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LydiaVRussell
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I write books with wicked faeries and gothic tales filled with ghosts and romance! 🖤👻
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Schemes...hmmm, I don't actually think I have any in any of my works. I may have to add some to future projects! 🖤
#fantasyindiesmaytober
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May 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Laphaniel and Teya's perfect date...a late summer picnic by a river, far away from everyone, plenty of deep, dark wine, bloodied meat, ripe fruit and each other.🖤
#fantasyIndiesFebruary
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Art by @amdavis.bsky.social 🥰
February 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Blessed Imbolc! 🖤 Spring is coming!
My name is Lydia and I am one of your hosts alongside @chesneyinfalt.bsky.social for #fantasyIndiesFebruary
My plans for feb:
🖤Promo TBDW
🖤Plan relaunch of TWWC
🖤Read lots
🖤spend time in the garden/allotment
💖Everyone welcome to join!
February 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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💞 #FantasyIndiesFebruary 💞

All genres welcome! For snippets, you can use the word of the day or post whatever. You can use the prompts for WIPs or published books.
Feel free to ask the hosts questions!

Love,
Faeries at Fantasy Indies
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Fantasy Indies Feb prompts by @ChesneyInfalt and @LydiaVRussell 1. Introduce yourself & WIP 2. Favorite romance movies & books 3. Games 4. Sweetheart nicknames 5. What would be the perfect date for your characters? 6. Favourite romance tropes 7. Free Friday or common themes in your books 8. Snippet Saturday: Free or Discovery 9. Love Interest(s) 10. MC’s To-Do List 11. Flirty moment 12. What do your characters think of romance? 13. MC’s best friend(s) 14. Free Friday—Happy Valentine’s Day! 15. Snippet Saturday: Free or Awkward Moment 16. Your last 5-star read 17. Heartache 18. WIP Comp Titles 19. Preferred level of spice 20. Does your MC make decisions based on emotions, morals, or logic? 21. Free Friday or Favourite/Least Favourite Euphemisms 22. Snippet Saturday: Free or Pain 23. Sweet moment 24. What words or phrases does your MC say a lot? 25. Book-to-film/TV show adaptations that you enjoyed 26. What does your MC think of themselves? 27. MC hobbies 28. Monthly Wrap-Up
January 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Monthly Wrap Up!
🖤 Started new formatting and covers for the relaunch of The Wicked Woods Chronicles
🖤Ramped up promo for The Bine Drenched Woods
🖤Read more
🖤Took a break and relaxed
#fantasyindiesjanuary
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January 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Hyacinth's Goals...
💀 To wear the prettiest dress
💀To always stay close with her sisters (especially Briony)
💀To honour her parents
💀To wed a nice village boy

Sorry... that's her mother's hopes for her.
Hyacinth wants to fucking live, or choose how and when she dies 🖤
January 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I tend to stick to one WIP at a time, and focus all my energy on that. As soon as the edits are underway and the last few changes are being made, then I'll get plotting my next work. I do sometimes like to try and give myself a break between projects😅🖤
#fantasyindiesjanuary
January 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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📚 February Readalong! 📚

We are excited to host a read-along for The Petticoat Pirate by @crpugh-author.bsky.social! If you want to participate, comment below & we’ll get you sorted into our group chat. Starts 1 February!

Love,
The Faeries at FI
@lvrussell.bsky.social & @chesneyinfalt.bsky.social
January 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Happy Monday, Lovelies! 🥰🖤
January 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Injuries and Illnesses in The Bone Drenched Woods...
💀Devoured by The Teeth
💀Taken by The Deep
💀Hangings
💀Loss of limbs
💀Poisoning
💀Fisticuffs
💀And many, many more!
#fantasyindiesjanuary
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January 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Favourite childhood books! 🖤
Goosebumps: R.L.Stine
Point Horror: Various authors
The Deptford Mice: Robin Jarvis

I could never resist something a little darker...😊🖤
#fantasyindiesjanuary
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January 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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With only 5 days to go until release day, BURY ME COLD has 10 advance reviews and ratings on Goodreads! Thanks to everybody who read ARCs for this collection... and I can't wait for the rest of you to get your hands on this book!
January 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Went for a lovely long walk around the village...trying to be more active, and when the surroundings are this picturesque it doesn't feel like a chore. 🖤
View over green fields, cloudy sky with sun filtering down. Early morning, winter time.
January 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Describe your WIP with emojis:
The Bone Drenched Woods...

🎂🏚😡🧙🐕🐇🌲🩸🩸🩸🩸🦴🦴🦴💀💀💀👀

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#fantasyIndiesJanuary
January 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Fight scene for todays Saturday Snippet! Taken from my upcoming folk horror The Bone Drenched Woods!

Available to preorder now from the gloriously gothic @quillandcrowpublishinghouse.com
🖤💀🖤

Fantasy Indies Hosts: @fantasyindies.bsky.social @chesneyinfalt.bsky.social 🖤
They will burn you as a witch, and the rest of us will dangle, too. They will cut the rot out.” “No one saw…” “I saw.” The slap echoed, sharp and quick, stinging Hyacinth’s palm. “Shut your mouth!”
January 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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It was a rather beautiful, frosty walk to work! 🖤❄️🖤❄️
January 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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✨ NEW RELEASE ✨

🤍 angsty, estranged husbands
🫂 close brothers x2
🗡️ an mc who is 100% done
🐺 a love interest ready to grovel
👻 small town spooks
🏫 a haunted, gothic school
🔍 buried secrets
❄️ snowy setting

🔖 book link: mybook.to/aBMB
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Ebook cover for The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden; cover shows a shadow of a grey wolf above a forest that's dark green and black and foggy. text is gold and greyish-white.
January 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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It's snowing down in Dorset! 🖤❄️🖤❄️🖤
January 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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If anyone needs help who to follow on here; Q&C Crows, friends, and folks I’ve followed for years 🖤 (if I missed you, I’m sorry, I’m old and tired) go.bsky.app/Cav97JN
January 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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I do love this time of year! Lights flickering, the dark and cold days and nights, the stories and magic...I love it all!

It really is a busy time, so I haven't been on SM much recently, and I do tend to shut down the writing desk and take a step back to enjoy time with family and friends. 🖤🎄🖤
December 11, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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Christmas is the time for ghost stories...
Crumbling mansions, haunted hallways and secrets seeping from the very walls... The Quiet Stillness of Empty Houses is the perfect read for those cold, dark days. 🖤🗝

Available from your favourite book retailers including
@quillandcrowpublishinghouse.com
December 8, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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Saturday Snippet for #fantasyindiesdecember

I didn't have a quite that fit today's "magic" prompt, so am using this one! 🖤

The Bone Drenched Woods is available to preorder now from the Crow Shoppe @quillandcrowpublishinghouse.com

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“I think they are watching us,” Hyacinth whispered, leaning closer. He smelled of sweat and old grass. “If you look closely at the shadows, you can see them.”
December 7, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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It's #fantasyindiesdecember
My name is Lydia, one of your hosts alongside the magical @chesneyinfalt.bsky.social
This month, I'll be doing a few edits for my Folk Horror: The Bone Drenched Woods, but I do tend to wind down over the festive season, and pack my writing away
🖤🎄🖤🎄🖤🎄🖤
December 1, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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December prompts are here!! Everyone welcome to join! 🖤🎄🖤🎄🖤🎄🖤🎄
fantasyindies.bsky.social Fantasy Indies @fantasyindies.bsky.social · Nov 29
🎄 #FantasyIndiesDecember🎄

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 December prompts, hosted by @ChesneyInfalt and @LydiaVRussell 1. Introduce yourself & WIP 2. Holiday Movies & Books 3. Let others ask you anything about your WIP(s) 4. Last, Current, and Next reads 5. MC’s family and friends 6. Free Friday or Holiday Traditions 7. Saturday Snippet: Magic 8. Christmas Wishes 9. Hot chocolate, apple cider, or eggnog? 10. Favourite Christmas song 11. What lessons would the Ghost of Christmas Past give your characters? 12. Holidays in WIP 13. Free Friday or how your writing has improved 14. Saturday Snippet: Cold 15. Festive Shelfie! 16. Favourite festive recipes 17. Favourite Reads of 2024 18. Cosy hangout by the fire, or playing in the snow? 19. What would your MC give as a gift? 20. Free Friday or festive flash fiction 21. Winter Solstice: Share your light or Saturday Snippet 22. Weather in WIP 23. Would your characters be on the naughty or nice list? 24. Who would your MC kiss beneath the mistletoe? 25. Merry Christmas! 26. Hopes for next year 27. Free Friday or share your favourite gif 28. Saturday Snippet: Comfort 29. What makes your characters happy? 30. What are you proud of this year? 31. Monthly/Yearly Wrap-up
November 29, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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For Free Friday I am shouting the hell out of the cover for The Bone Drenched Woods!
Look at it! It's perfect!
Go make me happier than ever and go preorder from the deliciously gothic @quillandcrowpublishinghouse.com
#fantasyindiesnovember
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November 29, 2024 at 5:10 PM