E.L. Lyons, VeiledDark Author
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lyonspen.bsky.social
E.L. Lyons, VeiledDark Author
@lyonspen.bsky.social
Author of Starlight Jewel, first book in the Gifts of the Auldtree series, no AI, is actually three raccoons in a peacoat

Links to book and other SM: https://linktr.ee/lyonspen?utm_source=linktree_profile
Please give this a read 🙏

lyonspen.substack.com/p/war-on-tic...
June 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I’ve made a discord server that’s exclusively for sharing social media/blog posts related to books 📖 no chatting, just keeping up with books and helping fellow readers and authors share their content when the algo doesn’t shine on them 💖

discord.gg/JvVrpSDq
May 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This morning for the art forum, I recreated the upcoming Sando cover with 2 free phone apps 🎉

No AI used. About 25 minutes. I did need a chip clip to pin my hair in the photo.

To procrastinate more, I made a similar one with different colors angles.

For details join the discord ⬇️
April 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Today’s experiment for the create-your-own-cover channel on the art discord:

Making a photo look like an illustration

Also turning yourself into an elf…

Do I write or read about elves? No. I am elfed out. But there will always be room in my heart for Lord of the Rings.

Time: 30 minutes
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April 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I was looking through my photos for something else and found this. I feel like I have a talent.

Idk what use it is or how to apply it properly to marketing, but it’s something 😅

I feel like I should be trying to sell this concept to an exterminator lol

“A long time ago, from a country far🧵
March 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Adding another book to the TBR this morning after reading the first 6 chapters from the sample 🔥

No, it's not a SPFNO book, and I intended to only read one chapter, but y'all know I love Mad Max and this is giving Mad Max 1.5 level of apocalypse: civilization is in the process of collapsing 🧵
March 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
A very simplified lesson on parentheticals 😅
February 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Jasper thinks my book is pretty cool, and you should buy it
February 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Does Jake care about dashes vs hyphens? Absolutely not. But maybe some authors might? 🥹
February 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Much like the Oxford comma, the vocative comma is basically useless (imo) until it’s not 😅 and when it’s not, it can lead to mixups!

This comma needs more attention, and would probably get it if it didn’t have such a stuffy name. I think this one seems more fitting!
February 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I made a similar post this morning on Twitter, but from a different angle 😂 I think that the adoption of exclamation commas and question commas would make the distinction between tags and beats clearer. Still, CMOS says no 🥴

I’ve never had much of an opinion on the two spaces issue though 🤷‍♀️
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
✨dialogue punctuation explained by Blossom and Aylin✨
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day to all the dark SFF folks who are hoping to be lavished with weaponry this year. I hope they got you those throwing knives 💖
February 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Jasper thinks that you should buy Starlight Jewel, just do it, be cool 😎
February 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
A sleepy writer and her creepy jar of research-hair

✨ E.L. Lyons, Ruining the Romance in Fairytales Since 2022 ✨
January 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Hey guys! Starlight Jewel got nominated for a number of awards, and voting is now open!!! 🎉🎉🎉

While I think morally gray character is what most SJ readers first think of, I do kind of feel like Axly and Cami’s friendship is the best 😂🔥

indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-...
December 16, 2024 at 1:42 PM
When you’re editing but it’s food time
December 6, 2024 at 7:20 AM
I used this nice looking lady with funny hair and an xray of a snake. Just play around with images in Adobe Express and you’ll see that you can do some very cool stuff
November 28, 2024 at 1:45 PM
“Just browsing” and then you can sort by resource type
November 28, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Tips:

-If you have an iphone, you can just press and hold an image in a photo, then hit copy and paste it into Adobe express. AE also allows you to remove a background.

- effects and silhouette let you turn a silhouette into an image

- you can change the color on anything
November 28, 2024 at 12:19 PM
What I was able to make in about 5 minutes using Adobe Express (free) and two free Smithsonian images plus a photo of a cool vine I took in the backyard. Original images below 🧵
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