The Skeleton Faerie: Cover Reveal

Gosh, I'm so sorry that I haven't made a post in a while. I certainly don't want to make a habit of it!

The truth is, I've been devoting all my energy to ensuring that The Skeleton Faerie is ready for publication. Between trying to control my health issues and revising this book, I haven't had the mental capacity for anything else.

I didn't even decorate for Halloween this year, and it's my favorite! I didn't go to the pumpkin patch, watch spooky movies, walk around Spirit Halloween, or dress up either. I'm telling you, my days have consisted of nothing but this book.

That's why I'm so excited to be sharing the final cover illustration with you today. Here it is:

It was designed and illustrated by Gabrielle Ragusi, and I positively adore it. I think it perfectly encapsulates the strange and dark aspects of the story. The book is definitely a weird one, blending fairy folklore and Celtic mythology with a nuclear postapocalypse, and somehow, Gabrielle fused those contrasting ideas in the most beautiful way.

In case you missed the book's synopsis, here it is:

"Faerie folklore meets a nuclear postapocalypse in this dark mythological fantasy woven with secrets, treachery, and star-crossed love.

Ninety-nine years after the Nuclear War of 1989, twenty-one-year-old Gus Brandon should only be interested in the survival of humanity and the expansion of his compound. But he’s obsessed with legends from the distant past, superstitions of an expired people.

While searching forbidden ruins for the scraps of stories lost to time, he stumbles upon a mysterious young woman covered in scars. Her name is Saoirse, and their meeting sets off a bloody chain of events—one in which Gus discovers that the folklore he loves just might be real, and that it’s tied to mankind in ways he could have never imagined.

Soon the lines between myth and reality blur, as do the lines between realms.

Gus will have to rely on his knowledge—and Saoirse—to survive the horrors awaiting him… in this world and the next."

That's all for now. See you next time!