Click-clack. Click-clack. The wooden beads of Trinx’s newly gifted fidget toy occupy her fingers while her frustration sends the words tumbling from her mouth. Her father was insistent that she be a successful warrior son. After listening closely, the wise old hobgoblin with a barking laugh opens Trinx’s eyes to who she could truly become.

Returning to Chubug as a goblin woman, Trinx lands a job at the Arsonist’s Tender when her best friend Quilka calls in a favor. However, coasting through life as a barmaid leaves her yearning for more than hiding behind dark colored stockings and creative uses of a gelatinous cube.

But change doesn’t come easy, especially when risky alchemy experiments are involved. Finding the right mentor is key, as is gathering the right combination of friends to fit together into a forged family. If she can pull it off, she may build a better home than she could ever imagine.

Distilled Magic is a slice-of-life fantasy novel featuring quirky goblins, alchemical magic, dragonroot tea, found family, and the power of change.
 
I’ve included the original blurb I launched the book with below. I think my new version is better, but I’m not an expert with blurbs. I felt it would be good to include it in case you felt I went in the wrong direction with my revisions, and the original would be a better starting place.

As a transgender woman, the kind and impulsive goblin Trinx has never felt fully accepted in her rural clan. Feeling destined to always live on the edge of goblin society, she naively decides to adopt a child as the first step on a path to joining the High Council of Goblin Grandmas, intending to leverage her position to make the Chubug clan more accepting of everyone. When she finds it impossible to create a family this way, she looks to alchemy for an easy solution. Follow Trinx’s journey as she finds a family of friends and discovers the truth that has been eluding her.
Distilled Magic is a cozy fantasy novel offering a slice-of-life look into goblin society, full of alchemical magic, a warm and welcoming tavern, delicious foods, dragonroot tea, found family, and the power of change.