A Designer Magick

An Art Deco fantasy where fashion is the highest form of power and mages rule the roost.

Vlyn Adare is an illegal magick user hiding in plain sight, a seamstress going nowhere fast.

When she’s not dreaming of being Vlyn’s beau, socialite Shirley Hollister fantasises about being a fashion designer but is stuck in a rut as a receptionist.

To escape his fundamentalist family, Ellory Miller begrudgingly becomes a mage, even if he only wants to make magickal couture.

Rejected by both the mages and gender critical witches, Niven is forced to become a freelancer, hunting rogue magickal users to avoid arrest themself.

Lien Bassett, a trans journalist living stealth, has been trying for decades in vain to hold the mage Tower to account.

All five are brought together after Ellory blows the whistle on the Head Mage’s criminal activity. Hidden prisons, protests, dramatic magick battles, and plenty of fabulous fashion await them.

Unashamedly queer – and built around a slow burn F/F romance – A Designer Magick investigates mental health, gender, and freedom of speech in an evocative 1920s style setting.

For fans of V.E. Schwab and C.L. Polk.

“Unashamedly queer, but the characters are so, so human that it’s impossible to not endear to them”

“What a treat to get trans, lesbian, straight, and ACE characters. (Did I miss any?) All had their own distinct voices and issues and were handled well”

“Couldn’t help but fall in love with the characters and setting. Such a unique and fresh story that made me cry and smile several times”

Word count: 110,000 (approx.)

Content Warnings

A Designer Magick contains depictions of blood, death, and violence, transphobia, deadnaming, forced outing, gaslighting, animal cruelty and death, as well as frank descriptions of anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and claustrophobic settings. Plus references to grooming, inappropriate relationships, and child loss.

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