An Exile of Water & Gold by @joshuawalkerau.sffinsiders.com "Truly, few things are more exciting to me in a book than when real-world natural phenomena are woven into the story in unique ways." Read @lyonspen.bsky.social's review here grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/a...

Hey #boksky, #writesky, #artsky, #romancelandia... link tree is going to start shoving things into AI without consent. This thread has some alternatives.

Y’all know that I have my public genAI author list. But I have never made a call for submissions! If you would like to be included on the list and you feel I might have missed you, please reply here and include what you use it for in your authorly endeavors 💖 🧵

Austringer's Wrath by @lyonspen.bsky.social "...this reader was once again seduced by the brilliance of the author and her creativity!" Read Jeremy's full review here! grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/a...

If anyone hates AI and has free time, my art discord has a few tasks that need doing that I’m behind on: - looking at the case files and adding names to the tldr AI author list - labeling tldr names with the proper emojis based on the manner of AI use (cover, writing, etc.) shown in receipts 🧵

Have you heard about my 1st book?👀 🚀🤖 A hopeful, swashbuckling space opera with the honest, colorful camp of Star Wars & the drama and found family of Firefly and Wayfarers. #BookSky 1. loner smuggler captain rescues grieving queen 2. alien apocalypse tech breaks containment 3. ✨shenanigans✨ ensue

No one is trying to take y’all’s serial commas. Please chill.

From Queen of Thorns. This scene was sort of inspired by my little cousin who would make chainsaw noises at the dinner table. I don't drink coffee, but we do have mugs that we collect and display. But my knee is aching so I can't go and find one right now.

Zero authors have been mobbed or canceled for using em-dashes or serial commas Zero I am begging the book community to stop falling for slopaganda meant to make it sound like witch hunting is some huge issue

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

Just a reminder that I have an art discord 🧍‍♀️ -public AI-using author list with receipts -non-AI artist and author list -free ebook covers -diy cover tutorials -AI in the news -in defense of things accused of AI -other shenanigans discord.gg/9wvaXFnH

If you would like to see my latest how-to cover video, it’s over on my twitter, IG and tiktok. I turned this photo into this cover, pretty much exclusively with the smudge tool and my finger in procreate pocket, plus a sepia filter in adobe express.

Here’s a hardback and a couple of paperbacks. There’s emotion magic, dragons, magic drugs, a dystopian-type world, more creatures, family issues, friendship, loss… I could go on, but don’t you already want to read this??

What’s the best way to tell people I have a book they can get on amazon, itch, kobo or mattfalcon.com?

Starlight Jewel by @lyonspen.bsky.social "E.L. you may as well efface me now, because I don’t think I could enjoy anything more in this world of yours, than what I just read..." Check out the full review from Jeremy grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/s...

Your Blood and Bones by @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social "This reads like a dark—perhaps a little grotesque—fairytale. Gauzy prose on a delicate frame." Read @lyonspen.bsky.social's full review here! grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/y...

Credit has to go to @lyonspen.bsky.social for being the first person I've ever interviewed in arctic conditions 🥶check out this awesome panel with @stevepannett.com @skbalstrup.bsky.social and @authoriseult.bsky.social

Austringer's Wrath by @lyonspen.bsky.social "Some of the characters are just so damaged, that all I wanted to do was hug them, and give them a home where they can feel they belong." Read Lesley's full review grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/a...

#FantasyIndiesNovember Day 5: Last, current and next reads Last: Austringer's Wrath – @lyonspen.bsky.social Current: Serpentus – @ajcalvin.bsky.social Next: Unlucky Evans, Cursed Odds – @williamjadams3.bsky.social and I really want to get to Daughters of Tith by @jpatriciaanderson.bsky.social

Introduction thread! 🥰🍁🌳 Hello, I am an indie fantasy author with one chonky, very different high/epic fantasy series starter (will be 5 books when done) 🌳✨ and one standalone dark fantasy with horror elements novella 🩸🐦‍⬛☠️ published so far 😎 1/X

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! 📚 💙

Austringer's Wrath by @lyonspen.bsky.social "The gritty, painful ordeals that Axly endures over the course of this book are enough to cause a lot of angst." Read Vivian's full review here grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/a...

Genuinely one of my favourite ongoing series and @lyonspen.bsky.social is 1000000000% one of my most favourite people. ❤❤

Some special deliveries arrived earlier than expected. I thought I'd do a spring photoshoot. @nataliekelda.bsky.social and @lyonspen.bsky.social

Book mail today!! And you honor me @lyonspen.bsky.social!!🎉🥳💜

What's up, Beasties!? Join me LIVE tonight at 7pm EST for Beast Friends Forever! My guest will be the creative, talented, and hilarious author E.L. Lyons ( @lyonspen.bsky.social )! It is going to be so much fun, see you there! #booksky #live #interview #podcast www.youtube.com/live/g8nHaE_...

“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.” Born of an Iron Storm -Age of Wrath Book 2 - is now available. #BookSky anthonyryan.net/2025/08/26/b...

Austringer's Wrath by @lyonspen.bsky.social "It’s a world that does not feel crafted at all. It feels like EL Lyons was peeking at it and simply translating what she saw into the pages." Read @andresstein.bsky.social's full review grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/a...

#IndieAuthorSummer day 37: Ready to discover a new author? Check out @lyonspen.bsky.social author of Starlight Jewel at t.co/egeugEhgxc. Already read the author's work and loved it? Consider sharing this post to help boost their books. #IndieAuthors #WritingCommunity #IndieBooks

Austringer’s Wrath, first book of its name, sequel to Starlight Jewel, second book in the Gifts of the Auldtree trilogy - ARCs available (link below) - Cover reveal on July 30th with @sffinsiders.com - Releases August 26th ARC link: dl.bookfunnel.com/jnkovm9015

Shenanigans with my faves @dlawsonauthor.bsky.social and @lyonspen.bsky.social are coming! And @zbsteele.bsky.social will be there too I'm going to be so tired during proper Saturday morning...

publication day! my story "desert silver blue" (a western inspired by the folk song, but with a fungal twist) and 28 others are out today in @gravesidepress.bsky.social's cosmic horror anthology KOSMOS OBSCURA. links below ⬇️

Please give this a read 🙏 lyonspen.substack.com/p/war-on-tic...

Starlight Jewel by @lyonspen.bsky.social "This book is a lot more than what it seems, but above it all, this is a book about love and self-discovery." Read @andresstein.bsky.social full review grimoireinkreviews.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/s...

One interesting thing about publishing an audiobook: each retailer seems to publish it just kind of whenever they feel like it. The rollout has been slower than I hoped but we're making progress. On the bright side, it's available on Spotify, where you can listen for free with Premium! 💙📚

DIGITAL EXTREMITIES is available for pre-order on @libro.fm! My sci-fi/slice of life short story collection will be out May 19th. 🔗 libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

#HorrorWritersChat Q1 Hi! I'm J. Neira, cozy horror author & a self-righteous hicklib. I slush read for Graveside Press! I write a scene where a parasitic ball of blood living inside a college student attempts to influence the student to kiss a corpse - to unite with the living blood in the corpse.

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

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 ⬇️

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 🧵

Not yet finished with the replay, but I'm having fun unpacking grammar. And @lyonspen.bsky.social gave me a catchy new review to use in marketing: "Beautiful, dark prose. Horrible, horrible story" 🙌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGil...

Interior art reveal for Austringer’s Wrath by the amazing @charlottehusseyart.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lyonspen...

I completed my SPFNO project (reading all the first chapters of the books that were not randomly selected for SPFBO) and here are my thoughts on each one (passes were anonymous), which ones I recommended, and which ones I added to my TBR: lyonspen.substack.com/p/spfno-comp...

Navvy Dreams: A Space Opera (Tales From a Stinking, Star-Crossed Milky Way Book 1) a.co/d/0j1jJvQa TAKE A JOB. FALL IN LOVE. TRY NOT TO BLOW UP SUNS.

Me: *having my 3rd small meltdown of the day, this time cause I broke my favorite kitchen shears* My boss: dude you need to calm down. I can’t handle you today. Me: I can’t handle me today either, that’s the whole reason I can’t calm down 😂

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🧵

✨Boston 2025✨ I spent a few days in Boston, MA, on a work trip earlier this year, and managed to pop along to the gorgeous Beacon Hill Books & Cafe 📚

I'm going to start coining phrases. “You enable my worst-best qualities." 🪙A Dichotomous Dickens🪙 〰️〰️〰️〰️ “This book was exceedingly adequate.” 🪙Hyperbolic Meh🪙 〰️〰️〰️〰️ My brain will do anything to avoid editing today, I apologize 😂

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 🧵

Recognized my mutuals @lyonspen.bsky.social @kiraofthewind.com and @drafoxter.bsky.social 's books here...well done ladies!