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Quill Me Now (The ABCs of Spellcraft Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Jordan Castillo Price (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.2 867 ratings

Book 1 of 14: The ABCs of Spellcraft

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What if the words you wrote came true?

Spellcraft isn’t exactly a respectable business, but it does pay the bills. At least, it should. Unfortunately, Dixon Penn failed his Spellcraft initiation. Instead of working in his family’s shop, he’s stuck delivering takeout orders in his uncle’s beat-up Buick.

Winning a Valentine’s Day contest at the largest greeting card company in the tri-state area would be just the thing to get his life back on track—but something at Precious Greetings just doesn’t add up. And despite numerous warnings to quit pestering them about his contest entry, he simply can’t stop himself from coming back again and again.

It doesn’t hurt that the head of security is such a hottie. If Dixon had any common sense, he’d be scared of the big, mysterious, tattooed Russian.

To be fair, no one ever accused him of being too smart….

The ABCs of Spellcraft is a series filled with bad jokes and good magic, where MM Romance meets Paranormal Cozy. A perky hero, a brooding love interest, and delightfully twisty-turny stories that never end up quite where you’d expect.

Quill Me Now originally debuted in the Bad Valentine collection, along with Love Magic by Jesi Lea Ryan, Hidden Hearts by Clare London, and Temporary Dad by Dev Bentham.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07MJZJDQ3
Publisher ‏ : ‎ JCP Books LLC (February 1, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 996 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 73 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #358,137 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #630 in LGBTQ+ Action & Adventure
- #736 in Two-Hour LGBTQ+ Short Reads
- #973 in Two-Hour Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Reads

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Author and artist Jordan Castillo Price writes paranormal adventures colored by her time in the Midwest, from inner city Chicago, to various cities across southern Wisconsin. She’s settled in a 1910 Cape Cod near Lake Michigan with tons of character and a plethora of bizarre spiders. Any disembodied noises, she’s decided, will be blamed on the ice maker.

Jordan is best known as the author of the PsyCop series, an unfolding tale of paranormal mystery and suspense starring Victor Bayne, a gay medium who's plagued by ghostly visitations. And her quirky, sweet, magical series The ABCs of Spellcraft is sure to make you smile.

Find out more at www.jordancastilloprice.com

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Robert A. Ross

A wonderfully magical read

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2024

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I novel story and approach to a magic filled world. I thoroughly enjoyed this easy read and am looking forward to reading the mini story before starting on the second book in the series.

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2023

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This was a quick but fun story. It seems like the beginning to a good series and I can't wait to read more.

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2019

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I grabbed this one from a free Bookfunnel or Prolific Works promotion as it sounded fun. And then when I was looking for something fun to read I picked this one up. It was a pretty fun and quick read. It was a bit ridiculous/ funny at times, the world building didn't make sense to me and the way things got build was quite confusion. But it had an interesting set-up and even with the things that bothered me I still had fun reading it.

Quill Me Now is told mostly from the point of view of Dixon. He is part of the Penn family in whose blood runs the power of being Scrivener's. Scriveners can write and their words have powers. Oh but they also need a Seer to paint, else it doesn't work. Dixon failed his initiation, which never happens, so now he delivers people their meals instead. Until one day he decides to take a chance at a greeting card content and gets entangles into something bigger.

This was quite the fun read, but at the same time it was just a bit weird. There were also some ridiculous parts. Behavior that didn't make sense and seemed over the top at first. But it sort of makes sense later. There were a few things that didn't fully get explained or made sense, but mostly I was able to enjoy the story even with that. The plot was interesting enough and I liked how things got resolved.

The romance literally goes from basically zero with some mutual attraction to hot. So fast that it was almost funny, but I think that was the point? It was kinda funny I guess and it made sense, but it was hard to really take things seriously or really feel the romance with the way it develop. But strangely enough it also kinda worked for the way this story set-up and developed.

The world building was just confusing. We get pieces spread throughout the book, but in such a way that I totally got the wrong impression of the world multiple times. Like these really big things for understanding how the world works get mentioned pretty late in the story. Until 70% of the story I thought the Handless (those without magic) weren't aware magic existed and only toward the end we learn there actually is a legal department that covers the use of magic. I had to rework my whole image of the world multiple times and it was just confusing as I couldn't get a good grasp on the world.

I did like the idea of the whole words have power thing, but at the same time the world that was build around it seemed way too normal. Why wasn't this power feared more? And in which ways did this world develop differently with this magic? Also why did no one ever wonder why Dixon failed the test as it is established multiple times this should've been impossible? Why did no one look into this? And what is the role of free will when words can influence your behavior?

To summarize: This was a fun and quick read set in a world where words have power. Dixon comes from a scrivener family, but lacks the power himself. In this story he stumbles upon a greeting card contest and get entangled into a bigger conspiracy. The plot was interesting enough and I liked how things got resolved. There were some things that didn't quite make sense, but overall I still had fun reading this one. The romance develops quite quickly and suddenly in a way that was almost funny. I think it was meant to be funny. It kinda worked here. The world building was quite confusing, I had trouble getting a good grasp on the world and had to make some bit revisions to my idea of the world multiple times when suddenly much later we learn a big important piece. Like how normal people know of magic wasn't revealed until 70% in the story. All in all I still mostly enjoyed reading this even tough I had a lot of questions.

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Natalie Nicole

Perfect reading delight Book 1 and definitely something that chased my year 2020 blues away!

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2020

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Ahhhh, Dixon Penn! Has there ever been a sweeter guy in the M/M genre? I'm totally sold out on people that are all goodness and light! They suffuse me with energy, unlike all others. Imagine my surprise to find a fictional character that lifts my spirits in a similar fashion. During the year 2020, I found myself needing the kind of wonderful optimism that the character Dixon embodies. In 'Quill Me Now', we find that Dixon is from a family of Spellcrafters but he'd failed his initiation. He's not doing well financially as his uncle Fonzo, the Hand of his family--leader of their Spellcrafting clan, had taken off to parts unknown. Poor Dixon and his cousin Sabina are forced to live in the attic in order to rent out the lower portion of the family home. Dixon enters a Valentine's Day contest at a greeting card company but all isn't well there, even with the head of security--the hugely handsome Russian named Yuri that thrills Dixon to no end. Of course, I was on board with Dixon from the very beginning! I wanted every happiness for him! So I found my self yelling, moaning, cheering, crying throughout this entire book. That Dixon winds up with his Spellcrafting quill as well as the talented, intelligent, taciturn, and sexy Yuri was two very awesome outcomes of the story. By the time this book was over, I found that I had fallen completely in love with Yuri, too! Thanks for such a sweet read, Jordan Castillo Price!

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Ben in oakland

Gay and magical

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2019

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It’s a fun story, and it’s nice to have a gay protagonist in a genre that almost never has anyone gay, even as a minor character. It was a simple and enjoyable read.

My only criticism is that spell crafting is not given very much of an explanation, and how it fits into the non-magical world is pretty sketchy. If I were writing the story myself, I would make it longer and try to flesh out the characters and their world a bit more. For example, Dixon seems to be a bit of a bubble head. I get a good view of him as a contemporary gay young man, but he doesn’t seem to have anything else about him than that. His problem as a scrivener is certainly understandable, but I don’t get much of a sense of how it affects him apart from not being able to get a job doing what he wants to do.

I think the basic idea of the story is quite good, but it needs a lot more to it to be very good writing and storytelling.

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2019

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I love this author’s style of writing. Even though this is a short story it’s jammed packed with a deep plot and strong characters. The MC is Dixon but he has a strong supporting cast that help carry the story through to the end, or should I hopefully say, to the next book in the series. The story begins with my heart going out to Dixon thinking he’ll never be a Scrivener. Instead he’s marked as the first in his family to fail the Quilling Ceremony. Now he’s stuck delivering fast food and living in a cramped converted attic with his cousin. His big chance to escape his mundane existence is to enter a contest writing a Valentines Day card slogan with a $1000 as the grand prize. Much to his cousin’s chagrin he enters it. This is the beginning of a magical Valentines Day romance like no other. We get Scriveners, and Seers, and magic, oh my! And just enough romance to whet my appetite. I cannot wait for the next book in this series!

Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2021

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I was curious about this series as I am a huge fan of the Psycop series and this one is so different. This is a sort of magical cozy mystery. It has an interesting premise though a bit more set up on the world building would have been helpful.

I liked Dixon and Yuri and enjoyed the cleverness of thinking about words and their meanings. I will read more in this series.

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Amazing Catstomer

Magic

Reviewed in Germany on March 9, 2022

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Hat mir super gut gefallen! Das erste Buch, das ich von der Autorin gelesen habe, und ich war hin und weg. Was fuer eine Vorstellungskraft! Inzwischen besitze ich fast alle Teile und auch die Hoerbucher, damit ich alles noch einmal neu erleben kann. Sehr zu empfehlen!

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Fenriz Angelo

It was an easy, enjoyable read by JCP

Reviewed in Mexico on February 22, 2019

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...but not my fav of hers tbh.
I like the magic aspect of it, I think JCP used her graphic design background to build it and it's honestly a cool premise. I kinda liked the characters but I feel that they were underdeveloped due to the length of the story and the circumstances both characters were I'm. However JCP says there's more of these two so I hope we get to see a full novel next time because I wouldn't mind knowing more.

K.H.

Magical words

Reviewed in Canada on February 5, 2019

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This was such a fun and exciting little short with a great bit of magic involved! Dixon is supposed to be a spellcrafter, able to make things happen when written with magical will. But he unexpectedly failed and now is barely able to make ends meet. He tries to win a contest at a greeting card factory for a cash prize but things are very odd there. Soon his persistence leads him to find out that nothing is as it seems at the company and some even people may even need his help. Dixon is persistent and surprisingly optimistic despite his current situation. Having let himself down elsewhere in life he is not willing to let this go and works for it. The surprising Yuri does not say much, but is a fascinating counterpoint to Dixon and his optimism. Very excited to see more of these two in future stories!

Terry Bowen

Spellc crafting romance

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2019

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The world that Jordan has created is amazing. I was very happy to see that there will be more from this world, and it's characters in the future as I want to see where this will go and what will happen next. Getting ahead of myself though, and returning to this story, it was one I couldn't put down. I fell for Dixon Penn and his cousin, Sabina, from the start. Stuck with what they had, but with a make do attitude, they made the most of everything.

The romance in this one was a slow burner for me. It played second to the story, and we didn't meet the love interest until sometime later in the story, but that was okay. I was more than happy to be swept up in this world, and then the romance when it happened. This was another story which made me smile and get lost in their world.

Dokun 888

Cute story

Reviewed in Canada on June 5, 2019

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So I liked the story XD although I would have preferred the narrative to stay from Dixon (just don't like when first person narrative switches back and forth) . Also, loved the concept of magic in this story and it was very interesting to read about Dixon's writing thought process. But. I totally didn't get what Dixon uncle has done XDD I have theories but I'm still confused.

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