Today, my Accidental Alchemist Mysteries are launching in Germany!
Today also happens to be my 11 year anniversary of finishing cancer treatments, and this shared celebration is pretty fitting, since I wrote a first draft of The Accidental Alchemist while going through chemotherapy—yup, my subconscious thought of it as my own Elixir of Life.
Piper Verlag is publishing the book in Germany. The Accidental Alchemist’s German title is Alchemistin wider Willen, (Reluctant Alchemist) and the series is renamed The Incredible Cases of Zoe Faust.
The second book in the series, The Masquerading Magician (Geister der Vergangenheit), will be out this fall. This is my first book that’s been translated into German. It’s such fun to see Zoe, Dorian, and the whole gang reaching this new audience!
Here's the German description from Piper Verlag:
Alchemistin wider Willen (Die unglaublichen Fälle der Zoe Faust 1)
Alchemistin Zoe Faust hat aus Versehen den Stein der Weisen entdeckt und lebt nun schon seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. Gerade hat sie sich in Portland ein altes Farmhaus gekauft, als sie von einem verzweifelten Gargoyle aufgesucht wird, der dringend ihre Hilfe braucht und droht, Zoes Leben auf den Kopf zu stellen. Als kurz darauf ein Schreiner, der Zoes Haus renovieren soll, unter mysteriösen Umständen tot auf ihrer Veranda gefunden wird, muss Zoe alles dafür tun, ihr übernatürliches Geheimnis vor der Polizei zu verbergen — und zudem mit dem sympathischen Detective Max eine alte Mordserie lösen.
Which roughly translates to:
Alchemist Zoe Faust accidentally discovered the Philosopher's Stone and has been alive since the 18th century. She has just bought an old farmhouse in Portland when she is visited by a desperate gargoyle who urgently needs her help and threatens to turn Zoe's life upside down. When a carpenter assigned to renovate Zoe's house is mysteriously found dead on her porch, Zoe must do whatever it takes to keep her supernatural secret from the police — and solve an old murder spree with the likeable Detective Max.
What fun!