but not every author took the trad pub path.

This tour is a celebration of those authors who took a different path via indie and self-publishing, and we’ll be shining the spotlight on their books! To follow the tour across the blogosphere, check out the linktree.

Please welcome our next alumni Leslie Gail and The Magic of Death, a paranormal cozy mystery set in Texas with spooky vibes.

Witches, Murder, and Ghosts, oh my!
Welcome to Dead End, Texas, a tourist town where it’s spooky season all year long…

Star Bell comes from a long line of witches originating all the way back to Salem—if her granny is to be believed.

While the rest of her family employs their magical abilities in their assorted businesses on Main Street, Star flat out refuses to use her own because communicating with the dearly departed has never brought her anything but trouble. And the one spirit she wants to talk to—her sister Astra—has ghosted her. So why bother?

And if that’s not enough for an almost forty-year-old to deal with, she’s living with three generations of Bells. Between her sixty-year-old aunt who is acting like a teenager and her teenage niece who isn’t acting much like herself, Star doesn’t have a moment of peace these days.

But when her niece becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation, Star must embrace her power and enlist the spirits of Dead End to help find the real killer before she becomes a permanent resident of Dead End herself.