Author DJ Butler
D.J. (Dave) Butler is the award-winning author of the Witchy War series, the follow-up Serpent Daughter, and numerous other books. His work has won the Dragon Award, the Whitney Award, the Association for Mormon Letters Award for Novel, and multiple Kovel Awards. In 2026, he founded Hapax Press, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief.
He also writes for children—the steampunk fantasy adventure tales The Kidnap Plot, The Giant's Seat, and The Library Machine are published by Knopf. His nonfiction includes The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as several works of theology.
He lives in Utah with his family and plays guitar and banjo whenever he can.
“’Round here, boredom ain’t a mortal sin.”
Hapax Press is bringing back into print the beloved, groundbreaking, award-winning epic fantasy trilogy, the Witchy War.
We’re republishing all three books as high-quality hardbacks with new covers. Hitting stretch goals will allow us to include music in the books as well as interior illustrations and a redesigned map.
Add-ons include traditional swag like T-shirts and caps as well as more literary benefits, like the possibility of being written into the series. You can also get tickets to our spring launch event, which will be a multimedia medicine show.
Aiming to launch on October 1, 2026.
America Richly Reimagined
The Witchy War trilogy—Witchy Eye, Witchy Winter, and Witchy Kingdom, now from Hapax.
A setting bursting with invention, where Appalachian folk belief, European mysticism, Native nations, African traditions, frontier politics, and supernatural conviction exist side by side in this reimagined American history.
“One of fantasy’s most audacious alternate histories.”
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