Thank you for reading Vengeful Magic, the eighth book in the White Haven Witches series.
I’m sure you’ve noticed that this book was told from multiple points of view. I was encouraged to do this by all of my fantastic readers who said they would love to have more insight into the other characters.
I must admit, I’d wanted to, especially after doing this with White Haven Hunters, but wondered how well this would be received, considering this is the eighth book! Hopefully you have loved the opportunity to get in the heads of the other witches, and of course Newton. I feel it’s given the characters and stories a new lease of life, and I’m fizzing to get started on the next novel in the series.
I had a lot of fun writing about pirates. Cornwall is awash with pirate tales, and many of the places I refer to do exist, such as the Charlestown Shipwreck Treasure Museum and Jamaica Inn Smuggling Museum. Obviously the characters associated with them do not exist, and I’m sure there’s no skulduggery among the archives! Wheal Droskyn in Perranporth exists too, and in fact there are hundreds of mines all across Cornwall.
Cruel Coppinger was a real pirate who landed on the north Cornish coast during a storm, and he became notorious for his cruelty. His story was embellished by the Reverend Robert Stephen Hawker, who collected legends. Zephaniah Job was also a real person who kept the financial records for pirates, and his ledgers were burnt following his death.
If you’d like to read a bit more background to the stories, please head to my website, www.
Now for the thanks I owe everyone who helped me produce this book.
I decided to run a competition in my newsletter and Facebook Inner Circle for a name for the parapsychologists. I had some fantastic suggestions and ended up narrowing it down to eight that had the final vote. Ghost OPS won by a big margin! Thank you Margaret Meyer for your awesome suggestion!
Thanks again to Fiona Jayde Media for my awesome cover, and thanks to Kyla Stein at Missed Period Editing for applying her fabulous editing skills.
Thanks also to my beta readers, glad you enjoyed it; your feedback, as always, is very helpful!
Finally, thank you to my launch team, who give valuable feedback on typos and are happy to review on release. It’s lovely to hear from them—you know who you are! You’re amazing! I also love hearing from all my readers, so I welcome you to get in touch.
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