I came into my queerness late in life. Well, later, at any rate, than the teenagers I wrote about in my sapphic YA fantasy, Sweet & Bitter Magic. Yet after I learned that my heart was not surrounded by a wall, but rather, a gate just waiting to be opened, after I met the woman who is now my wife, as I explored the world of women who love women, I realized there had always been something inherently sapphic about the way I had lived my life.
Adrienne Tooley
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Read an Excerpt From Sweet & Bitter Magic
A witch cursed to never love meets a girl hiding her own dangerous magic, and the two strike a dangerous bargain…
We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Sweet & Bitter Magic, the debut fantasy from author Adrienne Tooley—available March 9th from Margaret K. McElderry Books.