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Boston's magical community is cursed with a snarky private detective.

Private Investigator Hemlock Connal has a problem with her assistants. They all die... violently. When Morgan Burns became her new intern, they both wonder if he'll meet a similar tragic end.

As Hemlock and Morgan embark on a case together, she teaches about the unseen and blended landscape of magic. Hemlock introduces Morgan to grungy pixies, Fae royals, and the annoyingly bad musical talents of a half-demon.

Hemlock does her best to help Morgan quickly adapt to his broadening world to keep the two things he needs most: his life and a paycheck.

Can he survive Hemlock's sarcastic nature, dealing with murderers and magical creatures? Or will Hemlock just get another dead intern?

Another Dead Intern is the inaugural in a humorous supernatural mystery series!

If you like absurd detective comedies, macabre humor, and paranormal investigations, then you'll love the first installment in Joel Spriggs's hilarious urban fantasy thrill ride. Buy Another Dead Intern to start the madcap fantastical adventure today!

Alright, by now you're past the sales pitch and you've clicked that read more link. If you've made it this far, I'm curious how much more you're really willing to read on about this before making a decision to buy my book.

Want to know something? This was all originally a joke. Back in 2018, I had wrapped up my other book Over a God's Dead Body, and I was still pitching it before publication. I hopped on Twitter and found a pitmad event where you give an elevator pitch and see if agents will pick you up to help you out.

So, I spent a week writing pitches, paring them down, honing the words. Then I spent an entire day trying to pitch it in a way that would make an agent say, "yes, that's a best seller! I want to rep you!"

Long story short, that didn't happen and I was feeling a bit dejected at the end of the day. So I just made a joke pitch tweet using as many urban fantasy tropes as I could think up. I don't have the tweet anymore, but it was something like, "a recent college grad takes an internship with a supernatural private eye. Is risking death, dealing with witches, wizards, drugs and murder worth the experience?"

People started liking that tweet. I had written it out a place of pure frustration to be one of the most gawd awful cliche kinds of things I could dream up. But, you know what? It turned out to be a fantastically fun thing to write too. I had a great time dreaming up Hemlock and Morgan. I enjoyed putting them in mortal perils and finding ways that the mundane would meet the magical while they paraded around Boston to figure out their case.

Personally, I had to add that part where Morgan hops out of a teleportation portal right into the path of the peeing dog because those scenes in other books and movies were always so darned clean cut about people just getting there and nothing in the environment causing an issue. It's been a blast, and I have plans for more in this series. Heck, there's already a holiday story that has Santa and Zombies!

Anyway, if you like the dark humor, macabre comedy, crude satire, poignant parody, nasty pixies and sarcastic fairies, you'll love this book. Honestly, the way I've written both, if you liked Over a God's Dead Body, the stories and characters could easily exist in the same universe, so just think of them as casts that haven't met... yet. More Hemlock and Morgan to come, along with Bob, Queen Fand, the Druggist, Yamata and all the folks you'll meet in Another Dead Intern. I hope you'll come back for those too!