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Natalie Kelda

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I'm an author of (space) fantasy and Viking age historical fiction. ESL speaker, biologist, Danish. she/her https://nataliekelda.co.uk/book-links

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 6d

Proof copy arrived and it's looking gorgeous 🤩

10 days until I have a finished trilogy out in the world!

If you need a dark spacey fantasy series with slow burn romance and mental health rep, give it a go!

📚 💙

Hand holding paperback book which has a green cover with a dark forest on a spacey sky. A glowing blue bird soars above and the title is in gold lettering across the bottom: Verselva Blues.

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 5h

At least it's Friday, right? 😂

Black and white cat looking sleepy and missed with it's tongue between the teeth.

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 20h

I completely get that! Barry stopped eating for a week last month. Clear vet checks and everything. Then I discovered it was the new floor length mirror. He gets so worked up seeing himself he stops eating!

Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 20h

Aw yay! I'll let you know as I read Imbued but I can't imagine anything but vibing with that. If I beta read, I'll do 1-2 chapters first and let you decide if the kind of feedback I do is useful. I can get a bit wordy which some find overwhelming 🙈

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 20h

(Charlie art by Miriam Yvette. Ermin by me)

Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 20h

Verselva Blues release count down: 5 Days to go

Charlie's an antagonist/occasional ally. He refuses to call Balfour a friend until after they part ways.
Ermin is a talking stoat and a world of trouble. He attaches himself to Charlie and they remain friends until their deaths.

Portrait of man snarling man baring his light blue fangs. He has long black to blue ombre hair. Yellow and orange beads dot the locks and he stares at the viewer. He wears a black shirt with green and red triangle patterns and pine trees. A black dotted tattoo is on the shaved part of his head.

Drawing of a red and white stoat sitting on its haunches with it's mouth open.

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 1d

Aw no i hope they'll both be alright!

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 1d

I should finish my WIP this week btw so I'll start reading Imbued very soon! I have a short book club read first but should definitely be available end of October if you still need a beta reader 🥰

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 1d

Most recent indie reads! Highly recommend!

Baker Thief @clh2oars.bsky.social
Taken @katkinneywrites.bsky.social
Artifice & Access @ellatholmes.bsky.social
Dirt You Shall Become @karenlykkebo.com
Moonshadow's Guardian @diannalgunn.bsky.social
The Wisdom of Cerridwen @tristahendren.bsky.social

Collage of six indie book covers from top left to bottom right...
Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault
Taken by Kat Kinney
Access and Artifice organized by Ella T. Holmes
Dirt You Shall Become by Karen Lykkebo
Moonshadow's Guardian by Dianna Gunn
The Wisdom of Cerridwen by Girl God Books

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 1d

No worries, and I'm glad you're taking charge! It's so upsetting with the feed is just full of rubbish stuff. My threads feed has started showing me pictures of frogs this month and I'm not complaining 😂

Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 1d

Second but no less menacing or dangerous, is Skylar. And yes, he's Skye's (the LI) dad. Born on the streets of Magrath, he's murdered his way into the tarilla elite and is Thalia's only true oponent in the quest for supreme leadership over the city.

Portrait of a man wearing a black shirt with embroidery detail on the collar and silver dotted circles by the shoulder. He has amber and green eyes and above the ears length dark brown curls with reddish tips.

Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 1d

Verselva Blues release count down: 6 Days to go

Villain time!

First up is Thalia. She's a bit of a megalomaniac. Everything she ever does and ever has done is driven by her desire for ultimate power and control. To her, people are objects.

Next skeet for the second villain ⏬

A woman seen from the waist up in a side view. She has pale purple hair and is holding a piece of meat that is drippign with blood in front of the nose of a giant gila monster-like lizard with huge teeth and saliva dripping from the tip of the forked, bluish tongue. Stone archways with rose-shaped pillars in the background.

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 2d

Had another wonderful review for Reflections of Lilje Damselfly 💙

Threads post screenshot, @majaspang
Just finished this lovely story by @nataliekelda 🩵
If you need to read something cozy and romantic, but also melancholic, go grab this book. It's about a chronically ill water nymph that falls in love with a human woman and must face a tough decision about her own life.
Especially recommend if you struggle with a chronic illness and would like to see it reflected in a fantasy(ish) setting.

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 2d

Art for the past 3 days have been by Miriam Yvette!

Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 2d

Verselva Blues release count down: 7 Days to go

Callum and Martha! My favourite ace couple and Balfour's Magrathian BFF's. They don't share much about their murderous first few months together but they long since decided they prefer a quiet life on the outskirts of society.

A couple in a dramatic, close dance pose. To the left is the woman, leaning towards the man on the right with her right leg slightly lifted and her leftt hand behind the man's head. Their foreheads are touching and they look into each other's eyes. The man has a hand at the small of the woman's back and their fingers are entwined. The bbackground is a dark city scape with a peachy pink and green sky and orange light glow from windows.

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 2d

Be super ruthless clicking "not interested" and mute a bunch of words. Don't interact in any other way with those posts. I never see anything I don't want on Threads, the algorithm is quite good once you get it trained!
And will tag you in horror rec posts then!

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 3d

Oof i feel that. A lot of people have been showing their true faces lately and when it's someone you thought you knew and could trust... The division we're seeing at the moment is terrifying.

Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 3d

I think the best thing we can do is keeping ourselves safe and sane, mostly by escaping into other worlds as much as possible(it's what I do to cope anyway, I can't deal with how this world is atm)

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 3d

There are a lot of people asking for horror recs on threads, do you want me to tag you on some of those? You'll only get a sale every 20+ comments you leave but it's *something* I suppose.

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 3d

Verselva Blues release count down: 8 Days to go

Skye is both the warmest, kindest person you can ever meet and one of the absolute deadliest. She's working on some big revolutionary plans when she runs into Balfour and she knows their budding romance can jeopardise it all.

Portrait of a woman with green eyes with amber around the pupils. Her curly hair is braided loosely and has gold beads and wine-red highlights. She wears a ruby earrings and has a black dot tattoo shaped as two circles around her ear so the ruby earring is the centrepoint. Her shirt is a silky red with floral decorations on the collar.

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D.C. (Desi) Heart @desiheart.bsky.social · 4d

The itchio launch bundle has ended, but I’ve officially set up a Kofi goal to get Elven published in paperback! If we meet this goal (which covers formatting and print costs) by October 31st, then I’ll be able to offer Elven in paperback and list my first ever book boxes! 💙📚

ko-fi.com/desiheart013

Elven by D.C. Hart (a dark scenic background with a green hued mirror in the foreground).

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 4d

I'm.sorry Erika, I wish I knew how to make it go away but truth is, I feel it creeping up as well 🫂

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 4d

I had an amazing review over on Instagram yesterday 🥰

If you haven't yet, you really ought to check out Reflections of Lilje Damselfly. Grab a paperback with merch on my site or read it on KU today!

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Book Recommendation

I'm going to need you guys to stop what you're doing and pick up Reflections of Lilje Damselfly by @nataliekelda immediately. I picked this up on a whim last night as I was cleaning my little library room. It was calling to me at the top of one of my stacks, because @foxandwit made this lovely edition in one of their last book boxes. I didn't know anything about this book going in, and I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY. This book is heartbreakingly beautiful. It packs the biggest punch in only 200 pages. This book is about what it means to lose yourself in chronic illness and how to find yourself on the other side. How to stand up for yourself and what you want. How to find and accept love, even when it's forbidden. And how to take the path less traveled, because it might lead to the most beautiful ending.

My gods this was stunning. I didn't have crying before 8am on my bingo card, but I'm so glad I picked this up. And I kept thinking about the similarities and illness rep between this story and When the Tides Held the Moon, which is another of my absolute favorites of the year.

This is a 5 star read, easy. And it's on Kindle Unlimited. Do yourself a favor and pick up this sapphic love story between a water nymph & a human as soon as possible. My goodness. I'm (almost) too stunned to speak.

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 4d

Hooray! September was *rough* to say the least. I'm hoping it picks back up this month.

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you 🥰

Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 4d

Under Far Galaxian Skies(book 1): books2read.com/u/3L5ve5

PRE-ORDER Verselva Blues (book 3): books2read.com/u/bog95R