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@lydia97.bsky.social
💫writer of strange magic | 28 | either daydreaming or annoying my cats🌷🇯🇲🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈| No one is free until we're all free
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NEWS!!!
September 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Cobbled my final thoughts together for the excellent The River and The Star by @gromerolacruz.bsky.social !! I'm so lucky to have gotten an arc so I can yap about how much I love Gabby's debut series ❤️ You can check out my full review on my substack
July 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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As WHEN INK SWALLOWS THE SUN begins hitting agent inboxes, here's an updated #agentsguide, ft.
🪭An eldritch craving belonging
🏹A failing chosen one
🪭A pampered heir losing it all
🏹A saboteur of her own rebellion

❤️ this post or DM if interested!
#agentguide #F #A #writingcommunity
July 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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While Ashlea and I are working on our major rewrite of our story, I'd like to present our updated #AgentGuide

This is our adult/crossover romantic fantasy with a true slow burn romance, and series potential!

#WritingCommunity 📖🦋
July 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
As promised, my review for TSATV in anticipation of it's sequel coming out in October this year!

So grateful to be on this street team and able to yap about one of my fave duologies of all time ✨@gromerolacruz.bsky.social is an incredible author and I can't wait for the sequel to storm the world <3
July 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Did you know The River and The Star is out on Oct 7th? The first book is one of my all time faves and i am so lucky to have gotten an arc for the sequel! If you're looking for a pride month read then I'd 100% recommend The Sun and The Void, and then preordering the River and The Star 🤭🤭🌟
June 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
simple as: if you don't write your own words, from brain to page, you're not a writer. If you're using AI you don't understand what it means to be a writer. A hill I'll die on.
So that now makes Lena McDonald, KC Crowne and Rania Faris leaving ChatGPT prompts in their ‘books’.

I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY.

Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙
May 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Not sure what the kid-lit community did to deserve @heykellyjensen.bsky.social but I’m glad she’s here. Just wow, what a resource. 👇🏽
May 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Just a small snippet from the scene I'm working on.

I'm working to hit the sensory details and timing just right... Horror has to be so intentional with every line, and I'm having a blast with the challenge!

🩸📚 #Snippet #writingcommunity #amquerying (soon!)
May 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
SO HYPED FOR KAY!!!!! <3
so... 🌟i'm agented!!🌟

@alexbrownwrites.bsky.social found my weird, cosy/creepy genre-blending story & saw the heart in not just this one book, but the rest of my stories as well🥹 i am so excited to work with her, and i can't wait to see what comes next! 💕
May 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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#Agents I started querying my gothic Sapphic fantasy!

Shadow sorceress Evelyn has been having nightmares of a monster seeking to use her powers. Together with witch Lydia she must find out what the monster wants from her, before she loses herself to it.
April 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Here's my agent's guide to THIS FAITH YOU BLEED FOR, an adult gothic fan(g)tasy, complete at 104k. #amquerying
April 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
April 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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A CURSE CARVED IN INK by Tzeyi Koay, coming 2027 with @simonschusteruk and @atriabooksaus @simonschusterau ✨️
March 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I edited around 10,000 words of my novel yesterday and then made two (2) sheperd's pie afterwards, counting that as a solid win ☺️
March 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
run don't walk ppl!!! <3
So today was the official release day for my first traditionally published book.

Out in Greenwood is an LGBTQ+ teen novel with humour, mixed with the emotions of realising you are gay at 15 but having to hide those feelings.

Please retweet to help me get the word out.
Happy publication day to James A Lyons!

Tim thought coming out would be easy, yet nothing has changed the horror of facing homophobia

When things seem to be on track, a mysterious graffiti artist starts to target him.

OUT IN GREENWOOD is out NOW!
#Booksky
March 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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So today was the official release day for my first traditionally published book.

Out in Greenwood is an LGBTQ+ teen novel with humour, mixed with the emotions of realising you are gay at 15 but having to hide those feelings.

Please retweet to help me get the word out.
Happy publication day to James A Lyons!

Tim thought coming out would be easy, yet nothing has changed the horror of facing homophobia

When things seem to be on track, a mysterious graffiti artist starts to target him.

OUT IN GREENWOOD is out NOW!
#Booksky
March 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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my pitch card for my #amquerying adult urban fantasy, FOR THE DAYS WE NEVER HAD, ft. a discontented college kid and a hopeless romantic grappling with vampires, lost gods, gangs, and shady detectives

leave a ❤️/reply if interested!

#writingcommunity
March 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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first draft vs. last draft:

“I paid a dollar for a vial of love off a woman on seventh street.”

“Finn paid a pound for a vial of love off a woman on Seventh Street.”
March 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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GODKILLER x THE CURSE OF SAINTS
When Merit's lover chooses her best friend as his next sacrifice, Merit vows to murder him. But to slay a god, she must first find his weakness—and defeat his bodyguard, the wielder of death.

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #F #A
March 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Orkney, 1909: Twenty-five years ago, men made history. Now, one woman will change it…

🔥 Feminine rage
🪢 Twisty plot
🌊 Atmospheric setting
🧜‍♀️ Fading folklore
❤️‍🔥 Vengeance and redemption
💫 Chronic illness rep (own voices)

#PopUpPit #LuckyPit #A #H
March 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Here We Go Again x It's a Sin

Whilst honouring his uncle's dying wish to reunite six drag queen activists, a young gay man hears the truth about his adoptive mother. With her past about to impact his future, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him.

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit
March 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Squid Gamex1984

To find her bestie, Tate lies her way onto the Trinity Trials—televised games in which viewers decide all: magic players are 💉 with, the hunter, &each twist. She must survive not only the games+the hunter but other desperate players who play by their own rules.

#popuppita #luckypit
March 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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When exorcising ghosts, it helps to have a medium with a cool head and sympathetic heart.

Instead, we get unlikable, snarky Constance.

In a blend of horror/comedy that gets darker as it goes, traveling ghost hunters get in too deep when the dead won’t RIP.

#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #a #uf #h #spec
March 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM