The Garden of Abracadabra, Book 3: The Right Road (The Garden of Abracadabra Trilogy)

Wallis Budge, Lewis Spence, and others and is so powerful everyone in the world has heard of the word. Tell us about your book, The Garden of Abracadabra. To support herself through school, she signs on as the superintendent of the Garden of Abracadabra, a mysterious, magical apartment building on campus.

She discovers that all of her tenants are some stripe of supernatural entity—witches, shapeshifters, vampires, and wizards—and that each apartment is a fairyland or hell. Abby will discover the first secrets of an ancient and ongoing war between humanity and the demonic realms, uncover mysteries of her own troubled past, and learn that the lessons of Real Magic may spell the difference between her own life or death.

How would you categorize The Garden of Abracadabra? The book, the first of a trilogy, possibly a series, is squarely within the subgenre of Urban Fantasy. I love this subgenre, which falls within Fantasy and first became recognized about ten years ago. What is Urban Fantasy? Books I adored when I first began to read as a child have shaped my love of Urban Fantasy.

Supernatural people in a real-world setting and wise articulate animals in all four volumes of P. I took all of these books lovingly wrapped in plastic with me to college in Ann Arbor and lugged them all the way to California where they sit on my bookshelf to this day.

Did anything in particular inspire you? Like every author on the verge of a special, big new project, I well remember that transcendent moment of first inspiration for The Garden of Abracadabra. Often inspiration springs from something quotidian, mundane. Or shopping for groceries. Or going for a jog. Or, in this instance, searching for a parking place in Berkeley. Berkeley is a small historic university town across the Bay from San Francisco. The town is so crowded now, searching for a parking place on the street is something of a quixotic quest.

As Tom and I cruised through unfamiliar neighborhoods looking for that elusive space, we passed by a spectacular s Mediterranean apartment building and were both instantly struck by its beauty. But more than that, the place had a powerful vibe or atmosphere. It was downright spooky! The idea sprang instantly: To a fairyland or a hell?

I knew I had my book! So, okay, you had a magical apartment building and a super. I wanted more plot, more tension, more strength to the heroine.

Abby Teller is a vital, lively, witty woman and she needed an excellent reason for signing on for a mundane job like that. She needs a job with flexible hours and a lot of independence. And she must learn to master her power to save her life. And what is Real Magic?

Abby Teller must learn Real Magic to defend herself against the Horde, gangster-sorcerers who murdered her father when she was a child of eight. As research I consulted several volumes in my own library, including Real Magic by R. Investigate and research issues, then exercise your own judgment and will. Only then may you practice Real Magic in the real world. Yet how many people allow themselves to be whipsawed by the media? Not to mention by other people? Her grief and guilt seriously compromise her ability to master her power.

You have a lot of detail about the apartment building. Is that based on the mysterious building you glimpsed in Berkeley? Partially, and also on The Garden of Allah. This was a Mediterranean apartment complex with bungalows and a pool in Hollywood. Sheilah and her lover, F.

Scott Fitzgerald, also spent a great deal of time there. I loved the idea of an apartment building inhabited not by famous actors and writers, but by all sorts of supernatural people and entities! As you would expect of a crowd of professional exhibitionists living in close quarters, the Hollywood denizens of the Garden of Allah were infamous for their shenanigans.

Is the Garden of Allah still around? No, urban development in Los Angeles moved on after the war years. The Garden of Allah fell into disrepair and was leveled in the s. A strip mall and parking lot were built over the grave of the beautiful Mediterranean apartment complex.

They paved Paradise, put up a parking lot. I read about the connection recently in an article in The Hollywood Reporter. Every year I receive an email from THR begging me to renew my free subscription! Abby is searching for true love. Their relationship has been floundering, anyway. So Abby returns her engagement ring, but not without misgivings. Abby is also searching for her own identity. Every person with magical power whom she meets when she arrives in Berkeley is shocked when she introduces herself. Because, they tell her, Abby Teller is legendary and Abby Teller is dead.

Why does everyone in the World of Magic believe this strange story? And how did they learn of it? Stop me before I give away any more plot spoilers! People need to read the book! And you say The Garden of Abracadabra is just the first book of a series? Depending on how wide a readership the three books receive, I may then proceed with another set of three books. Same for Kim Harrison and the Rachel Morgan books.

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Jim Butcher, on the other hand, is still going strong with the Dresden Files after twenty-plus books. Same for Laurell K. Hamilton and her Anita Blake books. Both of those authors have expanded their original premise—a supernatural detective—beyond strict Urban Fantasy, with Butcher incorporating high fantasy tropes into the mix and Hamilton resorting more and more to porn.

Career-wise, I think an author will do well to develop a series, or at least a trilogy, for a concept that fits into a recognized genre like Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, or Science Fiction. The trick, though, is keep the momentum going. These were both chosen by Gordon Van Gelder. This story was chosen by the present editor, C.

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