This forthcoming novel looks like it oughta be good. I’d never seen W.B. Belcher’s name before, but now have found him on the Web. He’s obviously folk music-inclined, as I saw posts there about Pete Seeger, Dave Van Ronk, and “Inside Lewyn Davis.”

I know the agency that represents him, and they have many great clients, like historian of magic and arcana Jim Steinmeyer, whose Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear, which I edited and published with him in 2003.