Price: $39.95
Page Count: 274
Publication Date: February 2027
ISBN: 978-1-77258-617-6
Witches and magic and family strife and love and generational influence and surprises at every turn: that’s what you’re in for with Spells to Start Believing, a truly compelling and original book. I read it mesmerized, all the way through, at the clever and beautiful prose, at the author’s vulnerability and resiliency, at the way these lyrical vignettes create a constellation of all the strange, interconnected experiences that make a life.
–Patrick Madden, Brigham Young University
Not your typical witch memoir. With mesmerizing prose, Sasha illuminates the ambiguous loss of her mother, the same woman who introduces her to magic. This is a raw, compelling story that explores an atypical mother-daughter bond, and how the human heart processes wounds for which we don't have simple names. Vivid, grounding, and exquisitely clear — especially for a book about the mystical.
– Diana Helmuth, author of The Witching Year
Sasha Bailyn is the Editor-in-Chief of Inglenook Lit, an online magazine for magic and mysticism. Spells to Start Believing is her first book. She is the recipient of the IAFA David G. Hartwell Emerging Scholar Award, and her creative nonfiction, fiction, and scholarship can be found in print and online in journals such as Tupelo Quarterly, The Maine Review, The Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts, and Wayne State University Press’s Marvels & Tales.
