From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
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   Posted on January 10, 2015 by Debi Moore   
      
   Amber Benson is best known for portraying Tara in “Buffy the Vampire   
    Slayer,” but she has transitioned into a formidable author and filmmaker.   
   Her new book, 'The Witches of Echo Park', was released this week by Ace   
   Trade, and she’s on a whirlwind tour to promote it with just a few days   
   remaining.   
      
   She’s in New York today (1/11), and wraps things up in Houston on Monday   
   (1/12).  Read on for the details!   
      
   From the Press Release:   
   Amber Benson is what we call “a maker of things.” A prolific writer, she is   
   the author of the five-book Calliope Reaper-Jones urban fantasy series for   
   Penguin and the middle grade book Among the Ghosts for Simon and Schuster.   
   Behind the camera she co-directed the Slamdance feature film Drones and   
   (co-wrote) and directed the BBC animated series “The Ghosts of Albion.”   
      
   In her previous incarnation as an actor, she spent three years as lesbian   
   witch Tara Maclay on the cult television series “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,”   
   and later this year she will appear as head vamp Amelie in “Morganville: The   
   Series” for Geek & Sundry. Her new book, 'The Witches of Echo Park', came   
   out in early January 2015. Amber does not own a television.   
      
   Two cities are left on Amber’s tour schedule:   
   1/11/15 – MIDTOWN COMICS (Downtown) – New York City – 2:00 pm   
   1/12/15 – MURDER BY THE BOOK – Houston – 6:30 pm   
      
   Synopsis:   
   Unbeknownst to most of humankind, a powerful network of witches thrives   
   within the shadows of society, using their magic to keep the world in   
   balance. But they are being eliminated—and we will all pay if their power   
   falls.   
      
   When Lyse MacAllister’s Great Aunt Eleanora, the woman who raised her,   
   becomes deathly ill, Lyse puts her comfortable life in Georgia on hold to   
   rush back to Los Angeles. And once she’s back in Echo Park, Lyse discovers   
   her aunt has been keeping secrets—extraordinary secrets—from her.   
      
   Lyse is heir not only to Eleanora’s home, she is also expected to take her   
   great aunt’s place in the Echo Park coven of witches. But to accept her   
   destiny means to place herself in deadly peril—for the world of magic is   
   under siege, and the battle the witches now fight may be their last.   
      
      
      
   http://daviderl.com/AmberBenson.html .   
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