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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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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 9h
I'd love for you to read my Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book during the Halloween season.

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This is a photo of a paperback copy of The Atrocities by me (Jeremy C. Shipp). The cover features a creepy old manor house, storm clouds, and a hedge maze. The book is against a brick wall with vines growing around and over the book.
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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 11h
Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.
Cover image to the book, showing the back of an astronaut in a space suit as he steps off into a psychedelic swirl of cosmic colors and stars. The title circles around the figure.
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 10h
Crochet learning adventures: Hat!
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 11h
Ah thank you!! I enjoyed adding the sun ☀️🥲
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 13h
A lino printing kind of day 🌊✨️🖤
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 13h
I'm down after Fantasy Con for work 👀 might have a nosy...
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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 15h
Out next week! @gemmafiles.bsky.social's LITTLE HORN includes 14 dark short stories and novelettes, each with an accompanying original full-page illustration by the author.

Available in hardcover, paperback, and eBook!
shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/litt...
Cover art for LITTLE HORN shows the title spelled out in bound sticks on a dark dirt background. Natural bits of earth and nature are mixed in to the dirt. Gemma's author name appears in pumpkin orange with little horns incorporated into the serif typography.
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 17h
Ah so similar! A maine coon/cross?
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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 20h
Last but not least in our cover reveal catch-up week is Hunt The Ever Wild coming 23rd June 2026 from the excellent S.E. Kiser.

Forest-core, dark-gaslamp fantasy plus slow-burn rivals-to-lovers. All the hyphens! Plus curses, magical creatures, witches and a competition where everything is at stake.
A cover reveal panel featuring the cover of a book called Hunt the Ever Wold by S.E. Kiser. The cover features a rich forest border with, amongst others an exotic moth and a phoenix.
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World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · 20h
It's just 28 days to WFC. PR3 has gone out and with it the news about our new MC. We are very sorry to lose Sarah Pinborough but delighted to welcome Joanne Harris.
Joanne Harris was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has written over 20 novels, published in over 50 countries.
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 18h
Floof 🐈
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 18h
Oooh this sounds so fun!
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Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 23h
"Small acts of kindness and service can change the world. Sometime it all comes down to helping one person, and letting those actions ripple from there." You can read the full blog by @dmbeucler.bsky.social on @scalzi.com The Big Idea 💙
The Big Idea: D. M. Beucler
Small acts of kindness may not always seem like they change the world, but they certainly change the world of whoever you’re helping. Author D. M. Beucler discusses how acts of kindness are a…
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 1d
🎂🎉Happy UK Book Birthday to RAGWORT, @samkhorton.bsky.social 's much-anticipated sequel to his deliciously dark fantasy GORSE!

Welcome back to 18th century Cornwall, where Keeper Nancy Bligh is still holding the line against the dark...

Buy now - geni.us/ragwort
Against a gold fabric background, a splayed hardback stack of GORSE and RAGWORT by Sam K. Horton. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.
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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 1d
🎉🎉 COVER REVEAL TIME 🎉🎉

I am so, so hyped to bring you THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY 🥳 coming May 2026!
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Jelena @jelenawrites.bsky.social · 1d
You can now add Love Lethal, Death Divine on Goodreads
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
I have been reliably informed that you can now grab copies of Dark Crescent at But n' Ben Books in Stonehaven! (Lovely to see it in the North East where I was when I wrote many of the stories!) Wee event there coming soon also...👀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙✨️ @lunapress.bsky.social
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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 1d
Pick up our Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology, Why Didn't You Just Leave, if you like your ghost stories dark, scary, and smart. #halloween #ghosts #horror
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Why Didn't You Just Leave paperback | Cursed Morsels Press
It's the question asked of any story about a haunting: why didn't you just leave? But if accounts of people who have stayed in haunted houses are any indication … it's never that simple.In...
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
Huge congratulations to @pegasusunder.bsky.social!! So great to see ✨🧡🎉
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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 1d
📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡

My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!
Publishers Marketplace, Z. K. Abraham's My Darling Clementine, in which a Black queer woman, who, feeling lost in teh depths of an unhappy marriage, leaves it all behind, only to lose herself completely-and beyond human recognition-to a new love, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2027, by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency (world English). Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency
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Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 1d
📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡

My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!
Publishers Marketplace, Z. K. Abraham's My Darling Clementine, in which a Black queer woman, who, feeling lost in teh depths of an unhappy marriage, leaves it all behind, only to lose herself completely-and beyond human recognition-to a new love, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2027, by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency (world English). Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
The plot was to suddenly grab my leg, claws out, and look at me like a menace
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
He's definitely plotting something
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E. J. Swift @catamaroon.bsky.social · 1d
When There Are Wolves Again is out in the UK today! I wrote something about the book, and keeping going, and some personal stuff I dithered over but, well, it's been A Year.

I'm so glad the book is out there and thank you so much to everyone who has supported it 🐺🤍

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Hardback edition of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift, with cover featuring a wolf and branch/leaf/flower design, photographed in the garden with the author's cat in the background being dramatic
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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 1d
When There Are Wolves Again is released today!

@catamaroon.bsky.social's new novel is a hopeful but believable dystopia, tackling speculative themes of biodiversity and environmental disaster, pandemic, justice, and our possible future, all explored in a deeply human & affecting way.

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A hand holds a copy of the book in a bookshop. On the cover a wolf in greens and blues fades into sapling trees reaching up to surround the letters of the title with delicate leaves.
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 2d
It's aran jewelspun from Sirdar (got from John Lewis, thought it was very pretty so couldn't resist!)
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