FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 29, 2004
LISA SILVERMAN OF PMA SELLS THREE MYSTERIES
BY MADELYN ALT TO BERKLEY
BY MADELYN ALT TO BERKLEY
Lisa Silverman, Associate at PMA Literary and Film Management, Inc., is proud to announce the sale of U.S. and Canadian rights to The Trouble With Magic and two more books in Madelyn Alt's new paranormal mystery series to Esther Strauss at Berkley Prime Crime, in a nice deal.
Margaret Mary-Catherine O'Neill was a good God-fearing Catholic who went to church on Sundays just like everyone else in Stony Mill, Indiana. Now Maggie is a grown up lapsed Catholic with a basement apartment, a dull, dead-end job, and a mother and sister who never fail to point out her shortcomings.
When Maggie takes shelter from a rainstorm one day in a gift shop called Enchantments, she suddenly finds herself with a new job and a new outlook. Only one catch: her new boss, Felicity Dow, is a self-proclaimed witch. A good, goddess-worshipping witch, but a witch nonetheless. And witches aren't exactly welcome in Stony Mill, Indiana.
Maggie's budding friendship with Felicity and the ghost-hunting misfits who make up her “coven” lead her to recognize empathic talents of her own, and when Felicity is arrested for murder, Maggie must use all of her powers—both earthly and unearthly—to prove her friend innocent. Getting in the way is handsome Deputy Sheriff Tom Fielding, who pursues a romance with Maggie even as he tries to prove Felicity guilty.
The Trouble With Magic is the first in a proposed series of Maggie O'Neill mysteries, the next two of which are included in this deal. The series will follow the protagonist's journey from lapsed Catholic through her discovery of the Craft and the Goddess as a sudden onslaught of murders is mirrored by a growing level of psychic disturbances in the area.
For more information, contact Peter Miller, PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc. at 212.929.1222 or
