Dot Slash Magic


Dot Slash Magic

I'm super excited to officially announce that I've signed a book deal with Angry Robot Books (and tell you how to get your hands on an ARC!!!!)

Angry Robot are a UK-based publishing house with worldwide distribution through Penguin Random House. They are, in their own words, "dedicated to the best in modern adult science fiction, fantasy and WTF?!"

They publish some great fantasy, romance, and sci-fi authors, including St. Gibson (An Education in Malice, Evocation) and Stacey McEwan (Ledge.)


The book I'm writing for this deal is called

✨Dot Slash Magic✨

Fantasy academy romance meets The Matrix.

But make it sexy.

And add punk rock.

What if you wrote a magic computer program?

What if that magic computer program started summoning monsters?

When twenty-something coder Seven Jones goes back to school at a community college in San Diego, the last thing she wants is to join some stupid club. And the last thing she expects is to walk into an underground magic club. 🧙 Like, actual wizards and shit.

Seven reluctantly joins the motley crew of magic weirdos and discovers her own power, but struggles to control it…until she figures out how to channel her magic through an artificially intelligent computer program. 👾

Unfortunately, there is literally nothing Seven’s new friends hate more than AI. So when a student mysteriously turns up dead, blame falls on Seven. Is her “creepy artificial magic” summoning terrifying creatures from all sorts of mythologies? 🐲Or is someone trying to frame her? 

With only one person—cute ex-Navy seal Logan—on her side, Seven fights monsters (Dragon? Check. Kraken? Check.) while struggling to convince everyone that her AI has nothing to do with them.

But how can she convince her peers when she isn’t totally convinced herself?


It's this kind of vibe:

Girls who code. And do magic. And also listen to Nirvana.


The book is slated for release July 2025. 


ARC REQUESTS!

For those who don't know, ARC stands for Advance Review Copy. It's a free copy of the book that you get in exchange for a review when the book launches. All you have to do is promise to review the book once it's out, and you get it free (and early!) Win-win!

I'll be sending out an ARC Request form to my newsletter in a couple of weeks, plus an invite to the cover reveal party, happening in October!

ARC requests will be handled by Angry Robot, and everyone involved in the cover reveal will be entered into a giveaway to win a signed copy of the book on launch, so jump on my mailing list if you want to be involved in both or either of these things!

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