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Author C B Lansdell

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Author of Far Removed, Book 1 in the Apidecca Duology 🌓. Illustrator and world-building enthusiast. South African 🇿🇦. No genAI used. No DMs offering services please. She / her. https://cblansdell.com

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · May 24

🔹Horror
🔹Political intrigue
🔹A tale of endurance and connection
🔹A distinctive world of non-human characters

Far Removed, Book 1 in the Apidecca Duology (Book 2 coming in 2026). Available wide in all formats (including audiobook).
books2read.com/farremoved/

Far Removed. Dark fantasy and sci-fi. Available wide in all formats (including audiobook).
“Lansdell has crafted a unique, distinctive race—the knyads—whose social and political structure has deep implications for the plot.”
—Livia J. Elliot, Author of Dance with Me
I think it safely fits into cyberpunk, but also has a dash of fantasy and some light horror.”
—E.L. Lyons (Author of Starlight Jewel)
for SFF Insiders

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 1h

Answering for Day 12:
Of our 5 antagonists, only 2 have had speaking roles in Far Removed. We get to learn a lot more about all of them in the sequel. One villain is vain and paranoid. Another may harbour a noble streak. Prismer notices the nuances more than Oklas does.

Fantasy Indies @fantasyindies.bsky.social · 14d

🎃 #FantasyIndiesSpooktober 🎃

All genres welcome! You can use the prompts for WIPs or published books.
Feel free to ask the hosts questions!

Love,
Faeries at Fantasy Indies
@lvrussell.bsky.social @chesneyinfalt.bsky.social

Fantasy Indies October prompts by @ChesneyInfalt & @LydiaVRussell

1. Introduce yourself & WIP
2. Do you/your characters like scary things?
3. Free Friday or share something you are proud of
4. Saturday Snippet
5. What are your characters afraid of?
6. Monsters in WIP
7. Villain’s goals
8. Spooky month book recs
9. Favourite paranormal creatures
10. Free Friday or explain your WIP with emojis/gifs
11. Saturday Snippet
12. What do your MC and villain think of each other?
13. Spooky Shelfie
14. Villain’s henchmen and/or followers
15. What would you/your characters wear to a Halloween ball?
16. Tricks and/or treats in WIP
17. Free Friday or share a photo of autumn decorations
18. Saturday Snippet
19. Scary moment in WIP
20. Morally grey character(s)
21. Scary movie/tv show recs
22. Creepy poem or flash fiction
23. Who would your characters dress up as for Halloween?
24. Free Friday or share your Halloween plans
25. Saturday Snippet
26. How would your MC react to a haunted house?
27. Goosebumps or Point Horror?
28. Guilt or regret in WIP
29. MC’s worst nightmare
30. Is your MC brave?
31. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, yes. I remember babysitting for someone whose baby had just started walking. They'd moved into a new house and nothing was childproofed. I'd spend a few hours shutting myself and her in the least dangerous room (carpeted floor with fewer exposed power sockets).

Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 1d

That is reassuring! Living a good life is more important than having a really long life anyway.

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 1d

The "until their deaths" bit has me worried for Charlie and Ermin...

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 2d

I may also have some eye stuff in my book.

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 2d

I am guessing "activists" is meant to be used as an insult here (don't know why). But really, the image on the right should just read "designed with perfectly normal people" in mind.

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 2d

I recently learned eye trauma was a content warning some people need 😅

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Bill Adams - Willow Wraith Press author/owner @williamjadams3.bsky.social · 3d

📢Book review time!📢

The Kry Chronicles by @srarrkewey.bsky.social

A coming of age chosen one story with kindness abound.

Check out my review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 3d

I thought so. Very cosy and personal 🍻

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Marie Sinadjan @quillandcrib.bsky.social · 3d

As my way of thanking the indie writing community for supporting me through the years, I'm offering free content/quote pulls for my birthday! Preference for BIPOC or disabled authors + SFF books on the shorter side. Turnaround will be 3 weeks - I have a baby so I can't be as fast as I used to alas 😅

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 3d

You really have to want that lifestyle in your bones to chase it to the extent that some do.
I saw someone on Twitter saying he is satisfied that he could comfortably fill a pub with the people who have read and enjoyed his book. I liked that.

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 3d

I try to take inspiration from writers like you who support others and grow their audiences thoughtfully.

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 3d

Very well articulated. If I spend any amount of time on social media, I need to monitor how I'm being influenced.

There is a beauty to writing in solitude. Then the time comes for you to share what you've made. Some lovely things grow from community, but they can also get choked by weeds.

Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 @jolantru.bsky.social · 3d

The cliques, the infighting, the whisper networks, the ladderism... make the genre/sff scene sound like a minefield (which, in a way, it is).

Such nastiness shouldn't exist - but the scene is human-made and filled with human desires. Wanting to belong sometimes makes people do shitty things.

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 3d

I like that. Thanks for sharing the song and quote.

Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 3d

Your books have a maturity that would be hard for someone with limited life experience to emulate. I know I wasn't the right person to be writing my duology in my 20s. I could have written something, but it wouldn't have been that story.

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 3d

Confidence is a huge factor. But books come when they are ready. The person you are when you write a story is part of its marrow. So in a sense, no time is wasted. Your stories were marinating inside of you the whole time.

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A.J. Calvin @ajcalvin.bsky.social · 4d

This week's blog talks about my latest BookBub Featured Deal (it was my first US one.) Was it worth it? I think so.

You can read the post here: ajcalvin.net/my-latest-bo...

My Latest BookBub Featured Deal - A.J. Calvin

My Latest BookBub Featured Deal In early September, another of my books was accepted for a BookBub Featured Deal. This was my fourth deal, but the first time I landed a US one. I was surprised I got a...

ajcalvin.net

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 5d

Request for writers who consider me a friend, especially those of you who do WIPSnips or other engagement posts talking about your wip:

If you have the time and energy, post here about your wip. Give me CONTEXT. Tell me who your characters are and their relationships. Tell me about your setting.

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 4d

Next, you’ll meet Prismer, an indentured servant at the Assembly Chambers. She’s committed crimes in the past and has been marked for them (which is why she wears a mask). She also has some useful skillsets. Standoffish on the surface, but very warm underneath. The 2 mcs inhabit different classes.

Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 4d

Well, we have my marine people evolved from corals: knyads. The first character you’ll meet is Oklas, who is a philanthropist and rebel sympathiser (the 5 sovereigns aren’t wonderful to live under). He's a politician and inventor who has founded a college.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 8d

🤎🪱 SPOOKTOBER SALE 🪱🤎
Only 99c thru October!

Sinister toads, haunted garden-gnomes, an evil compost, weeds with a vengeance...
These gardens are not just roses and peonies.

Ko-FI: ko-fi.com/k_lykkebo/shop
Itch: klykkebo.itch.io
Other: books2read.com/karenlykkebo

📚🩸

Snippet from Dirt You Shall Become, short story in Dirt You Shall Become: The scent of rot was heavy in the shade behind the yew. Mille clutched the bucket of potato peels and coffee grinds to her chest and stared into the darkness behind the green archway of ivy twisting around a dead plumtree. Two beady eyes stared back at her.
“Is that you, Cleo? Ps-ps-ps.” She leaned forward and flicked her fingers to lure out the cat. A mosquito buzzed by her ear, and she waved it away, absentmindedly. Her heart drummed when the eyes in the dark blinked.
“Cleocatra? Come here, girl. Ps-ps.”

Mood board for Dirt You Shall Become, upcoming short story collection with a garden theme.
6 pictures. Top: earthworm, pink peonies, middle: garden gnome, weeds. Bottom: fat toad and a shovel with dirt. All with a brown hue.
Text: Dirt You Shall Become. Garden-themed horror short stories by Karen Lykkebo. Coming Spring 2025

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 6d

My review for this charming Hansel and Gretel retelling is on Willow Wraith Press. It is perfect as a quick Halloween read, and it's free for the next few days.
🧡🎃
willowwraithpress.com/2025/10/07/w...

What Coe’s Read: Hannah and Gregory

by J.C. Faust Summary: Trick-or-treating is the least of their worries when siblings find themselves left for dead on Halloween. Abandoned by their evil stepmother. Stranded in an endless forest. S…

willowwraithpress.com

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 6d

All these reviews can be found on the Willow Wratith website. Even Far Removed got a review (just in time for its 2nd birthday too).

Bill Adams - Willow Wraith Press author/owner @williamjadams3.bsky.social · 7d

Another banger month of reads by the Willow Wraith Press crew! #booksky

Check out all our reviews below!

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry you're experiencing that, Erika. I haven't been online much, but your worldbuilding always brightens my timeline. If you need a break from everything, please prioritise yourself for a bit 🫂

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 7d

Two books packed and ready to go.
Who else wants some?

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