Maggie Blackbird

Today, I have bestselling author A.L. Hawke in the interview chair. We’re discussing her latest release Shadow Cast, book six in The Hawthorne University Witch series, a paranormal, fantasy romance. Be sure to check out the sale. And don’t forget to enter the Rafflecopter giveaway.

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1. Where were you born/grew up?

A.L. Hawke: Los Angeles. Grew up in the San Fernando Valley.

2. What are you passionate about these days?

A.L. Hawke: Magick. I’ve become pretty obsessed with magic lately because I’ve had to study it for my witch novels. I really try to make my books as real as possible so I research real stuff.

3. What do you do to unwind and relax?

A.L. Hawke: Write. Sorry, it’s true.

4. Do you have a favourite movie?

A.L. Hawke: Wizard of Oz. A lot of my witch stories are influenced by this movie. I even had fun adapting a scene in my last book, Shadow Cast (I won’t tell the scene in order to avoid spoilers). I absolutely love that movie and I’ve seen it a zillion times. I also love all the Stanley Kubrick movies, like 2001 and Clockwork Orange.

5. Which of your novels can you imagine being made into a movie?

A.L. Hawke: All my focus lately has been with my witch series. I’d love to see Cadence Hawthorne on the silver screen.

6. What literary pilgrimages have you gone on?

A.L. Hawke: Not enough. I enjoy being active on writing forums, like Kboards and Writer Sanctum, and talking to other authors, but I haven’t found the time yet to go to a conference. In the future, I suppose.

7. As a writer, what would you choose as your mascot/avatar/spirit animal?

A.L. Hawke: The phoenix. That’s the symbol on my author logo. Writing gives me something eternal. Nothing lasts forever, but the phoenix dies and is reborn for eons. I hope some of my stories, characters, or scenes lives on in people’s thoughts and memories.

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Title: Shadow Cast
Series: The Hawthorne University Witch Series, Book 6
Author: A.L. Hawke
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Romance

You can’t cast shadows in darkness.

Blurb: It’s the start of my second year of graduate school at Hawthorne University. (I wasn’t canned, okay?) Bryce and our dean organize an orientation meeting to recruit witches. Yep, it’s time to teach Alondra’s “honors” program.

Everything goes fine until that slithery snake-witch, Adder, barges into my home. She claims I’m cursing her master, Enora, haunting the dreams of her Abaddon coven. I’m not. Honest. But sometimes Alondra pops up inside me, acting outside of my control.

We hold a séance to ask the ghost possessing me to go away. I don’t see ghosts or spirits. I see evil. But you know, it’s funny, no one else seems to.

My sole mastery of necromancy might just be enough to protect Bryce and my unborn baby—or save my greatest adversary.

Cadence Hawthorne returns in this sixth book in the Hawthorne University Witch series.

Content Warning: Shadow Cast contains profanity, sex, adult situations and, of course, witchcraft.

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Title: Ravens
Series: The Hawthorne University Witch Series, Book 5
Author: A.L. Hawke
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Romance

When evil lands on my doorstep.

Blurb: While Bryce and I are finally enjoying some quiet time together, a dark, shadowy figure crashes into our door. And it isn’t a small black bird this time. A devil is hurt, asking for my help.

Well, I just have too many problems of my own now. People don’t want to talk to me. And Bryce isn’t touching me. So what’s a witch to do? Haul up my legs, sit on a pentagram in a circle of candles, and murmur to myself.

My best friend Maddie thinks I’m under a curse. But, honestly, I feel like I have to do whatever it takes to save this town, even if it means teaming up with my archenemy witch Enora.

Evil empowers me. But this dark spellcasting also intends to drive a stake right through my heart and the heart of Hawthorne University. See, not only am I feeling alone, I’m getting expelled.

Cadence Hawthorne returns in this fifth book in the Hawthorne University Witch series.

Content Warning: Ravens contains profanity, sex, adult situations and, of course, witchcraft.

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Title: Witch Mirror
Series: The Hawthorne University Witch Series, Book 4
Author: A.L. Hawke
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Romance

Reflections of a wicked witch.

Blurb: Bryce and I are trying to revive Alondra’s old metaphysical history class. We’re in college again, this time teaching. But It’s stressful under our former teacher’s shadow. Not only that, there’s a new demon-witch messing with my love life. So I’m going through that again. Well, at least this time I have Alondra’s magic to protect me.

Actually, not only do I have her magic, her spirit is inside me, possessing me. But don’t worry, Alondra’s ghost is a positive force here to help Hawthorne. I mean…are you good, Alondra?

A witch council is gathering at my house to reflect on ways to save us. They’re convinced Alondra is evil, but Alondra and I are unsure they know what they’re doing. Well, if I can’t hold things together—inside and outside of myself—I fear my plans of finishing graduate school at Hawthorne U. and starting a family are going to shatter.

Cadence Hawthorne returns in this fourth book in the Hawthorne University Witch series. Some spoilers cannot be avoided, but Witch Mirror is a stand-alone novel that can be enjoyed without reading the preceding books.

Content Warning: Witch Mirror contains profanity, sex, adult situations and, of course, witchcraft.

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Bryce stops his old gray BMW before a rickety old wooden bridge. He has to drive slowly so we don’t dive through the wooden planks and crash into the water below. The bridge is not much wider than his car. I hate seeing this bridge again. Not only is it always a legitimate danger to our lives, it was sort of the beginning of the Samhain Witch’s freak show. But I don’t hate Geneva Forest. All these trees are like home. Of course, as if the broken-down bridge weren’t bad enough, at the end of the bridge is a wall of white fog. That looks hellishly ominous, too, like we’re going to be swallowed by the white smoke after we cross over. Mira’s black van is behind us. We wait for her and, like last Halloween, she’s probably more worried than Bryce about falling through the wooden boards with her heavier van.

“She’s here,” says Afreyea, seated behind me, in her thick accent. That freaks me out. Gala is sitting beside her. “You feel her?”

“No,” Bryce grunts, but it actually sounds more like he’s saying “yes.”

Flakes of ice start hitting the windshield. Snow? In mid-March? What the hell? Isn’t all this weird enough? There’s not a cloud in the sky.

“It could totally be Hansel and Gretel, you know, Bryce,” I say. “She could be luring us inside to eat us.”

“I don’t see candy,” Bryce says, shaking his head. “That house, if you remember, was more like a fly-infested dung heap.”

“Beelzebub,” says Gala.

“Huh?” I ask.

“Beelzebub,” Gala repeats in her Romanian accent. “Lord of the flies.”

O-k-a-y. You know, these witches are supposed to protect us, right? We’re supposed to have a full-on witch showdown and kick some witch ass. So why does Gala sound scared? Then, to make it worse, Afreyea is whispering. At first, I thought she was muttering something about Beelzebub. No, she’s chanting an incantation in another language.

Ice now covers our windshield, and Bryce has to slow the car to a crawl and run his windshield wipers.

A rush of water splashes my passenger window and makes me jump. Did Bryce drive over a puddle? No, he has almost stopped. Is this the start of black magic shit?

I look back and see something I wish I hadn’t. Afreyea’s eyes are wide open. Apparently, the water splashing scared her.

“She’s here,” Afreyea says. “Brought your book, Cadence?”

Uh, I sure did.

“We end this now, Aurora,” Gala says. “We finally end this, sister.”

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A.L. Hawke is the author of the bestselling Hawthorne University Witch series. The author lives in Southern California torching the midnight candle over lovers against a backdrop of machines, nymphs, magic, spice and mayhem. A.L. Hawke writes fantasy and romance spanning four thousand years, from pre-civilization to contemporary and beyond.

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