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Lyndsey Croal (she/her)
@lyndseycroal.bsky.social
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Scottish SFFH Author | Shirley Jackson Award & BFA Finalist | Latest: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave, DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · Jun 3
✨️Dark Crescent is out today!! Thank you @lunapress.bsky.social for giving the perfect home to this wee dark folklore book of my heart, @jennicoutts.bsky.social for its stunning cover, and anyone who has bought, or plans to read a copy! Let these strange tales set sail...! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌊✨️ linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
Dark Crescent by Lyndsey Croal Cover features blue and gold illustrations of folklore creatures, art by Jenni Coutts. The paperback sits next to trinkets like a hagstone, a jar of seaglass pebbles, a mini lantern, and behind a row of books. Blurb by Joanne Harris reads "Lyrical and Evocative"
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 11h
Old gal Brèagha, cute and classy 💙
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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 12h
Wrote about my biggest childhood fear for @gnofhorror.com! Plus: the all-too-permeable barrier of the human body, the beautiful dawn of air fryers, the rudest thing I’ve done with a shoe, and why I don’t want to get in that hot tub with you.
Kristina Ten: Childhood Fears: Fire Burn And Cauldron Bubble - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Kristina Ten shares how a childhood burn incident fuels her fascination with water and bodily vulnerability. Get her book today!
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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 1d
Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games.

Get in touch with me!
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 14h
Seems like a reasonable compromise 😅
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 16h
A perfect spot for me there 🤗
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Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 18h
Be our Valentine! Not long until the cover reveal for Nebula finalist @cornellwriter.bsky.social’s SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL, out just in time for Valentine’s Day 2026! This retrofuturistic, sci-fi romance novelette will charm you to the moon and back.
#scifi #books #scifiromance #2026books
Light teal backdrop of retro rockets and space items, and a cover reveal placeholder rectangle in dark teal with yellow and white font and a rocket illustration by Kim Herbst. Cover text reads: Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl, P.A. Cornell, Nebula, Aurora, and World Fantasy Award Finalist. Cover Coming soon! Stars and Sabers Publishing Logo. In pale pink font, February 3, 2026.
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 21h
This was one of my absolute fave reads last year, go and check it out, deserves all the readers!! 👇🌱
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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 22h
I've decided that whilst critical success is lovely, I'd like to sell some books.

If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)

Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book
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Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · Oct 30
'A visceral, doesn't-give-a-damn biopunk thriller that treats the "punk" part of that subgenre not as mere window-dressing but as an antifascist shriek... vital and urgent SF that reaches places realist writing never could' ― @interzone.press

If you like cool shit get this 🕶️

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Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net · 22h
Today marks five months since the release of THE INCANDESCENT. As we swing into the grimmest bit of the school year, spare a thought for the teachers you know, for whom a demon infestation would make very little noticeable difference to the dark tunnel that is the back half of the autumn term.
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Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net · May 13
THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now!

US: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/unti...
THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh, in US (black) and UK (pink) hardcover editions.
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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 1d
Art flashback to earlier this year where I painted this fun gal
Digital painting done in clip studio paint. A gothy looking woman with fungus growing out of her face a dress. The painting is done in tones of orange, eggplant and emerald.
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
The face of total innocence 🐈
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
Ha she is a machine 🗡
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
Okay that just sounds unhinged 😅 I've also seen BG3 no companions playthrough, equally joyless ha
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
Meanwhile perfectly happy to be completely unhinged in the sims 💁‍♀️
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
This is how I played it, also trying to follow all the traffic lights 😅
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
2025 books I've enjoyed! Jackal by @iameeadams.bsky.social was so gripping and tense, was hooked right from the start and couldn't put it down as the dark and twisty tale unfolded. Complex, incisive, gut-wrenching, and chilling - highly recommend! ✨️🖤
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World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · 1d
The Programme for World Fantasy 2026 is now live!

worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/
Programme – World Fantasy Convention 2025
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The Supernova Short Fiction Review @supernovareviews.bsky.social · 1d
While Jonathan is busy visiting Seaforth and recording what he finds, Alan took the time to review Parsec #14 - another superb issue with great stories by Adam Roberts, Mike Cobley, Teika Smits, Dave Hutchinson AND MORE!
Parsec #14
Alan reviews a cracking new issue of Parsec - why haven't you subscribed yet?
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David Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 1d
In a little over a month, I'll be appearing at a one-day mini-festival at Denny Library, between events with Marion Todd and Kate Foster. Come along to hear us talk about our books, our writing careers and more!

www.falkirkleisureandculture.org/whats-on/boo...
A promo image featuring me, Marion Todd and Kate Foster at the Denny Library 'Book Blether' event.
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
Ooh fantastic!!
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Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 1d
We are delighted to announce that Orcadian author Barbara Stevenson will return to Academia Lunare with a new work on Scottish Gothic Fiction: The Kirk, the Deil and the Grue Atween. Luna Press has acquired EWR and we are looking forward to welcome it in the new year! @babette1-62.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Announcing Stevenson's Exploration of Scottish Gothic Fiction
We are delighted to announce that Orcadian author Barbara Stevenson, will return to Academia Lunare with a new work on Scottish Gothic Fiction: The Kirk, the Deiland the Grue Atween.
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
Oooh perfectly eerie
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
One of these emails congratulated Dark Crescent for being a "transformative feminist work of non-fiction" - the man-eating mermaids, shapeless mind control blobs, and skinless half-half-horse-half-man are all real tales folks...👀💁‍♀️ linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
I'm apparently the author of a "transformative feminist work of non-fiction" (I write only dark/weird fiction) 😅
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
Looking at my writing files and realised....happy 5 year being on novel sub-versary to meeee (five different books, 260 weeks of "maybe this week", some very close calls, hope streak can end soon...🤞) 🙈🥲💀
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ALT: a woman wearing a white shirt and a black bow tie with #schitts creek on the bottom
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 2d
Pip is up north on his holidays, dropping him off this weekend as I'm here for work, then he'll be enjoying time with his labrador aunties for a few weeks (have a bunch of work travel things but will miss his daily mischief for a wee bit!) ✨️🐈
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