Meet W.A. Simpson, author of The Hatters Daughter, at Bethany Beach Books on Sunday, June 29th at 6:30pm.

W. A. Simpson

Wendy A. Simpson has been writing since the age of five when a family friend gave her an old typewriter. After finishing her first novel at fourteen, she realized mystery wasn’t her thing, and a story by Ray Bradbury turned her towards fantasy. She is the author of Tinderbox and Tarotmancer, the first two books in her series ‘Tales from the Riven Isles’. Tinderbox made the Top 100 on the Amazon Best Sellers List in Black & African American Fantasy Fiction, and won the 2022 GOLD Fantasy Foreword Reviews Indie Award.
Wendy considers herself to be the world’s biggest bibliophile and the original Delaware Native. When she's not writing, she indulges in her favorite pastimes, which include reading, working in her garden, and video gaming and streaming on Twitch as Runic Nightshade. Proud to consider herself an original Delaware Native, she shares her home with her older brother, whom she affectionately refers to as Big Brother and two diva cats, Cinnamon and Spice.
www.authorwasimpson.com / Instagram: @authorwasimpson52 / X: @AuthorWASimpson

The Hatters Daughter

In a wonderland where the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat rule, The Rot threatens the sanity and lives of all...

An “expansive magical adventure” – Publishers Weekly on Tinderbox, Book 1 of ‘Tales from the Riven Isles’

The Hatter's Daughter is the third book set in W.A. Simpson's Riven Isles universe.

There is more to the Vine than mortals and immortals know. It reaches its branches and tendrils into realms beyond the Riven Isles. On the night Faith was born, her mother perished, but not before sending Faith to safety, in Underneath. Discovered by The Mad Hatter, he takes Faith home to raise as his own. When the Rot invades, Faith determines to fight. She won’t do it alone. Her childhood friend, Prince Rowan accompanies her. Faith must return to her birthplace to find a Legendary Heroine. But Overland is dangerous, and the minions of the Rot are in pursuit. If she doesn’t succeed, the minions of the Rot will destroy everything they know.

For comparisons, think The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow, or After Alice by Gregory Maguire. And, of course, Lewis Carroll's, Alice in Wonderland.

Tales from the Riven Isles is a dark fantasy series set in a world outside of our own, where the characters of myth and fairy-tales exist, and their legends live on. Featuring the novels: 'Tinderbox', 'Tarotmancer', and 'The Hatter's Daughter'.