Lynn D. Jung
@lynndjungbooks.bsky.social
spec fic writer & authortuber 🌱
MOTHSBLOOD - Bloomsbury US - fall '26 🍂
Rep: Laura Crockett @ Triada US
https://linktr.ee/lynndjung
MOTHSBLOOD - Bloomsbury US - fall '26 🍂
Rep: Laura Crockett @ Triada US
https://linktr.ee/lynndjung
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🍂 my debut novel, a dark academia adult fantasy about a truly messy woman & alchemy & immortality & BUGS, is out fall 2026 from bloomsbury us!
back on here bc i want to share stream of consciousness drafting updates. um anyway i just went into a fugue state and wrote a prologue for crypts 30 minutes flat
August 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
back on here bc i want to share stream of consciousness drafting updates. um anyway i just went into a fugue state and wrote a prologue for crypts 30 minutes flat
so so stoked to announce that today kicks off the short story contest i am hosting via @reedsy.bsky.social ! The theme is "A Study in Secrets" and there are 5 prompts to choose from.
learn more & enter: tinyurl.com/4vhbz5h7
learn more & enter: tinyurl.com/4vhbz5h7
June 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
so so stoked to announce that today kicks off the short story contest i am hosting via @reedsy.bsky.social ! The theme is "A Study in Secrets" and there are 5 prompts to choose from.
learn more & enter: tinyurl.com/4vhbz5h7
learn more & enter: tinyurl.com/4vhbz5h7
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April 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
every day a different student asks me if i've seen the minecraft movie yet (i'm pushing 30)
April 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
every day a different student asks me if i've seen the minecraft movie yet (i'm pushing 30)
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Del Rey has triumphed in a five-way auction for @lynndjungbooks.bsky.social "chilling, propulsive and fantastical" dark academia debut. Mothsblood will be published as a lead title in October 2026 👇#BookSky
Del Rey triumphs in five-way auction for Lynn D. Jung's 'chilling and propulsive' debut
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April 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Del Rey has triumphed in a five-way auction for @lynndjungbooks.bsky.social "chilling, propulsive and fantastical" dark academia debut. Mothsblood will be published as a lead title in October 2026 👇#BookSky
🦋 MOTHSBLOOD is coming to the UK! ⛈️
I'm so excited to finally be able to share this incredible news, and I'm so grateful to Sam and Feranmi for believing in this book, and to Laura for championing it.
Fall '26!
I'm so excited to finally be able to share this incredible news, and I'm so grateful to Sam and Feranmi for believing in this book, and to Laura for championing it.
Fall '26!
April 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🦋 MOTHSBLOOD is coming to the UK! ⛈️
I'm so excited to finally be able to share this incredible news, and I'm so grateful to Sam and Feranmi for believing in this book, and to Laura for championing it.
Fall '26!
I'm so excited to finally be able to share this incredible news, and I'm so grateful to Sam and Feranmi for believing in this book, and to Laura for championing it.
Fall '26!
"We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now" got a lovely mention in this - thank you Reactor!
From Cain and Abel to Luke and Leia, sibling relationships are never simple--here are five SFF short stories driven by the complicated dynamics between sisters, brothers, and their shared baggage...
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Five SFF Stories Driven by Complicated Sibling Relationships - Reactor
From rivalries to ride-or-die, and everything in between...
reactormag.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now" got a lovely mention in this - thank you Reactor!
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✨🍸 psa for book reviewers
ARCs for LOCAL HEAVENS, my dystopian love story/queer cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining, are available for request on Netgalley
feeling a little emo today 🥲 i hope this little fever dream finds its ppl <3
📌 tropes, comps + blurb are pinned (in my cover reveal thread)
ARCs for LOCAL HEAVENS, my dystopian love story/queer cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining, are available for request on Netgalley
feeling a little emo today 🥲 i hope this little fever dream finds its ppl <3
📌 tropes, comps + blurb are pinned (in my cover reveal thread)
March 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
✨🍸 psa for book reviewers
ARCs for LOCAL HEAVENS, my dystopian love story/queer cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining, are available for request on Netgalley
feeling a little emo today 🥲 i hope this little fever dream finds its ppl <3
📌 tropes, comps + blurb are pinned (in my cover reveal thread)
ARCs for LOCAL HEAVENS, my dystopian love story/queer cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining, are available for request on Netgalley
feeling a little emo today 🥲 i hope this little fever dream finds its ppl <3
📌 tropes, comps + blurb are pinned (in my cover reveal thread)
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asked for roaring 20s x cyberpunk & the team came through like omg. from the diffused neon, shadowed city, bi flag colours for THE most bi panic story ever… im blessed 💗💙💜
✨pre order wherever you buy your books: kmfajardo.com/local-heavens
✨pre order wherever you buy your books: kmfajardo.com/local-heavens
March 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
asked for roaring 20s x cyberpunk & the team came through like omg. from the diffused neon, shadowed city, bi flag colours for THE most bi panic story ever… im blessed 💗💙💜
✨pre order wherever you buy your books: kmfajardo.com/local-heavens
✨pre order wherever you buy your books: kmfajardo.com/local-heavens
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✨💎COVER REVEAL💎✨
LOCAL HEAVENS—a queer dystopian love story + cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining. on capitalism, the American Nightmare & radical hope. out Oct 14th.
design: Charlotte Strick
art: @madebykaran
✨ Pre order now (& save your receipts!)
🧵details below
LOCAL HEAVENS—a queer dystopian love story + cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining. on capitalism, the American Nightmare & radical hope. out Oct 14th.
design: Charlotte Strick
art: @madebykaran
✨ Pre order now (& save your receipts!)
🧵details below
March 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
✨💎COVER REVEAL💎✨
LOCAL HEAVENS—a queer dystopian love story + cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining. on capitalism, the American Nightmare & radical hope. out Oct 14th.
design: Charlotte Strick
art: @madebykaran
✨ Pre order now (& save your receipts!)
🧵details below
LOCAL HEAVENS—a queer dystopian love story + cyberpunk Gatsby reimagining. on capitalism, the American Nightmare & radical hope. out Oct 14th.
design: Charlotte Strick
art: @madebykaran
✨ Pre order now (& save your receipts!)
🧵details below
idk if it's just me, but lately writing is a neverending cycle of 'oh man this book is so bad' and 'oh man i will never write anything as good as this book ever again.' (pls tell me i'm not the only one) 😭
March 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
idk if it's just me, but lately writing is a neverending cycle of 'oh man this book is so bad' and 'oh man i will never write anything as good as this book ever again.' (pls tell me i'm not the only one) 😭
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COVER REVEAL❤️🦋
WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY is my sapphic adult fantasy about a girl gang in 1970s postcolonial singapore, and i got the mean pyro femme art of my DREAMS. it's out oct 21 from @torbooks & you can preorder now!!
🎨 @carissasusilo.bsky.social (art) & esther kim (design)
WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY is my sapphic adult fantasy about a girl gang in 1970s postcolonial singapore, and i got the mean pyro femme art of my DREAMS. it's out oct 21 from @torbooks & you can preorder now!!
🎨 @carissasusilo.bsky.social (art) & esther kim (design)
March 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
COVER REVEAL❤️🦋
WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY is my sapphic adult fantasy about a girl gang in 1970s postcolonial singapore, and i got the mean pyro femme art of my DREAMS. it's out oct 21 from @torbooks & you can preorder now!!
🎨 @carissasusilo.bsky.social (art) & esther kim (design)
WHEN THEY BURNED THE BUTTERFLY is my sapphic adult fantasy about a girl gang in 1970s postcolonial singapore, and i got the mean pyro femme art of my DREAMS. it's out oct 21 from @torbooks & you can preorder now!!
🎨 @carissasusilo.bsky.social (art) & esther kim (design)
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The cover of THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA, my sapphic lady knight/witch reincarnation romance, out in October. ⚔️🔮🌊
March 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The cover of THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA, my sapphic lady knight/witch reincarnation romance, out in October. ⚔️🔮🌊
i haven't had a drop of coffee or energy drink in almost two months for health reasons but the health reasons have persisted nonetheless 🫠
February 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
i haven't had a drop of coffee or energy drink in almost two months for health reasons but the health reasons have persisted nonetheless 🫠
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🥀 COVER REVEAL 🥀
Excited to reveal the US cover of THE MAIDEN AND HER MONSTER, my sapphic adult fantasy inspired by Jewish mythology. It comes out Sept 9, 2025 with @torbooks.bsky.social!
You can preorder now!
Designer: Lesley Worrell
Artist: Christin Engelberth
Excited to reveal the US cover of THE MAIDEN AND HER MONSTER, my sapphic adult fantasy inspired by Jewish mythology. It comes out Sept 9, 2025 with @torbooks.bsky.social!
You can preorder now!
Designer: Lesley Worrell
Artist: Christin Engelberth
February 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🥀 COVER REVEAL 🥀
Excited to reveal the US cover of THE MAIDEN AND HER MONSTER, my sapphic adult fantasy inspired by Jewish mythology. It comes out Sept 9, 2025 with @torbooks.bsky.social!
You can preorder now!
Designer: Lesley Worrell
Artist: Christin Engelberth
Excited to reveal the US cover of THE MAIDEN AND HER MONSTER, my sapphic adult fantasy inspired by Jewish mythology. It comes out Sept 9, 2025 with @torbooks.bsky.social!
You can preorder now!
Designer: Lesley Worrell
Artist: Christin Engelberth
🍂 my debut novel, a dark academia adult fantasy about a truly messy woman & alchemy & immortality & BUGS, is out fall 2026 from bloomsbury us!
February 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
🍂 my debut novel, a dark academia adult fantasy about a truly messy woman & alchemy & immortality & BUGS, is out fall 2026 from bloomsbury us!
Reposted by Lynn D. Jung
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
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It is live!!!
There are over 260 AMAZING items to bid on in the 2nd annual #KidLit4Ceasefire auction from year-long mentorships to signed books to full manuscript critiques to art commissions the fundraiser has you covered! 🇵🇸
Link:
bit.ly/KidLit4Cease...
It is live!!!
There are over 260 AMAZING items to bid on in the 2nd annual #KidLit4Ceasefire auction from year-long mentorships to signed books to full manuscript critiques to art commissions the fundraiser has you covered! 🇵🇸
Link:
bit.ly/KidLit4Cease...
January 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
✨PLEASE SHARE✨
It is live!!!
There are over 260 AMAZING items to bid on in the 2nd annual #KidLit4Ceasefire auction from year-long mentorships to signed books to full manuscript critiques to art commissions the fundraiser has you covered! 🇵🇸
Link:
bit.ly/KidLit4Cease...
It is live!!!
There are over 260 AMAZING items to bid on in the 2nd annual #KidLit4Ceasefire auction from year-long mentorships to signed books to full manuscript critiques to art commissions the fundraiser has you covered! 🇵🇸
Link:
bit.ly/KidLit4Cease...
If you're looking for a full manuscript critique for your YA or adult science fiction/fantasy/spec manuscript, I've donated one to #KidLit4Ceasefire ! The auction will run from 1/15 - 1/31
Link: shorturl.at/Arkvg
Link: shorturl.at/Arkvg
January 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
If you're looking for a full manuscript critique for your YA or adult science fiction/fantasy/spec manuscript, I've donated one to #KidLit4Ceasefire ! The auction will run from 1/15 - 1/31
Link: shorturl.at/Arkvg
Link: shorturl.at/Arkvg
2024 wins:
✨ finished revising MOTHS, my dark ac adult fantasy set in Paris
✨ started drafting CRYPTS, a gothic adult fantasy ft. necromancers
✨ signed with a literary agent (yay)!
2025 goals:
🌱 finish CRYPTS
🌱 level up my writing
🌱 ....????
see the full video here: tinyurl.com/yu2bzx2e
✨ finished revising MOTHS, my dark ac adult fantasy set in Paris
✨ started drafting CRYPTS, a gothic adult fantasy ft. necromancers
✨ signed with a literary agent (yay)!
2025 goals:
🌱 finish CRYPTS
🌱 level up my writing
🌱 ....????
see the full video here: tinyurl.com/yu2bzx2e
January 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
2024 wins:
✨ finished revising MOTHS, my dark ac adult fantasy set in Paris
✨ started drafting CRYPTS, a gothic adult fantasy ft. necromancers
✨ signed with a literary agent (yay)!
2025 goals:
🌱 finish CRYPTS
🌱 level up my writing
🌱 ....????
see the full video here: tinyurl.com/yu2bzx2e
✨ finished revising MOTHS, my dark ac adult fantasy set in Paris
✨ started drafting CRYPTS, a gothic adult fantasy ft. necromancers
✨ signed with a literary agent (yay)!
2025 goals:
🌱 finish CRYPTS
🌱 level up my writing
🌱 ....????
see the full video here: tinyurl.com/yu2bzx2e
Hello #writingcommunity! As an introduction (or re-introduction) I'd like to share the cli-fi piece of mine that released today: "We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now."
Read here for free: grist.org/climate-fict...
Read here for free: grist.org/climate-fict...
January 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hello #writingcommunity! As an introduction (or re-introduction) I'd like to share the cli-fi piece of mine that released today: "We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now."
Read here for free: grist.org/climate-fict...
Read here for free: grist.org/climate-fict...