Press & Audio

Interview on the Paranormal Podcast with Jim Harold, episode 165, November 8, 2010.

The Comedy Point with Soul Joel interview (podcast available on iTunes), October 19, 2010.

Check out the Petty Magic-themed playlist at Largehearted Boy.

Read a Petty Magic Q&A at Blue Truck Book Reviews.

There's also a Mary Modern Q&A from July 2007 at Ingram.

Camille was interviewed by NPR's Liane Hansen on Weekend Edition Sunday on September 9, 2007. Listen here.

This isn't book-related, but if you're interested in knitting and/or 'make do and mend', listen to Camille's essay on Cast On with Brenda Dayne (Episode 83: Rinse. Repeat.), from July 2009.


Praise for Petty Magic

"Love, magic, history, witches: it's all here, between the covers of this lovely book. Updike might have written it, if he'd had a better sense of humor."
--Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish

"A charming curiosity shop of a novel, packed to bursting with secret histories and glittering marvels. With Petty Magic, Camille DeAngelis has given us a glimpse into a strange and enchanting world. It's dangerous good fun, and well worth getting lost in."
--Jedediah Berry, author of The Manual of Detection

"A moving and witty love story...charming prose."
--Publishers Weekly

"Part Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, part Bedknobs and Broomsticks, DeAngelis's second novel uses witchcraft to illuminate a woman whose wrinkles belie the passionate, adventurous girl she still is on the inside. Recommended for fans of magical realism--emphasis on the magic."
--Library Journal

"Camille DeAngelis's tale of love and magic is the perfect read in every way. Evelyn is truly one of the most enchanting characters I've encountered in a while and the flow of the story is such that it just begs to be read all at once. An amusing and fabulously rich tale of witches and true love."
--Bookbitch


Praise for Mary Modern

"Superbly creepy, original and well-executed...a grandly successful experiment in fiction."
--Joy Tipping, The Dallas Morning News

"Swift, witty and endlessly amusing...Partly because of the pacing, partly because of the story, but mostly because DeAngelis makes the reader care terribly about Mary, and what happens to her, the novel turns out to be difficult, if not impossible, to put down."
--Kit Reed, The Hartford Courant

"On a sentence-by-sentence, word-by-word level, this is a gorgeously executed novel. Step back a bit and the structure is equally intricate and well-wrought, cutting back and forth between then and now and then-as-now. DeAngelis is delight to read, and it quickly becomes apparent that we're reading not science fiction, per se, but rather a gentle gothic."
--Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column (full review)

"DeAngelis is wonderfully inventive...She is gifted in description and pleasingly unpredictable in her plot...It's delightfully strange."
--Claudia Smith Brinson, The State

"What tugs a reader into this story is the time-travel setting -- a rambling old house that hasn't changed much in years. And the relationships are fascinating -- among the grandmother (Mary), the granddaughter (Lucy) and her boyfriend (Gray). The U.S. government's Orwellian attitude toward science adds spice to this intriguing, unusual novel."
--Jacqueline Blais, USA TODAY

"Compelling and horrific...Lucy's story of love and ambition will appeal not only to fans of gothic romance but also to book groups, whose discussions of bioethics, social responsibility, personal freedom, and the biological nature of memory will last into the wee hours."
--Booklist (starred review)

"Mary Modern is an eerie and haunting look at one family. It conjures up possibilities one rarely considers. You'll remember this novel and look forward to DeAngelis' next book."
--Andrea Sisco, Armchair Interviews

"This elegantly written work touches on issues that plague modern life, and though it gives you ample opportunity to suspend your disbelief, it ultimately provides an unexpected and satisfying payoff. Recommended for public libraries."
--Library Journal (Jyna Scheeren, Troy P.L., NY)

"This imaginative near-future, genre-bending debut novel borrows its premise from the iconic work of a less modern Mary - Mary Shelley...DeAngelis combines a neogothic exploration of a moral-ethical morass with a quirky clone love story...frequently titillating."
--Publishers Weekly

"Mary Modern has everything you look for in a book: smarts, style, and suspense. How often is it that you marvel at an author's literary skill while you feel that mad scramble to find out how it ends? It's a thrilling debut."
--Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy

"A strange, strangely beautiful, and beautifully accomplished novel. Science, history, personal identity, and literature go into the blender, and what comes out is a nearly perfect mix."
--Ben Greenman, author of Superbad and A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both

"What an inventive and testing book: Mary Modern may be the strangest package of fictional illusions that I've encountered for a long time, but Camille DeAngelis has pulled off every trick with a confident, extravagant flourish. She is a writer/magician whose debut novel is learned, engrossing, incessantly surprising, and extraordinarily touching."
--Jim Crace, author of The Pesthouse and Being Dead