Lyndsey Croal (she/her)

Creeping

At this point I need a bakery lolll 😂

I'll be at Cymera and Fantasy Con this year ✍️ just couldn't stretch to three cons, and now will have fomo...

Yes, hmm, a mysterious book that you speak of may be at Eastercon (sadly author absent, may send a ghost in my place...)

Happy "we really enjoyed your story, but..." Monday to me 😅

2026 books I've enjoyed! Loved @aknighton.bsky.social's Luna Novella! Starts with a great hook and amazing worldbuilding, and grows into a story both dark and poignant - still thinking about it! 🌱🖤 @lunapress.bsky.social

Managed to get a copy from the publisher of the academic textbook my story The Loneliness of Water is in, pretty cool to see how it'll be read and engaged with by students!! Also, love "the gloaming" highlighted as new vocab 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✨️🌊✍️

Ah thank you Daniel ✨️

Big stretch

Thanks Steven!! 🤗

CYMERA

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I've been told my stories go across both, usually my SF in the more accessible/transparent, then I have gone more lyrical with folklore and horror...I'm not sure I consciously thought about it at the time, though!

Made the crochet mushies a junimo pal...does this begin a Stardew series 👀🍄

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Alas I live in a city flat, but one day I will have a cottage with a wee farm in the woods with bees and hens and goats...oh wait that's stardew 😅💁‍♀️

We love supporting local writers and we're so excited to be championing a feminist horror fairy tale by Borders author Amy Jane Stewart.
Enter the dark woods and discover Hex House... Free event, Tuesday 28th April at The Station House, Stow. Booking essential - see our website for details.

a woman in a black jacket is surrounded by bees and says bees !! ALT: a woman in a black jacket is surrounded by bees and says bees !!

Spent a couple hours today watching beekeeping videos for about three paragraphs in my folk horror WIP, but now I want to take up beekeeping so...

Fantasy: The Outcast Mage by Annabel Campbell
Sci fi: An Unbreakable World by Ren Hutchings
Horror: Model Home by Rivers Solomon

Ugh solidarity!! I am very in my publishing existential crisis feels this week

Yes I'm working through it! Have mild ambitions for the 10k in May but we shall see...😅

Regretting my life choices to take up running in the rainiest Edinburgh months...but Week 3 is complete 💪

Also, imma be that person and ask if you've listened to A Million Points of Light and can rate and review it, I will love you forever, from afar, not creepily.

Please, my internet blessings upon you etc

Edinburgh!!!

Join me & @erisyoung.bsky.social tonight @argonautbooks.bsky.social for a wee chat on words, queer words.

7pm, come one come all

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Would not be opposed to a better email to balance this out 👁️

Happy three rejections Thursday to me 💀

Total Skull: February, 2026 Things that delighted me in February, 2026: T. D. Cloud, Ossuary In T. D. Cloud's Ossuary , a group of government "Curse Breakers" venture i...

Nice wee In This City, Where it Rains review: "...It's a horror show over there. If I had to do a comparison, I'd say that Lyndsey Croal's novella felt a bit like Crimson Peak meets Silent Hill." If those are your jam, check it out! 👀 ✨ talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/03/tota...

I can make one for you!! 🍄

Ooh that could be cool! 🍄

Wee fun-guys crochet practice, should I give them eyes? 👁

Oh gosh hope you have a speedy recovery!