Join author Amber Elby to celebrate the release of her new novel, Double Double Toil, the sequel to Cauldron’s Bubble. Enjoy a reading and Q&A session with Amber and special guest Nori Rose, as they explore new twists on old tales.

Amber Elby was born in Grand Ledge, Michigan but spent much of her childhood in the United Kingdom. She began writing when she was three years old and created miniature books by asking her family how to spell every, single, word. Several years later, she saw her first Shakespearean comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, in London. Many years later, she studied Creative Writing at Michigan State University’s Honors College before earning her Master of Fine Arts degree in Screenwriting at the University of Texas at Austin. She currently resides in Texas with her husband and two daughters and spends her time teaching, traveling, and getting lost in imaginary worlds.

Nori Rose is a writer, poet, multimedia artist, Witch, and unabashed Scorpio who draws inspiration from both sides of the Veil. She graduated with honors from Austin Community College in 2014 with an Associate of Arts in Creative Writing, and earned a BA in English & Creative Writing from the University of Texas in 2017. While at UT, she participated in the Digital Storytelling Workshop and published two theses: a critical examination of human-animal interdependency in Life Of Pi (basically, she spent a year writing 60 pages on why the tiger is really a person) and a creative writing thesis which included an excerpt of her forthcoming novel, The Dreaming Hour. Her work has been published in The Rio Review, Feminine Inquiry, Musings of a #LonelyFeminist, Hothouse, and online in Gingerbread House Literary Magazine and Corvid Queen. Her poem “Sluts” was featured at the 2015 Art As Activism showcase hosted by the Gender & Sexuality Center at UT Austin, and her poetry has been incorporated into an improv dance showcase. She was a 2016 Writers in New York participant at New York University, has lead workshops on Professional Writing and Dark Fantasy to Austin-area youth, and is currently working with other Witches and creatives to produce a zine for the times we’re upon. When not writing, making art and dismantling the patriarchy, she reads Tarot, collects tattoos, and bakes things with flowers. An eighth generation Texan, she lives in the Austin area with her husband, two rescue cats, a rescue dog, and a blue tongue skink.