Gentle Reader, I’m delighted to announce that my short story Fairy Debt has new cover art!
Isn’t it wonderful? I’m so very pleased. It was assembled by the ridiculously talented Starla Huchton.
The original photo was taken by the marvelous Jen (all rights reserved) of the lovely Madeline in a costume by Firefly Path. They were all very kind when I approached them and I am so grateful.
This is one of those covers where everyone worked together seamlessly and were really excited to be part of the process. Steampunkers for the win!
I chose the photo because Madeline looks so cheerful and cheeky which really goes with Cups’ personality. We went with the monochrome figure over the colored background to hearken to my YA series, because this is also for younger readers. The scaled background is because this book involves dragons – well, one dragon. And we went with pink to stay with the upbeat comedy of the story.
This short is very light and cheerful, even silly in places, and definitely YA. In fact you could even read this out loud to younger children. It’s a true Fairy Tale in the comic sense of the word. Here’s the blurb:
Fairy Debt by Gail Carriger
I knew it would all end in tears the moment I saw the hat.
Cups is a fairy with a problem. She can’t grow wings because she under a death promise to a local king. So she takes service at the castle as Least Jester hoping to earn her wings, learning a great deal about cupcakes, tea daemons, and earth dragons along the way.
In this short comedic fairytale New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger gets up to her usual tea saturated prose and food driven biting wit. (5000 words ~ 10 pages)
First published in Sword & Sorceress 22 (2007), reprint in Funny Fantasy (2016).
[This new edition has an updated cover and a new modern formatting for the ebook (thank you Nina Pierce). Typos etc have been fixed as well, for which I indebted to Richard Shealy.]
Right now you can get the updated story on:
KOBO
iBooks
inktera
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
And directly from me (via Gumroad) in the digital format you need/prefer:
Amazon readers .mobi
Other eBook readers .epub
Or as a PDF
If you already own this book from Amazon, it should be able to auto-update. However, if you have it from another vendor, I don’t know.
This is the story that had issues with Amazon because they decided to flag the updated version as not belonging to me (see previous blog post).
If you enjoyed Fairy Debt and want something similar to read I highly recommend:
The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye or Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles) by Patricia C. Wrede.
{Gail’s monthly read along for May is Powers That Be by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.}
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