Leslie Scott Talks Black Water Magic

How did Leslie Scott came up with the title, Black Water Magic?

This answer comes two fold. For starters, we have the easy answer. Blackwater is my protagonist’s last name and … she’s a witch.

The more complicated answer is: the idea came to me, at a bar. Quite literally, a bar my parents owned in Huntsville, AL. And that bar was named after a song by Jim Stafford which was written about an old Cajun legend about a swamp witch. I actually didn’t know about the song or the legend until I started writing the book. So, don’t expect Black Water Magic to have anything at all to do with either of those things. More, it harkens back to that bar.

Blackwater Hattie’s was an eclectic biker bar erected in an old Burger King building. My stepmom ran the place and my dad was like some sort of unofficial mascot who held a weekly metal night and filled the place full of would be head bangers (side note, my dad loves music and is a really amazing blues harp player). It consumed their lives and was likely the demise of their marriage. However, it had a super cool mural of a swamp witch on the front windows (remember when Burger King building had all of that glass on the front) to black them out.

There was also a tiki bar on the back patio, which was really just a fenced off piece of the old parking lot. The place was a total dive, but one we all loved.

After publishing a few novels, I found a bunch of old pictures of that place (which much like my dad’s marriage, had been bulldozed) and felt rather nostalgic. And from the nostalgia, the story for Black Water Magic was born.

If you are reading this, consider yourself clued in to an important Easter Egg in the Black Water Magic universe. Lyrsa, the bartending vampress, bares a striking resemblance to Lisa – my favorite stepmom (I’ve had quite a few of them) and best damn bartender in the south.

About Black Water Magic

Black Water Magic by Leslie Scott
Genre: Paranormal Urban Fantasy

Synopsis

Teagan Blackwater’s biggest problem used to be hiding her relationship with a demi-demon from her grandmother, Nola, the most powerful witch in all of Florida.

When Nola is murdered, Teagan learns how insignificant her secret really was. And how rare it is she only had the one. Firewater Springs is a small town, and every one of its residents seems to have secrets of their own. Including the friendly cop Teagan had a crush on in high school and the Demi-demon she’s been sleeping with.

But the person with the most secrets was Nola herself, and Teagan needs to unravel them to break a curse and solve Nola’s murder. It’s no secret Teagan doesn’t feel up to the task, but she is the new Swamp Witch of Firewater Springs, so what choice does she have? Everyone is counting on her.

No pressure.

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About Leslie Scott

Award winning author, Leslie Scott thrives in the middle of chaos. Not because she home schools her son and rides herd over the family’s zoo of indoor pets or listens to her soul mate wax poetically about all things car and related. Oh, no. That’s nothing. The real chaos is the characters in her mind, elbowing and tripping each other to get to the front of the line so they can be the next romantic couple in one of her stories. Her family is her passion. Writing is her dream.