Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author

Some of my coworkers have been sick for a month solid and today I watched someone with pneumonia try to work a half day when they should have been flat. When I'VE been the healthiest person on a team for months and I'm posting at 4 am through insomnia x storm migraine... test your con crud, friends!

THAT FLYING CARPET PLATE! And specially inset mug! And also the Turkish Delight looks delicious!
(oh yeah also there's a book in there!)
but ✨food geeking AND ceramics geeking at the same time,✨ Kate knows exactly where to aim with the shinies 🤣

And here's this week's recipe: Zirbaj of Plausible Deniability, both carnivorous and vegetarian options, if anyone wants or needs an upcoming alternative to St. Pat's corned beef and/or beef stew. (I'm KOed by both corned beef and the cornstarch in most stew.) lynnstrong.com/2026/03/07/z...

I forgot to qp last week's recipe bc it went with the feel-better bundle: bouncy puppies, magical libraries, a good dose of therapy, & cinnamon date rolls from Christy Matheson, @feelingsandmagic.bsky.social , and @katevalent.bsky.social. Very needed! 💕Links still up!
lynnstrong.com/2026/02/27/k...

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(Also, copies still available if any ARC readers want an early read?)
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(eeeeeee! kermitflailing from this direction too :D :D :D I'm so glad you liked it, this one is giving me Much More Anxiety than Haroun did....)

I've also got the problem where I watch a mental film reel with captions and have to figure out how much to transcribe, not helped by college coursework in playwriting and scriptwriting and multiple Shakespeare and other-language drama classes where the dialogue was all you had... 😅

Cozy Fantasy ARCs You'll Love

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Hey #cozyfantasy ARC readers: Anyone want some more free books before they're even released?

BookSirens has a Cozy Fantasy ARC collection with 12 books for your enjoyment: booksirens.com/bundle/cozy-...

PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

We told you that book-banners wouldn't stop at the states.

They're now trying to give the Federal Government the right to regulate your reading.

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#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #lit #literature #author #authors #write #writing

Chai with extra neurospic8ness! (clinks virtual mugs together :D)

Neurotypical Author Advice: "Don't put in character sheets, it makes things look too hard"

Neurospicy Author: "But I want character sheets so the *actual" experience will be LESS hard"

Neurotypical Advice: "But the VIBES, man"

(this is also likely why I am such a failure at marketing lol)

(raises hand) low vision MECFS person. Also wrote most of first 2 books at 2-6 AM in the dark bc light-sensitive, one finger at a time, on a tablet on dark mode... without AI anything.

And AI generated alt text is usually incorrect anyway bc it doesn't understand what it's "seeing" or the context.

Authors have been told "don't do that, it makes your book look too intimidating and pretentious, you're not JRR Tolkien," but I'm out here waving the #teamcheatsheet flag as someone who's snuck character lists and vocabulary lists and bonus recipes into the back matter...

Four people smiling and gaming together, overlaid with a purple tint. Text reads: "AbleToPlay — Join the Community! [tinyurl.com/AbleToPlayDiscord."](http://tinyurl.com/AbleToPlayDiscord.%22) Good Trouble × GDC Festival of Gaming by Informa.

We gotta dash before the GDC team catches us, but we wanted to leave you with this: ✨ Accessibility matters because FUN matters, and we want every gamer to be able to join in! ✨ Join the AbleToPlay community on Discord here: [https://tinyurl.com/AbleToPlayDiscord]

💙📚🌈📚🪐📚 Mad props to @alexandrarowland.bsky.social on accessible ebook design from the first page! Just opened Running with the Wind and discovered that instead of an image with probably a white background and some skinny spidery font, the Tarot-like card was regular resizable words in a box outline.

March is when we celebrate womanhood. These bundle of books encapsulate the perfect way to celebrate!

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#booksky #readersky #readers #books #booksonbluesky #queersky #readingcommunity #writingcommunity

Add "disabled neurodiverse person needing to calculate exactly how to use the right language to the person at the right layer of authority when saying 'ouch that ableist exclusion hurt, I'm sorry my protests of pain are uncomfortable for others to hear, please don't kick me off the team for it'"

I'm sorry, I didn't mean that as a contest! I just meant that as a fellow survivor of what the popular view wants to pretend is over, who's pretty grim about what happens when it's convenient for the suit-wearing interview class to throw categories of marginalized people under their own bus...

Biiiiiiig hugs. As someone who lost both too many people and my own health because someone's right to party unmasked in the big city trumped our right to live, breathe, and exist in society... so many hugs.

I'd li,e to note that the 2024 spike is higher than OG Omicron but nobody even mentioned the existence of COVID in mainstream media at that point.

And this thread is hella relevant here too. I'm never going to forget how happy the Biden administration's main talking heads were that "only people with preexisting conditions are expected to die now." Way to throw the entire disabled community under the bus. bsky.app/profile/guin...

🧵One thing I’ll always remember from when mask mandates were dropped is how gleefully my colleagues at the time rushed back to normal.

I begged them to consider what it meant for high risk folks like me.

“Everyone has to take personal responsibility,” said my boss. (1/3)

Mine lost me at the Tele town hall where she was bragging about her bipartisan bill to bipartisanly rename President's Day with a bipartisan graphically designed bipartisan ad campaign, but it took her less than 60 seconds to throw trans folks under the bus.

Nope. She's never getting another vote.

"But you have to vote for the approved weasel the committee picked, there's no other option" is just as untrue as "but you have to use AI, we spent so much money and nobody's buying it so we have to shove it in there with no off switch, you're not allowed to say no."

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One of my claims to infamy is when I pointed out to a DNC staffer online that if I couldn't tell the functional difference between my spineless weasel of a Democratic rep and a Republican, I was going to vote for anyone who wasn't the current rep just to get her out of the way. Cue meltdown. Whee.

Oh that looks fantastic! 😍 om nom nom!

Seriously! (Saw another author get a one-star review along the lines of "gay communist wish fulfilment" and I was like "dear reviewer, you don't understand, that is not a turnoff, that is a 'give me more like this now please' advertisement")

Today I'm making Turkish Delight. I'm making a coconut one to celebrate @lynnstrong.bsky.social 's upcoming #cozyfantasy Chai and Charmcraft. So far it seems to be working, but I'm crossing my fingers as it cools. I don't know if I got the consistency right, but it at least tastes good!

Tastes good is always goal number 1! And if it sets up enough to pick up with fingers, you have close enough to Turkish Delight; if it doesn't set up you have some species of delicious sauce to apply to something like shortbread? :D (Let me know how it turns out!)