Door Witch - preview

I can't remember when I first became interested in anime but it must be sometime after I began to follow the films from Studio Ghibli. I started collecting them on DVD - for a while Princess Mononoke was a great hit with my kids. Anyway, as a survivor of MMORPG EverQuest, I consider myself an honorary fan of anime themed isekai - Journey to Another World. My first reads on that them go back to works such as Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Nomads of Gor by John Norman and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
A couple of years back, while watching shows such as If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord and Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? I wondered what I would make of isekai, if I tried my hand. Thus began Door Witch.

Door Witch
In an alternate Earth, Alan Bates lives in Lanndern. He's an avid gamer on Earth Myth, an online role playing game and has one of the highest level in-game avatars, a level thirteen nomad, however he's seldom in employment, education or training - but he's just got a job and is hoping to sort his finances out. Fate steps in - late one night he's woken by his mobile - it's a girl claiming to be Sivitya. The problem is Sivitya is a Door Witch he hired to protect his property - on Earth Myth - and she's a non-playable character. There are problems for Sivitya too: to start with she only knows the Earth Myth avatar who hired her and Alan Bates doesn't look anything like him. Through encounters with a nosy neighbour, Jimbo's Cafe, the local hospital and the law, they have to figure each other out. They also need to take on board her news. And yet Earth Myth is only a game so how is Alan Bates going to get Sivitya back; but then events take a hand, turning his life upside down.
Door Witch is narrated by Sivitya and Alan Bates (and occasionally by his avatars). It is Young Adult Fantasy.

Publication date: TBA
Further information TBA
Cover art C. Rachel
Internal illustrations: ArtKapele