✨Cover Reveal Time!✨ ZENITH-Book 3 Between the Birches Trilogy It all ends 9/13/2027... Swipe for more>>🖤 #indiebooks #supernaturalhorror #comingsoon

Civic duty done. Here’s hoping for good news in the morning. 🤞🏻

As I edit the sequel to this story, an updated post about FRACTURED CHILDREN OF EARTH! - Disabled & queer characters - Respect for identity - No punching down - No romance For fans of Wayfarers, The Expanse, and Andor! * Cover art by Ashe Samuels (www.artofashesamuels.com) #SciFi #AdultFiction

Authors: Do any of you use Tertulia for sending newsletters? I’m tempted to upgrade my account but need more input. #tertulia #newsletters #indieauthor

810 words in Zenith today. It’s not much, but I’m doing the thing. Also, I’m crocheting book covers for FrankenCon. Here’s the prototype. Best thing? It’s a ‘book’ book cover. 😅😁

When the spice flows…

Final day to submit your works to the 2026 BBNYA!

#vssmurder #prompt

When you’re sitting at your writing desk and your nose squeaks like a deflating balloon, does this mean you should crawl back in bed? 😅 Pretty sure pollen is trying to ☠️ me. 🤦🏻‍♀️

We’re keeping sign ups open until Friday May 1st!!!

Update on Once Upon A Market Saturday: It was the BEST day, y’all. I learned a lot, met some lovely readers, & had awesome neighbors. 🥰 An unexpected turn: selling out of Awakening 3 hours before the end of the event. 😅 Live & learn, right? Next up: FrankenCon in June. 🫶🏻 #indieauthor #bookfaire

#vssmurder #prompt

Truth!

This Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! I’ll be celebrating by setting up at the Damsel Romantic Bookstore’s Book Faire. 🌻 Come out for bookish delights, scavenger hunts, & a raffle! See Damsel’s IG for full details. 🖤

This Saturday at the Mill on Etowah in Canton. Be there or be 🟥😅🫶🏻

(Cross-posting from Instagram, so it looks a lil clunky. Hopefully it's still decently readable.) I genuinely hate what generative AI is doing to art - and the people who create it - and I refuse to take part in this ridiculous song and dance.

The blooms on our ginormous snowball bush in the backyard survived the blackberry winter rain and wind. Though, when a ‘bush’ becomes as tall as the house, does that make it a tree? 😂🌻

All set up and ready for the day! #blairsvillega #springdowntownmarket #indieauthor

Double-duty stuffs this week: Work on getting all my bookish things organized for this weekend’s event while also cleaning my depression piles. (They’re overlapping.) Creative moments are hard to come by these days, so I know this will help. 😊 Bonus task: Take the 15yo to the gym 3 days. 🌻

Happy #NarratessSale and Release week! Bear My Heart is part of the sale as it's on a special $1.99 for release week! Check out the sale: https://indiebook.sale/ Or get Bear directly at my webpage: https://www.karenlykkebo.com/category/all-products 💙📚

Born to be a beast 🐺 Readers of X In Beast Born, dive into raw werewolf origins, savage transformations, and primal power struggles in this gripping dark fantasy shifter tale 🌒 Will the beast consume everything? ⚔️ Out now on Amazon/Kindle Unlimited! 📖 #IndieApril #AmReading

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The Friday Featured Spotlight has ALL the posts from the #BBNYA2025 Finalists Blog Tours of #ChristmasInCastleby by @jmsimpsonauthorbsk.bsky.social & #MissBennetsDragon by @mverant.com. Go check them out! #romanticsuspense #fantasy #retelling #Booksky 📚💙 @bbnya.bsky.social @thewritereads.bsky.social

Come see me Saturday, April 18th in Blairsville, GA! I'll be hanging out between my friends at Book Bound Bookstore and Hemlock Trading Company, so make sure you come say, "Hi!" #indieauthor #shopsmallbusiness #bookishevents

We're weeks away from Once Upon A Market, and I am SO EXCITED! It's going to be filled with bookish folks milling around for their next read. Hope to see you there! ❤️ Hosted by: Damsel, A Romantic Bookstore 📚 TBR Book Bus 📚 The Mill on Etowah #indieauthors #onceuponamarket #bookfaire

This has apparently really upset wotsit Hitler, so please don't share it

Five shows to get to know me: • Buffy the Vampire Slayer • Castle Rock • Penny Dreadful • Firefly • Samurai Champloo

New edition, new cover. Let’s see how far she goes! 🤘🏻 Good luck to all BBNYA 2026 entrants! 🤞🏻

A huge #BBNYA2026 welcome to @kpwritesfantasy.bsky.social and Awakening: Book One Between the Birches. Good luck!

You know it's been 'one of those weeks' when you switch webhosts/domain providers and download all of your content...EXCEPT for the handful of newsletter emails. They're gone. I deleted the website to get the refund before my window closed. Epic face palm on my part. #indieauthor #websitewoes

Read "The one where hope is likened to a jump scare and also a hat"one of 42 stories found in Interesting Times: a Hopepunk anthology 💙📚 Mybook.to/InterestingTimes

I'm getting top surgery this summer!I need to save up to cover the out of pocket portion, so I'm opening map commissions! Great for TTRPGs, your upcoming book, or just because ko-fi.com/lillylockwoo... Donate directly: ko-fi.com/lillylockwoo... Or buy my books! lillylockwood.carrd.co#voicesofvalh...

Read "If you keep playing with the zombies, someone is going to die"one of 42 stories found in Interesting Times: a Hopepunk anthology 💙📚 Mybook.to/InterestingTimes

This is gonna be a blast! #frankencon2026 #frankenfamily

Anyone near Canton, GA? I’ll have a table set up at the Mill on Etowah for ‘Once Upon A Market’ hosted by Damsel Romantic Bookstore on April 25th. There will be a bunch of authors and artisans, so stop by and say HI! 🫶🏻 #bookfair

Because it’s been eons… Author 🖤 First Page 🖤 Book #indieauthor #supernaturalhorror #kindlebooks

In light of the dumpster fire that was my former publisher, I blew the dust off my publishing company concept and brought it to life. Currently, Lunar Ridge Publishing is a single passenger paddle boat. Once I get my bearings—and more funding—it'll grow. For now, LRP is an imprint. Wish me luck!

It was a blip on the radar of life, but I learned many lessons. I thank the team for having our backs, but the doors on this part of my authoring journey are closed. Hello, self-publishing, my old friend. 🌻 #indieauthor

#indieauthor #indiebooks #betweenthebirchestrilogy #cosmichorror #romantichorror #folkhorror 🖤

Just reposting this once more as he’s STILL following my friends and offering promo for money and confusing the heck out of everyone. NOT ME. I DO NOT CHARGE FOR BOOK PROMO!!! NOT ME. DON’T FOLLOW. Writers Beware has a whole article on this guy 😭😩😱

Family game night!! We’re gonna need to crank up the difficulty. We took care of the Shoggoths and cultists way too easily. 😅 #ttrpg #indieauthor #nerd #familygamenight

This. When I see the Threads posts wanting us Americans to ‘Post a gif to show how angry you are!’ Here’s mine. Adam Conover’s rage covers how I feel, he just said it better than I could.

This VSS included the words: kiss & trial Learn more about the Between the Birches Trilogy at BDAPublishing.com #IndieBooks

Back before BtB Awakening was published, I did a series of related VSS on the app formerly known as Twitter. This is the beginning of a reprisal for folks new to my trilogy... #indiebooks

Harken, Readers & Bookish Folk! The navigation pane in Word is at the bottom. It shall scrolleth no more! Harbinger is upon us… …well, it’s nearing another read-through for my editors. 😅🔥 #indiebooks #amediting

Has it been a month since my last post? In the words of Inigo Montoya, let me sum up…😅 Edits on Book 2 of my fantasy cosmic folk horromance trilogy are back in swing…as of last week. We survived the holidays, & now there’s a snowpocalypse looming. Leftover lasagna for lunch. Chaos ensues. 😘

How my night is going. 😄☕️

Post a movie gif from the year you were born.

Hello, Friday. If you’ve seen my motivation, please alert me immediately. Until then…

Is it possible to have a CRUSH on a voice?? Patrick Wilson, man…with Tobias Forge is magic. I’ve listened to this song four times now and it still gives me chills. 🖤🤌🏻