Lyndsey Croal
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Writer | Apex, Analog, Weird Tales & more | BFA Finalist | HYDOYQ '23 & LIMELIGHT Sep '24 @shortwavebooks | DARK CRESCENT '25 Luna Press | Film/TV: Sean Berard
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✨Some exciting news!!✨Absolutely over the moon to announce that my debut short story collection LIMELIGHT will be coming out with
@ShortwaveBooks
on September 3rd THIS YEAR - in hardback, paperback & e-book! My first published full-length book, and a total dream!🚀✍️🎉🤖
LIMELIGHT by
@writerlynds
is a new collection of over twenty dark science fiction tales from near and far futures.
Perfect for fans of Black Mirror and Love, Death + Robots, LIMELIGHT will be out in hardcover, paperback, and eBook Sept. 3rd!
More info:
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The wee lion sleeps 🐈😭
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Pippin demands to know what books you'll be reading this holiday weekend 👀🐈📚✨️
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Pippin has had a very chilled second day home, with breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner everything a growing hobbit kitten needs 💙🤗
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Pippin might look sweet and angelic, but he's been full of beans and running around causing mischief all morning 🙃🐈
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For folks who followed me yesterday for Pippin pics, my account is usually mostly weird horror, sci fi, Scottish folklore, and writing and bookish chat...amongst the now occasional kitten pics 💁♀️🐈📚🤗
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Well this post is going a bit bonkers, folks here for the kitten pics, Pippin says hi 🐈😅
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Cat tree has been discovered and almost conquered, though Pippin is very unsure about the see through bubble part 🐈👀
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A week with Pippin, what a happy, fun, adventurous, mischievous, and adorable wee familiar he is 🥰
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Pippin, my April Fool of a Took, and today my wee writing companion extraordinaire ✨️📚🐈
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Note to self: don't unwrap a cat feather toy with your back to a kitten, as he will apparently leap onto you and climb up your back to get to it...🙃
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Came through to make a coffee after a work call and found him like this, he is taunting me 🙃🐈
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This morning Pippin did a wee head nudge into my chin for the first time, and it was the sweetest thing for at least two minutes...and then he bit me 🙃🥲
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It seems Pippin likes to fetch 🥺😭 (also of all the things, the scrunchy foil thing I got for 50p is of course his fave activity)
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Sometimes I think Pippin can't be goofier and he always proves me wrong 😭😂
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He has so many comfy cosy options, so of course he chooses a square paper towel to curl up on 😂
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In a slightly unexpected (and very exciting!) turn of events, I'm going to be taking up a writing Fellowship at Hawthornden Castle Literary Retreat near the end of November! A month in a Scottish castle just to write...not quite sunk in yet! 🤗🎉🏰✍️
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In Scotland, trick-or-treating is known as guising, a custom that traces back to a time when children were disguised as spirits to blend in with those active on Samhain night. When guising, children receive gifts to ward off evil in exchange for a story or song.
#FolkloreThursday
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Pippin sitting on the cushion I put in place of the plant pot he smashed earlier, don't tell me he didn't plan this 🙈
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Today's writing set up 💁♀️weekend target, 65k words of deep sea book ✍️
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Pippin is happy I'm home, but making sure I don't head off again 💁♀️🤗🐈
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Pippin has commandeered my hot water bottle, unacceptable hijinks💁♀️🐈
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In Scottish Hebridean folklore the aurora is known as Na Fir Chlis – the merry dancers who are supernatural sky warriors. When the lights move fast, then a great battle is ongoing between clans. As blood fell from the wounded to Earth it created bloodstones.
#FolkloreThursday
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Introducing Pippin to Stardew Valley, new updates so a new farm - perfect Friday afternoon 🐈👩🌾
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🎉Delighted to share that I'm now represented by
@RobbieGuillory
at
@KNLitAgency
! 🎉
Still feels slightly surreal, and I'm so excited to be working with Robbie on this next step - starting with my adult
#scifi
novel about an astrobotanist lost in a creepy alien jungle! 🚀🌳👩🚀
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I'm unbelievably excited to share that my collection of dark and seasonal Scottish folklore tales DARK CRESCENT has found the perfect home with
@LunaPressGlobal
! It'll be out in the first half of next year - a total dream to be working with Luna!💙🌙
We are delighted to welcome to the Luna family, Scottish writer
@writerlynds
Lyndsey Croal! Her fantasy folk collection, Dark Crescent, will be published in June 2025. 🥰
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A very chill Friday night, magic, murder, and mystery courtesy of
@Frances_Writes
's Voyage of the Damned and the perfect reading company 📚🐈🥺
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Ah woke up to an acceptance for what might be my favourite horror short story for a very cool anthology! ✨️🎉🖤
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Pippin is helping me celebrate the 1 year book birthday of Have You Decided on Your Question! 🎉 It's been an exciting year, and I'm so grateful to
@ShortwaveBooks
for giving this Black Mirror-esque tale of dark tech and obsession a chance! Excited for our next project ✨️👀📚
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A bit of flat reorganisation and now I have a nice and bright writing nook (with the £10 desk find I upcycled this year) - editing today, in preparation for writing the final quarter of deep sea book...! 🤗✍️
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Weighing up how to distract us so he can steal the dice...
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Pals usually visit when Pippin is really chill, so they of course don't believe me about his morning and midnight zoomies...💁♀️🐈
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Just found a writing bureau desk for £10 😯 I've always wanted one! Going to be a fun wee DIY project to upcycle ✨️ 🤗
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Thinking about writing villains, and how sometimes simplicity is best - like was there anything more terrifying than that penguin disguised as a chicken from Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers?
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Acceptance tweet, and my first ever story at pro-level pay 🎉😁 Excited to share more soon!
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End of March: writing companion incoming 🐾📚😍 (currently shortlisting names, but look at his wee face!🥺✨️)
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✨EXCITING NEWS✨ I have a wee book coming out with the fantastic
@ShortwaveBooks
!
'Have you Decided on Your Question' is a dark SF novelette set in Edinburgh about love, VR, and obsession - and it's out in April in paperback and ebook! My first single-author publication!🎉😱🖤
Final new deal for 2022!
We are very excited to announce HAVE YOU DECIDED ON YOUR QUESTION, a sci-fi novelette coming April 2023, by Lyndsey Croal (
@writerlynds
)!
Read more here:
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The contract is all signed (which confirms I didn't dream it)...but I'm so excited to have sold a story to
@Analog_SF
!! "We Maintain the Moons" is about a moon-maintaining robot living in the dark and frozen edges of an Alderson disk world - can't wait to see it in Analog!🌖🤖✨
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Writing spot for the morning 😍 Second draft, here I come...✍️
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The Nuckelavee or "devil of the sea" was a terrifying Orcadian sea creature, part horse, part man with no skin, and black blood. Its breath could cause droughts, spoil crops or bring about a plague. The only way to escape its wrath was to step into fresh water.
#FolkloreThursday
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✨Book news! My weird coastal horror novelette The Girl with Barnacles for Eyes is being published in
@TenebrousPress
's SPLIT SCREAM V5 in July, alongside Bitter Karella's brilliant-sounding Western horror tale! Thrilled to be working with
@AlexEbenstein
& the Tenebrous team!🌊✨
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Exciting bio update 👀 I'm now repped by Sean Berard at Grandview for Film & TV things! What a dream it would be to potentially get some adaptation interest...🤞✨️(Though still seeking lit rep/soon to be querying again with deep sea book, it's all a process!) ✍️🌊
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Work done for the week, and tomorrow I'm away for a long weekend writing retreat with writer pals - perfection! Will miss wee Pip but he'll get his own R&R weekend with my Mum...hope she knows what she's letting herself in for... 💁♀️
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Came across an old abandoned cottage on our daily walk today, thought it might make a good
#writingprompt
...👀🙊
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The Clava Cairns in the Scottish Highlands are prehistoric burial grounds that may have inspired Outlander's Craigh na Dun. Twenty years ago, a Belgian tourist took a stone from a cairn but then sent it back with a letter claiming it had cursed his family.
#FolkloreThursday
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The Ghillie Dhu - a tree and nature guardian from Scottish folklore - roams the birch woods in the north-west Highlands, clothed in leaves and moss. The name was the origin for the ghillie suit, a form of camouflage clothing used today.
#FolkloreThursday
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In Scottish Highland lore, the devil was sometimes known as Black Duncan or Black Donald. With cloven feet and the voice of a bleating goat, he would haunt buildings as an omen of a calamity to come, and would often appear at card games - or the "devil's books".
#FolkloreThursday
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It's March! Here's a thread of some cool mags/anthologies opening for subs today (all paid!)🧵(1/8)
First up,
@hexagonmagazine
from 1st-7th (open first 7 days of every second month) for speculative stories up to 10k!🧡
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I'm having an out of body experience, I'm shortlisted for Best Audio in the BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS (!!) with my debut audio drama Daughter of Fire and Water with
@StoriesAlt
!! 😱😭
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I've had 24 new pieces published this year so far, in mags & anthologies (with a few to come)! I'm going to do a proper awards eligibility post soon, but for now here's some that are available online! Ft Scottish folklore, hauntings, robots, space ghosts, & weird plants 👇✨📖
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It's going to be funny watching a Hobbit-named cat becoming a giant floof...he definitely does love his second breakfasts though 😅🐈💁♀️
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In the birch woods by Gairloch in the Scottish Highlands, it was said that the Ghillie Dhu - a tree guardian - wandered there, cloaked in leaves and moss. Though he'd often help lost children, he wasn't so kind to adults.
#FolkloreThursday
🌳
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The Baobhan Sith is a vampire in Scottish folklore appearing as beautiful woman to trick and seduce her victims. She was said to lure young hunters, dance with them until they were too exhausted to escape, then overpower them and drink their blood.
#FolkloreThursday
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Delighted to have won the second place prize in the BFS Short Story Competition this year! 🎉 Big congrats to the other winners, David and Dan! 🤗 Look out for my dark SF story in a future BFS Horizons next year 📚✨️
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First story acceptance of 2024, for a Scottish folklore-inspired story about strange seas, weird weather, and the creatures that come to shore at night...appropriate as I got the email as I was out getting some fresh air by stormy seas up north 🌊🖤 more soon!
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Ahhh an acceptance for a dream thing I've been submitting to basically since I started writing shorts, with a couple of close but not quites before!! I think this might be 20th time lucky (at least lol...), so this feels like a big one - more very soon!! ✨🎉
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The Ceasg is a Scottish mermaid half-woman, half-salmon. In some tales, she swallowed men whole, trapping them in her stomach. To rescue them, her soul - often contained in an enchanted egg - had to be destroyed. If caught, she could also grant three wishes.
#FolkloreThursday
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Shout out to my 4am self who woke up in a fugue and thought she'd just dreamt an entire book, wrote the PERFECT plot, then went back to sleep...for daytime me to find (where to even begin...) 🙃🤔
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Contract signed! Beyond excited that my story "To Gut a Fish, First Gather its Bones" about a grandmother seeking revenge against the sea monster that took her family will be published in MONSTER LAIRS from
@dark_matter_ink
edited by
@anna_madden_
! ✨️🌊🦴🐟🗡🖤
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Typewriter lamp now taking pride of place on my Edinburgh Press - no regrets 🤩💡
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Pippin the kitten is coming home with me tonight, I can't wait!!🥹😱🐱
End of March: writing companion incoming 🐾📚😍 (currently shortlisting names, but look at his wee face!🥺✨️)
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Contract signed so very happy to share that
@uncharted_mag_
will be publishing my SF story "The Rift Between Us" next year! Thanks
@TommyDeanWriter
for believing in this strange tale about a woman searching for her lost love in a Rift where those who die in space go to rest.🚀👻
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What if...I just signed a thing...a very exciting thing...that I'll get to announce soon👀Now treating myself to a celebratory cup of tea before bed (I know how to live)🫖🤗🎉
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✨️OUT NOW ✨️ It's launch day for my debut novelette from
@ShortwaveBooks
! 🎉
HAVE YOU DECIDED ON YOUR QUESTION is a dark SF tale described as Black Mirror meets Sliding Doors..🖤👁❔️
Links in bio/thread! And find me reading a snippet from the book below too 👇
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Exciting news! I'm SO delighted that my Black-Mirrory short story 'Patchwork Girls'📽️🎬will appear in Issue 12 of
@dark_matter_mag
in November!
Big thanks to Rob and the team for believing in the story and giving it the perfect home! My second pro sale this year (and ever!)✨🎉
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Looks like the cat's out of the bag! Beyond humbled and excited that my Scottish feline folklore story is going to be in
@weirdtales
!! The Taxidermist follows a Cat-sìth detective investigating the murder of witches' familiars🐈⬛🧙♀️Thanks
@JonathanMaberry
for giving it a chance!✨
Our newest issue will have you slithering through the back alley to uncover the most demented secrets known to our species.
The Occult Detective issue has arrived!
Preorder and read more about it here
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If you have a secret you need to keep, you can tell a willow tree and it will trap it safely in its trunk. Maybe this explains why the willow weeps, from holding all those secrets over so many years...?
#FolkloreThursday
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