Jenna Blackmore Books

All for a Fortune is my most recent book, and also most recent cover design. In the years since A Chained Sunrise, I’ve, along the way, switched to using my own photography and art for cover designs, rather than the free for commercial use photo assets I used in the creation of some of my earlier covers. In fact, the story of All for a Fortune was, in its earliest stages, developed around the concept I had planned for the cover visual and its symbolism… though I couldn’t take the actual photo that appears on the final cover until my new camera arrived in the mail. 📸

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Even though All for a Fortune has been out for nearly two months, and I started writing it back in the winter, this is the first time I’ve drawn the private investigator Alison and her new assistant Lida together. These two are strangers to Ferr’s Bay and have never worked on a murder case before, but that’s not going to stop them from trying to figure it out.

I’ve drawn Margareta from Priestess of the Seventh Magpie again. It’s been a while since I posted my drawings here, but I was in a mood to draw this one tonight, of course listening to the same song (It Ain’t Me Babe) on repeat all the while :)

On a Friday night approaching a midnight in mid-June, Lida Lacelet’s biggest problems are wondering if she’ll get to keep her job and trying not to be late to visit a fortune teller. By Saturday afternoon, she finds herself investigating the murder of a man she did not even know, joining a private investigator who has never before taken such a consequential case…

A year ago, on 12 June 2025, Priestess of the Seventh Magpie was first published! A contemporary fantasy novel wherein Margareta Fontaine, a bookshop employee (mostly) content with uneventful days, is dragged into a secretive cult under the leader’s suspicion of her being a divine priestess and intends to avoid becoming his bride, this book has very quickly become a favourite of my novels. 🐚🌀

My first character drawing in over a month, and it's Dr. Wilfrid Mason, Temple Leader of the Society of the Seventh Magpie. Here he has his special ceremonial dagger, a cherished token from a former follower. But I don't really know if we should trust this fellow with it... his track record with weapons is SO dubious.

What’s inside the pages of Priestess of the Seventh Magpie? A contemporary fantasy tale about a secretive cult, hypnotic magic, and the new, unwilling priestess…and soon-to-be bride, if the cult leader has his way.

Margareta Fontaine is pretty satisfied with her life, but one thing she really wants is to spend more time with temporarily-lapsed folklorist Leigh Irving. When Margareta is made the priestess of a cult she aims to avoid, there is one consolation prize: her observations can help kick off Leigh’s career. But can Margareta and Leigh both follow their hearts, or will their diverging desires and the legacy of the cult tear them apart? Find out in Priestess of the Seventh Magpie 📚

Not everything that works does so on the first try (though some things do!). Here’s a look behind the scenes at a few times I went right back to the start or was on a roll while writing my books 📚 (and that one time I scrapped enough words for a whole book because it just wasn’t the *right* book…)

A trip away becomes a first investigation for Lida Lacelet when she becomes caught in the search for Richard Marchall’s murderer. What hides under the late-spring sun when no one thinks anyone else is watching, and will the suspects realise Lida is paying attention?

Too bad all mediums aren’t quite so kind, and the reunited pair suddenly have hostile, watching eyes to contend with, eyes that know exactly why they can see Amara’s ghost. Can they dodge the trouble that awaits them if they’re caught and complete Amara’s old bucket list?