S. A. Sizemore

August 29, 2026 - We are now one month away from the beginning of something different, something timeless, something unusual. Something that won't let go after you read it. The Salem Witch Trials weren’t a land grab. They weren’t triggered by a hallucinogenic fungus. They weren’t even about witchcraft. The Salem witch panic was manifested by one family. Mine. A story 400 years in the making starts this September. Shall we begin? To celebrate the upcoming release of Whispers of the Pale...

Time in the Beckett Coven series can be deceptive. Are we experiencing the present, or is it the past? Is it something our future selves are reliving, or are our ancestors sending us visions of what will be? Although time in Whispers of the Pale Witch appears to be pretty linear, things are about to go off the rails as we head into book 2, Lies of the Bishop Stone, in 2027. Just remember as you read Whispers, it truly is the first in a three-book arc. Things that may seem unimportant right...

I am a Salem Witch Trials descendant. That means one or more of my ancestors were either someone who was accused of being a witch, someone who accused them, or they were part of the court proceedings. For most of my life, I had no idea. In 2019 my wife and I decided to visit New England so I could do some research for a book series I was beginning to write about modern day witches in Salem. Two weeks before we left on that trip, I was in the middle of doing some genealogy research for a...