#laura simons

[free-queer-books]

Coffee and Faerie Cakes by Laura Simons

Nowadays hardly anyone notices if you're of faerie descent and Jeanne has no trouble whatsoever running a nice little café in Paris. They keep their magic in check, save the occasional splash of comfort in the coffee or a dusting of joy on the pastries, and are happy with simply observing their mortal customers without ever giving themself away. At least that's how it was, before a young man waltzed in who was just a bit too pretty and definitely a bit too light-fingered. Rule number one: never steal from a faerie. Coffee and Faerie Cakes is 45k of light urban fantasy with a generous helping of romance. You want a cute romance between a curious nonbinary faerie running a little café and a charming trans boy with knowledge of magic and thieving fingers? This is it.

Promotion length: Permanent

Markets available: Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Smashwords, author website

Link to book: Smashwords, author website

[zhalfirin]

The fisherman’s favour  - written by Laura Simons and drawn by Débora Cabral

(read the story here)

Dimensions: 11cm x 14,5cm x 1,5cm

Materials used: case binding: - coloured cardboard (270g/m²) - genuine leather (spinecover and headbands)

inner book: - Schleipen fly 05 (115g/m²) - coloured letter paper

[zhalfirin-binds]

Design inspiration  for my binding of  The fisherman’s favour  - written by Laura Simons and drawn by Débora Cabral

Just found some files I used for the fisherman’s favour and thought I’d share them to illuminate my approach on this one. It was the first and till now only time I have used a computer to make design choices (usually I just touch up the cover pictures, tweak their sizes to make them fit and that’s it)

I knew I wanted something resembling the sea and it’s depths and I knew what i wanted, but did you know those maps are called bathymetric maps or submarine contour maps? No? Me neither. Took me an embarrassing amount of time to find that out. 

Perhaps I could have drawn such a map myself, but to be honest, I don’t have much faith in my artistic skill so that was a no.

Most maps I found were either too simple or too complex though.

Or I simply found them not pleasing.  Personally I liked the idea of the sea just kind of coming in from the outside. but considering that this meant for the construction to either have a very thin front edge or a rather thin layer towards the spine I decided against it. 

Eventually I found in a topographic map with a fjord-like shape and way more layers than I felt like cutting out by hand. (I believe that grove I had from my scalpel stayed with me for the next coulpe of hours.) I intended to stick to 4 layers in the beginning but that seemed somehow very flat so I ended up with 6.

[laurasimonsdaughter]

A little out of my usual wheelhouse, but I just published an e-book of my retelling of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey! The whole regency romance, but now with just a bit more smirking and swooning.

It’s a fully canon compliant rewrite, this time from the perspective of the novel’s hero, Henry Tilney:

No one in search of a hero, would ever have thought to look twice at Henry Tilney. He may have begun rather promising, being born as the second son of a stern military man whose abode went by the forbidding name of Northanger Abbey, but from this point on both Henry’s circumstances and disposition were entirely against him…

You can get it (for free) on platforms like Apple Books, Nook, Kobo, and more here: https://books2read.com/fullertonparsonage

Or you can download a Mobi, PDF or ePub directly from my website!

[lost-among-stories]

I made a teenage verion of Luce from 'Coffee and Faere Cakes' on Picrew

This is the Picrew I used