Candlemark & Gleam is delighted to announce that we’re bringing Sarah Avery’s 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Winner Tales from Rugosa Coven back into print in a new and revised edition. This volume of three linked novellas detailing the lives of a coven of contemporary Wiccans living on the Jersey Shore has a well-deserved reputation as being both an all-too-true depiction of coven life and an engaging work of contemporary fantasy. We’re looking forward to introducing it to a new set of readers on its release in summer 2026!

Each novella tells the story of one of the coven’s members, beginning with the personal-injury lawyer who chose kitchen-witchery over his family’s long lineage of ceremonial magic. He’d like to miss his dead parents, only now that they’re dead they won’t leave him alone… Then there’s the professional fortuneteller, dressed in the height of Goth fashion and covered with silver amulets, who’s hiding an increasingly terrifying problem. And all the while, her covenmates think of her as comic relief. And finally there’s the reluctant Pagan, the coven’s resident skeptic, who will have to eat her words if her coven sister’s new boyfriend really does turn out to be from Atlantis.

Grounded in both the Jersey Shore and and the complexities of Pagan practice, Avery’s stories offer both compelling plots and unexpected depth as the coven members negotiate the tangles of their magical and mundane lives. We’re delighted to make it available again.