Allie Leigh

Happy Pride month, everybody! In celebration, I’m running a special promotion!

You can pick up the ebook for either Sous-Faerie Soufflé or A Sorceress and Scones for free, from almost any retailer, for the entire month of June! Links are available on each book’s download page on my website. The only place this offer is not available is through Amazon. If you’re limited to reading through Kindle, just send me a message through my contact page and I can send you an epub directly. Happy reading!

A Damsel and a Demon (the prequel to a Sorceress and Scones!) is away with beta readers. I’m making some small edits based on their feedback and working on writing the dreaded blurb. Most exciting is that work on the cover should start Monday, so expect some behind the scenes progress pics of that next month!

This past month I have been playing far too much Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It started when my husband was like, “Allie, would you like to play that Clair Obscur game? It’s been getting really good reviews.” I was like, “okay, sure.” I downloaded it, thinking we’d have a file that we played together and a file that he played by himself, because he plays games at a much faster rate than I. That plan lasted all of a day and a half, because I was apparently playing, “painfully slowly,” so he ditched me completely, bought a second copy of the game on PC, and left me in the dust. I have now sunk like 50-60 hours into this thing, am approaching the end of Act 2 (I think?), am far too invested in all the characters, have cried twice, and am obsessively theory crafting about what is going on.

I could ramble for far too long about everything that makes this game a phenomenal masterpiece and it would be well deserved. The music, the exploration – but I will just say that one of my favourite things about this game is just how it uses quiet, subtle moments to help define character interactions so masterfully and allows them to breathe. Just a moment where one character will lie down next to another beneath the stars, and one of them will wordlessly rest their hand on the ground between them. Or when one character will be standing on a cliff’s edge and another character will walk up beside them and silently adopt the exact same stance, showcasing their bond and shared history, despite the separation that has spread between them. It’s just so. Ridiculously. Good.

According to my PS5 I’m only like just over 50% through this game and I’m pretty sure I’m barrelling toward a big reveal. There’s no way I’m surviving this game emotionally. There’s just no way. RIP my heart and soul. Unless they majorly fumble the second half, this game is soaring into my top 5, for sure.

We’re cat-sitting our friend’s cat until September, so this issue also guest stars Philip! He and Millie were snoozing in the basement. Naps are very important.

Have a great month!