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A Flutter of Fae audiobook
Tuesday, October 21st, 2025
The wonderful Keval Shah is back for another audiobook! The fourth Consulting Magic audiobook includes both the novel, A Flutter of Fae, but also the short story Friends in Low Places, which is the completion of the series so far!
A Flutter of Fae
Alexander Benedict-St. Albans and Julian St. Albans-Benedict are back for another book!
Fourth in the Consulting Magic series, A Flutter of Fae starts the next phase in Alex and Julian’s lives. As Guardians of the Charmer’s Way and newlywed husbands, they’re learning to function together as a household and a part of society. Alex has taken the role of Charmer while Julian is becoming a sought-after Grower, but their busy new life hasn’t gotten them out of Alex’s previous job—solving murders.
When a high elf turns up dead right in front of the Queen’s Way, Her Majesty herself requests Alex and Julian’s input on the problem. The problem is, their victim doesn’t seem to have any enemies, or even serious business interests on the human side of the way. With no clear motive and time ticking away, Alex and Julian have to live their new, complicated lives while still making time for old friends, new acquaintances, and, of course, solving the murder.
Friends in Low Places
Con and Old Sprout drop in for an unexpected visit during tea time, and they bring an unusual mystery for Alex and Julian to solve. In the course of their investigation, Julian and Alex get to explore the forest around the Source, meet some of the local fae, and consult with Cody. They solve the mystery and catch the culprit and put everything to rights just in time to spoil the kittens.
Categories: Series and Books, Words Words Words
Tags: audiobook, consulting magic
Short Magic: A Consulting Magic Short Story Collection
Monday, October 20th, 2025
This anthology contains all five previously-published Consulting Magic related stories, plus five tiny bonus shorts and three of Alys’ best recipes.
- Untrue Love: Alex’s very first case!
- Finer Points: A little monster story to go after book 1.
- Rosemary for the Holidays: Alex and Julian celebrate Solstice after book 2.
- Gifts of the Fairy Queen: A whole novella about the gifts they get after book 3.
- Friends in Low Places: A little mystery set after book 4.
PLUS!
- Posh Git: Murielle gives her early impressions of Alex.
- Change of Scenery: A flower fairy puts her two cents in.
- Blue Boy: Alys plays a prank on her disobedient human.
- A Bird’s Life: Horace has a lovely day out.
- Kitten as a Cat: What’s it like to be a fairy cat, anyway?
AND, from Alys’ cookbooks, recipes for Peach Cobbler, Hand Pies, and Saag Paneer.
These stories are intertwined with the four Consulting Magic novels, and the first one is a great way to taste test the series as a whole.
Categories: Series and Books, Words Words Words
Tags: book, consulting magic
Friends in Low Places
Thursday, August 28th, 2025
A new Consulting Magic short story is out now! Friends in Low Places is the 5th short story in this universe, and is set after the 4th novel, A Flutter of Fae.
Con and Old Sprout drop in for an unexpected visit during tea time, and they bring an unusual mystery for Alex and Julian to solve. In the course of their investigation, Julian and Alex get to explore the forest around the Source, meet some of the local fae, and consult with Cody. They solve the mystery and catch the culprit and put everything to rights just in time to spoil the kittens.
Categories: Series and Books, Words Words Words
Tags: book, consulting magic
Diffidence and the Rift
Friday, May 23rd, 2025
Diffidence Obedience Atonement Smythe is a grad student who prefers to never use his full name. Ever. He’s finishing a Ph.D. in Extemporaneous Magic, and his research project for his dissertation is closing the Rift between worlds that he accidentally opened when he was thirteen. Obviously, caffeine is an important part of his life.
Ergi Thusol-Von Klempt is a half-orc who works in the infamous Goblin Market, selling magical pastries to those who need them – or, in Diff’s case, just want them. He’s got bubblegum-pink hair, lovely lilac skin, and a smile like sunshine, at least if you ask Diff. Ergi is intrigued by his frazzled, but handsome, frequent customer.
The Goblin Market is a magical space that anyone can find if they truly need it, and most people visit once or twice if at all. Diff is there several times a week as he untangles the layered mysteries of the Rift, and has had years to develop his crush on Ergi.
In this cozy urban fantasy, Diff and Ergi find some solutions to life’s problems in the Market, along with the courage to talk to each other.
Diff might even find a future beyond the Rift that has consumed over a decade of his life.
Tags: m/m romance, half-orc/human, crushes to lovers, open-door spice, found family, unusual magic, fiber arts, lots of tea, this book will make you hungry
Available May 29th on Amazon – preorder today!!
Categories: Sale Post, Words Words Words
Tags: book, goblin market
The House With the Haunted Heart
Friday, January 31st, 2025
It’s here! It’s haunted!
My latest novel, The House With the Haunted Heart, is a light, spooky romance between a boy, the Bay Area, and his house. Moving up from Silicon Valley, Aaron’s looking for love, peace, and pizza.
Categories: Words Words Words
Tags: book, haunted house, novel
To Admire and to Adore
Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
Categories: Words Words Words
Tags: fiction, future of magic, to admire and to adore
Random Recipe: Minted Lemonade
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
A recipe made of 4 ingredients, and to your own taste!
You will need:
- a pitcher
- boiling water
- fresh mint
- fresh lemons
- sugar
Make mint tea! Pour boiling water over washed fresh mint and steep for 5-7 minutes. Longer goes stronger, but much over 7 minutes and you’re adding flavors you probably don’t want.
Filter out the mint and then pour the tea into your pitcher.
Add the sugar to taste, keeping in mind that you’ll be adding a lot of lemon juice later. You want very sweet, minty tea. Cool it down.
Add lemon juice to taste and drink up!
For reference, I added 1/4 cup of sugar to 4 cups of tea, and the juice of 3 lemons. It could maybe have used a fourth for real tartness. I used a bundle of mint from our farmshare, and everything else was just guesswork and experimentation.
It’s pretty tasty, though.
PS – Please enjoy my new hobby, 8-bit pixel art!
Categories: Whimsical and Strange, Words Words Words
Tags: 8-bit art, digital art, recipe
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