Allie Leigh

Big exciting news this month! I’ve been working with my fantastic cover artist on the cover for A Damsel and a Demon and it’s looking absolutely fantastic! The actual cover reveal won’t come until later, but here are some behind-the-scenes pictures of early drafts~

None of these are quite what we ended up going with, so stayed tuned for the full cover reveal later on! I will say that I absolutely adore how it turned out and I am super excited to share it with everyone later!

In other news, did you miss your chance to pick up books last month? If so, you can do it again, because…

My books are in the Smashwords July Summer/Winter Sale! So, if you’d like to pick either of them up, just use the following links to do so for free!

A Sorceress and Scones: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1633931

Sous-Faerie Soufflé: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1651530

Happy reading!

Last month was focused more on working on the cover and interior art/formatting for A Damsel and a Demon than actual writing. I got my first proof copy for it, which was very exciting! 9/10 of the weird formatting things I tried to do worked, and I think I found a work-around for the one thing that Amazon didn’t print properly (because, surprise surprise, they did not follow their own printing templates). The manuscript is being sent off for editing next month, and I’ll do another test print once I’ve incorporated those edits, so more to come on this front later!

You’d think that finishing a game would help you overcome your obsession with said game, but no dice. I finished Clair Obscur last month, proceeded to force two friends, my sister, and her husband to let me explain the entire plot to them, obsessed over the OST and edited a bunch of the songs for my D&D group to use during our campaign, purchased two crochet patterns to make an Esquie, also bought a really pretty cross-stitch pattern of Gustave and Sophie, started watching a playthrough of it while walking on the treadmill, purchased the required items to do a Baguette cosplay (despite the fact that I do not go to conventions and if I wear this outfit for Halloween, everyone is just going to think I’m making fun of French people), and finally, after not being able to get the game out of my brain for a week, was like, “What if I just started a New Game+ file in French?”. And that is what I did.

(I have also recently gotten into Monster Train 2, though, and that is also fantastic. So maybe I’m slowly becoming a normal, non-Clair Obscur obsessed human being again. Maybe. Probably not.)

Look at this little blep. Look at this face. Doesn’t your heart just melt?

If it’s summer where you are, I hope everyone enjoys the sun! See you next month!