Here’s a list of all the events and publications that we can link you to in the coming weeks.

Events

September 18 at 7:00 PM ET

Book Club – Join us on September 18th at 7PM ET to discuss the hilarious and delightful novel Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis!

Okay, so here’s the publisher’s description:

“Queen Saskia is the wicked sorceress everyone fears. After successfully wrestling the throne from her evil uncle, she only wants one thing: to keep her people safe from the empire next door. For that, she needs to spend more time in her laboratory experimenting with her spells. She definitely doesn’t have time to bring order to her chaotic library of magic.

When a mysterious dark wizard arrives at her castle, Saskia hires him as her new librarian on the spot. ‘Fabian’ is sweet and a little nerdy, and his requests seem a little strange – what in the name of Divine Elva is a fountain pen? – but he’s getting the job done. And if he writes her flirtatious poetry and his innocent touch makes her skin singe, well . . .

Little does Saskia know that the ‘wizard’ she’s falling for is actually an Imperial archduke in disguise, with no magical training whatsoever. On the run, he’s in danger from Saskia”s enemies and her new-found allies, too. So when Saskia finally discovers the truth, will their love save them – or be their doom?”

And that’s, like, fine, right? Neither of us know if we would have actually picked this one up based on that description alone though.

But here’s the thing – the actual novel is SO much better than that description (or the odd paperback version of the cover) hints at! We think this Goodreads review sums it up much better:

“What an absolute delight this book was, and oh, do we need more gentle heroes! This lovely new story from Stephanie Burgis features a rakish Queen of Villainy and her gentle librarian–who harbors some serious secrets. If you love hidden identities, slow burn romance, and learning to face the ghosts of your past–by learning to draw strength from those you love–then this story is for you.

Burgis turns so many stereotypes on their head, but by far the one I loved the most was what makes us strong – or weak. Gentleness as strength. Radical kindness. Loving and leaning on someone allowing you to find your own strength and stand strong. What a beautiful story! And don’t be confused–the true villains certainly get their just deserts, but figuring out what that is and how to go about it is also part of our characters’ arc, and I loved that.

This is an adult romantasy, and it certainly hits the expected romance notes within a fabulously fantastical world, but there are also plenty of twists to keep you intrigued, and so much heart. Also! Crow friends, our hero nerding out over fountain pens, a troll housekeeper and the absolute best found family! What more could you want?

Highly recommend!”

Fair warning – this book IS romantasy, so there is a bit of spice, but honestly it’s pretty mild for the genre. Trigger warning also for death, childhood abuse, and what looks a lot like PTSD.

If you would like to join us, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for September!

September 24 at 7:00 PM ET

Fairy Tale Salon – Here is the info for our September Fairy-Tale Salon.

Prompt: Our Uncritically Loved Reads/Watches

Quest: Admit it – there’s some book, some movie, some TV show out there that you absolutely know is SO BAD… but you love it anyway. Maybe it’s a TV show you watched in your formative teen years that has aged like bad cheese. Maybe it’s a book you refuse to read on public transportation… but devour before bed. It could be a movie with the most unbelievable romance ever written that still, somehow, cheers you up every time you watch it. Or, to take it a slightly different route, maybe it’s a book/movie/etc that you think actually IS perfect… so much so that you just cannot tolerate any criticism on it at all because it makes you so upset! Let’s discuss our beloved little secrets.

If you’d like to join us, make sure that you’re on the Salonnières tier or higher on our Patreon for September!

Current Courses Available

Enchant ($497) – Enchant is an empowering five-week course that uses fairy tales, folklore, and a dash of science to help you unlock the magic that can exist in your everyday life.

Enchant helps you recover from burnout and shift out of survival mode by reconnecting with your voice, your autonomy, and your joy.

You Deserve An Enchanted Life.

Beauty. Magic. Confidence, kindness, and care. Ways to fight burnout and feel at home in your own skin.

You deserve to feel magnetic to yourself and those around you, to cackle with pure glee when you’re making something that brings you joy, to attract the kind of love that supports you in all of your bizarre and wonderful glory, and to discover exactly how to make your inner child delighted with the grown up you’ve become.

And guess what? You’re already good enough for all of that. Already worthy. Already magic. If you don’t see it yet, Enchant will help you remember.

If you’ve been feeling burned out, emotionally exhausted, and like your spark has dimmed…

If you’re struggling to carve out time to tend to your own needs…

If you want to feel lit up, energized, and powerful, all by unlocking the power of fairy tales and folklore…Enchant is for you.

Click here to grab it!

Find Your Fairy Tale Mini-Course ($17) – Find Your Fairy Tale is a bite-sized mini course made to help you connect genuinely with the world of fairy tales and tap into the personal stories that underpin your life – so that you can harness their power or even start to change them. We guarantee academic excellence, dedication to whimsy, and an avenue right into a real sense of everyday enchantment. 

Some people swear by their Enneagram (we’re both 3s) or their Zodiac sign (*waves in Virgo and Scorpio*). We’re all about fairy tales and the insights they reveal.

Click here to grab it!

Press

We did a delightful interview with Addie Hirschten for the Studio Alchemy podcast! Click here to read about it and listen.

Publications

Our “Chicken-Poem Principle” guide is currently on offer as part of The Polished Page Pack, 12 free resources curated by Carterhaugh student Laura Matney designed to help you get inspired, draft, revise, and polish your writing with confidence – and finally finish that book! As a bonus, for every person who subscribes to the pack, she is donating $1 to Friends of the Library, an organization that tirelessly advocates for the importance of libraries in our community. Click here to grab everything (but note that it’s all coming down on 9/15!)

Our poem “Our Glass Hearts,” based on an obscure but truly magical fairy tale called “The Three Sisters and Their Glass Hearts,” won the 2025 Fairy Tale Magazine poetry contest, and we are still screaming.

We had two poems published recently by two editors that we adore. You can read “A Choir in Gray” (written for our student Melinda) in Eternal Haunted Summer, edited by Rebecca Buchanan, right here. And you can find “Reliable Girls” (a joyful twist on “Diamonds and Toads”) in Worlds of Possibility, edited by Julia Rios, here. “Reliable Girls” also features in the Worlds of Possibility poetry anthology, which will be available for purchase everywhere soon!