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Leslie Allen
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Author of SAILS OF BLACK AND BLOOD: THE REVENGE OF CAPTAIN VESSIA, out NOW!
Punk witch of a trans lady. Librarian. Autistic. I write murder gays on boats.
Unceded Mi'kma'ki. She/her |🍁| Fuck off with your A/I
linktr.ee/leslieiswriting
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I'm sorry @aow4.paradoxinteractive.com I'll get back to you I promise, you made a DLC specifically for me so I can make vampire pirates but I just started playing 33 before the new DLC came out, and it's *so good* I'm sorrrrryyyyyy
the distracted girlfriend meme, with the new DLC for Age of Wonders 4: Thrones of Blood and Clair Obscure: Expedition 33
November 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Middle of day 3 at #hal-con from my (sold out!!!) booth with @catrector.com !
The authors Leslie Allen and Cat Rector at their booth at Halcon
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Middle of day 2 at #hal-con !
It is ***very busy***
The authors Leslie Allen and Cat Rector at their booth at Hal-con!
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Going live @ Halcon in half an hour!
The author Leslie Allen at her booth at Halcon, the table is covered in pride flags and pirate/undead stuff
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
cozywitch.bsky.social
Hal-Con is less than a week away! And you can find me and @catrector.com at table I7! Come say hi, get books signed, and go see some amazing panels!
Can't wait!!! ^.^
a picture of Leslie Allen in a graveyard. She is very cold, despite the smile and great hair. Her picture is surrounded by a "Find me at Hal-Con" border. The border states that she'll be at Hal-Con on November 7th to 9th. Find out more at hal-com.com A map of the Ballroom at the Halifax Convention Centre with table I7 circled. You can find a more detailed map at https://hal-con.com/schedule-and-events/vendors
November 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
cozywitch.bsky.social
Ending this on an *exciting* note! Now feels like a good as time as any, to announce that the sequel of Revenge of Captain Vessia, is called On Stranger Shores, and will be coming (probably) in the summer!
And as a *tiny* treat/tease, here's a snippet of the cover in progress!
A snippet tease of the cover of Leslie Allen's next book "On Stranger Shores" It features a muddy brown background with a girl with red hair in the bottom corner.
October 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
cozywitch.bsky.social
You can find my trans self and my queer vampirates (yes, vampire pirates!) in my debut dark fantasy book!
You can even read the first four chapters *for free* on my website at leslieallen.com !
The cover of the book The Revenge of Captain Vessia by Leslie Allen, part of the Sails of Black and Blood series. A stoney-eyed woman sits at a long wooden table, her fingers intertwined to cover her mouth. blood drips down her chin and on the table is a goblet which also drips red. Her skin is white, but vampire-pale, and she has long brown-black hair that's braided on one side. On the table is an old-fashioned pistol, a candelabra with four candles, a red runner, and a few charts. The chair she sits in has a wide brim hat hanging on one side and a sword hanging off the other. The light peeks into the dark room through the window and black curtains drape along the back wall.
September 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I for one, blame the decade I spent on tumblr
The last scene of the "Pull the lever Kronk!" with Yzma coming back into the room with the alligator chewing on her. The alligator is labelled "Suffering awkward questions about scenes from betas as a result" and the text labelled "We do we even think meme references in books are funny"
September 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Sometimes I'm my own worst enemy
The pull the lever Konk! meme, where the text is labelled "Put the meme reference in the fantasy book!" with the lever labelled "no one gets it"
September 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I of course ran over to get a better pic
I didn't know she was bilingual
A up close photo of the sign showing the woman from "the what?" Meme on a deep clean ad
September 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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A meme in it's natural habitat
September 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Did you know you can get Revenge of Captain Vessia in a badass bundle? For under 30$ all of these can be yours! Including my queer vampirate captain and her trans lady rebel princess gf out for bloodstrewn revenge!
If this isn't value, I don't know what is!
Check it out at indiebook.sale !
A graphic with 24 covers with text "Narratess Indie Book Sale August 2025. Fantasy Bundle #1” Prophecy Trilogy: New Moon by Liz Bullard Usurper by J. M. Rose The Moss Dragon of Brittlekeep by Ashley Capes Petition by Delilah Waan Trick by Cara Nox The Living Sword by Pemry Janes Of All the Stars by Kris Madigan Thief, Acolyte, Consort by James Robert Paige The Hand That Feeds by Sass Everett Skin Deep by Marie Blanchet Mercy by Ian Haramaki The Sunset Sovereign: A Dragon’s Memoir by Laura Huie The Dream Haunters: A Metaphysical Mystery of Magick by Megan Mary Merchants of Light and Bone by Erika McCorkle The Shifter: Legends of Pern Coen by Hannah E. Carey Tales of Lunis Aquaria by Tessa Hastjarjanto Birthright by M. A. Vice Witch Test by Katie L. Carroll The Selkie and the Minstrel by Elis Madsen Speak The Ocean by Rebecca Enzor Whispers in the Dark by Niranjan The Revenge of Captain Vessia by Leslie Allen Song of the Wolf by T.C. Smith Gift of Snow by C.L. Carhart
August 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
cozywitch.bsky.social
For a limited time you can get The Revenge of Captain Vessia for a clean 99 cents! OR you can pick it up as part of a bundle with a wide range of other great authors!
Because if queer vampirates and trans lady rebel princesses doesn't sell it, what about 300 more books? ^.^
Find it at indiebook.sale
a picture of the cover for The Revenge of Captain Vessia by Leslie Allen. The cover shows the man character, Claire Vessia, a pirate captain sitting in her cabin, drinking from a bloody chalice. There's a pistol and charts on the desk, a candleabra to the side, and dark shades covering a bright day outside. In the midst of a sale graphic for the Indie Book Sale by Narratess from Aug 23 to 25. The blurb for the book is as follows: An undead pirate is after revenge, only to have the perfect opportunity show up in her maker's only daughter.
August 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
cozywitch.bsky.social
Solving my gender shit did not mean I stopped being exhausted
The "Oh! They got this all screwed up!" meme from the simpsons. The first card showing: "Mostly tired, little boy" with the corrected card showing: "Mostly tired little bi"
August 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you
Mine aren't as old as some others (blame it on living in the boonies for most of my life where internet wasn't available for years) but I do find it hilarious that all the trans girls I've seen have total war games lol
A screenshot of a steam purchase history, showing five purchases from 2011 to 2013
August 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Like I'm not joking when I say this was hell on earth. This is a photo of the sun on what was supposed to be a clear day. We were coughing black for weeks.
A picture from the San Juan islands on the crossing inbetween Victoria and Vancouver. The sun is illuminated as a small white dot in the wildfire smoke
August 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I have a problem
The car drifting onto an exit meme, with one lane labeled "working on advertising my books" and the lane the car labeled "me" is drifting onto labeled as "starting the first few chapters of a new manuscript"
August 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Me and @catrector.com are about as ready as we can be for tomorrow at Saint John's Atlantic Expo! See you there!
A convention table featuring novels from Leslie Allen and Cat Rector. There are six novels in total, the Goddess of Nothing at All, Epilogues for Lost Gods, Threads of Uncommon Fate, This Too Shall Burn, Coal Gets in Your Veins, and the Revenge of Captain Vessia. There are prominent pride flags on the display and little joke items, like tissues for readers tears, chocolate gold coins, and many many bookmarks, and a giant pirate flag
July 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
cozywitch.bsky.social
I hear we're making #transbooks a thing!
What about a vampire pirate (vampirate!) captain kidnapping a trans prince(ess) on her blood strewn quest for revenge? ^.^
Find out more here: linktr.ee/leslieiswrit...
The cover of the book The Revenge of Captain Vessia by Leslie Allen, part of the Sails of Black and Blood series. A stoney-eyed woman sits at a long wooden table, her fingers intertwined to cover her mouth. blood drips down her chin and on the table is a goblet which also drips red. Her skin is white, but vampire-pale, and she has long brown-black hair that's braided on one side. On the table is an old-fashioned pistol, a candelabra with four candles, a red runner, and a few charts. The chair she sits in has a wide brim hat hanging on one side and a sword hanging off the other. The light peeks into the dark room through the window and black curtains drape along the back wall.
July 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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illicit tool use under the cut 😅
a blueberry rake in use, with wild blueberries growing low to the ground as they do in certain parts of Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
July 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Age verification? I used this at my first job
(bonus points if you know what it is)
win for the alt text folks: it's a stainless steel blueberry rake
July 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I made a very good friend today that spent like 15 mins singing to me ^.^
A picture of an American Robin sitting atop an obelisk style gravestone with a worm. The grave is surrounded by green trees and sunlight. A picture of an American Robin sitting atop a gravestone from the 1850s. The grave is surrounded by greenery and sunlight.
July 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Sometimes the best thing for the aging goth writer in your life on a stupid hot day is to go to the local graveyard and sit under the trees with her laptop and do some edits (she needs her spooky enrichment even when the weather isn't cooperating)
A picture of Leslie Allen, sitting in a forested graveyard (she is very tired)
July 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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this trope is like crack to me
The "Always has been there" meme, with the planet listed as "doomed by the narrative" the first astronaut labelled as saying "you mean I've been playing into my inescapable fate this whole time?" with the second astronaut with the gun labelled as saying "Your struggle against your fate has only made it more inevitable"
June 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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FUCK YOU
ITS DONE
A photo of the 2nd draft of the sequel to the Sails of Black and Blood series, now completed at 165k words, with a can of monster energy in the foreground
May 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM