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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 1h

The four very distinct smells of my daily commute (biking): - the reek from yeast factory 🤢 -the exhaust from the adjacent motorway 😷 - the rot from the recycling station 😵‍💫 - the absolute divinity from the chocolate factory 🤤

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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 1h

October is here, pumpkins are near, and it's time for some chills, thrills, and kills! You can snag 93 books for a nice $69 dollars to celebrate the spookiest of seasons. One of which is The Backwards Knight, so do not miss out! itch.io/b/3904/chill... #BookSky

CHILLS, THRILLS, & KILLS graphic with an orange background with the silhouette of creepy trees, a pumpkin, and a large moon. The text details information about the sale and reads:
96 books for $69
A very big and spooky bundle of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year's Hallowe'en Season!
hosted by Indie Book Spotlight.

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A.J. Calvin @ajcalvin.bsky.social · 2h

It's October - and there's a great lineup of new releases coming this month! You can view the full post here: ajcalvin.net/the-indie-au... (There are a lot of amazing titles! I'll tag the authors in the comments.) #booksky #newreleases #indiebooks #comingsoon

The Indie Author Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror New Release List: October 2026
Promo image features:
Her Bloody Vengeance by NC Scrimgeour
Children of Wrath by Cheyenne Brammah
The Ruin of Rage and Reckonings by Steven Pannett
Forest of Stone by Emma L Adams

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 3h

🎃 TBR Thursday 🎃 Happy 1st of October! Spooktober is officially here. What spooky, moody, eerie books are you reading this month? May I suggest a few of mine? (keep your eyes peeled for a spooktober sale coming this month 👀 ) 👻 www.karenlykkebo.com/shortstory 📚💙

Promo picture with a foggy dead tree in the background. Cover of Dirt You Shall Become to the right (shovel and faded peony).
Text in purple and orange boxes: Garden themed horror, five short stories, creeping dread to comedy, based on true events.

Promo picture with a foggy dead tree in the background. Cover of Now and the Hour of Death to the left (skull lifting finger to silence you).
Text in purple and orange boxes: five short stories, modern gothic dystopian, themed around death, includes a sapphic romance.

Promo picture with a foggy dead tree in the background. Cover of Vätter Child to the right (deer skull in dark forest).
Text in purple and orange boxes: nordic folk horror, novelette sized, 'eat the patriarchy', features in this stunning anthology (arrow points to orange cover of Together is a Distant star)

Promo picture with a foggy dead tree in the background. Cover of Drowned Hearts (hands reaching to a surface)
Text in purple and orange boxes: a novelette, folklore vibes, kids out of their depth, eldritch horror.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 20h

yesyes it's not one line but you get the gist right?

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 28/09/2026

It's the last few days of Sapphic September 💜 Here's a personal recommendation. If you read and loved @nataliekelda.bsky.social 's Reflections of Lilje Damselfly, I can almost guarantee you'll adore my Bear My Heart - and vice versa! Both are soft and slow, nature-driven, sweet romances 💚 💙📚

Cover of Reflections of Lilje Damselfly and Bear My Heart.
Text with arrow to Lilje "if you loved this" text with arroa to Bear "you'll adore this"

Text/tropes for Lilje: Chronically ill waternymph, edwardian spa, soft lush prose. Nature as a main theme. Text/tropes to Bear: A lonely were-bear, deep forest vibes, a celebration of silence.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 29/09/2026

💜 One Line Share 💜 "You take up every part of my mind and my senses. It burns hotter than Fire and is stronger than the foundations of Earth. And I just can't get enough." 🍃✨ www.karenlykkebo.com/thepalaceofwin… #booksky

Cover of The Palace of Winds, book 1-3. cover of Winds of Destruction. Black haired girl in swirl of wind, holding a spear. Cover of Winds of Desolation. Black haired girl, blue cloak billowing in wind. Standing on a cliff holding a green orb in her hand. Cover of Winds of Determination. Black haired girl in a forest surrounded by green swirls, a flame and water.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 20h

#WIPSnips "I toss the shovel to the dirt, and it penetrates deep, then stands tall. A watchful guardian as I commit crimes under the shade of the cherry tree." - Dirt You Shall Become 🤎🪱

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Mehsi-Hime @mehsi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

😍Are you ready? It is the end of the month and on my blog I am sharing a new Community Posts I adored in... post with today all the fabulously fun posts by bloggers in September!♥️ #BookBloggers #Blogging #BookSky📚💙 twirlingbookprincess.com/2026/09/comm...

Pink and gold banner with the text Community Posts I Adored which is hosted on Twirling Book Princess

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 21h

🤍 estranged husbands 💪 close brothers x2 🗡️ an mc who is 100% done 🐺 a love interest ready to grovel 🏫 a haunted, gothic school 🔍 buried secrets ❄️ snowy setting 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/aBMB 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-strange-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... [ #booksky ]

Ebook cover for The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden; cover shows a shadow of a grey wolf above a forest that's dark green and black and foggy. Text is gold and greyish-white.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 21h

I wanted to do stuff this evening but unfortunately there's a random David Attenborough documentary in tv so I'm gonna learn about this obscure pre-historic animal. I don't make the rules 🤷‍♀️

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 30/09/2026

📢 COVER REVEAL Oct 23rd ! 📢 Wanna help me spread the word? Sign up to be part of the cover reveal: 👉 forms.gle/S9pTseRrc9TRUeD4A 💙📚

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 30/09/2026

I have so little energy for anything today. Takes everything to keep smiling for each patient.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 29/09/2026

I find it very unfair that getting up before 6am, working 9 hrs, biking for 1hr, doing minimal chores at home, makes me too tired to do anything useful in the 1.5hr of “free time” I’ve got before I crash in bed.

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Stasia Roze 📚 Book Reviewer @stasiaroze.satan.social · 29/09/2026

Although only a short story, West encompasses everything that makes her writing top-tier. The scene-setting and the atmosphere-building are incredible. You can feel your gut tightening with tension as you read; the hairs on the back of your neck rise with each page turn. Out 5th Oct #booksky

Tropes; home alone, ghosts, cornfields, short story, horror

Cover: where dead leaves lie by Amelie west

Quote: the agent gave a reassuring smile. "There is no one about for miles. You'll find it very peaceful here."

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 26/09/2026

Book 1 of this cozy sapphic series is already out. Book 2 is scheduled for January. Interlinked in the same universe, but standalone stories happening many years apart. First, a lonely werebear finding love. Then, a wolf on the run finding a home. Soft, still, sweet stories to warm you 💙

Trope map for Bear My Heart - a cozy sapphic novella. Ebook cover in green with the outline of a bear in the middle with mountains and a moon within the body.
Text: "spice level: handholding (barely), neurodivergent MC's, a magical mountain, overcoming grief, sapphic romance, a bear-shifter, hermit-vibes deep in the forest, nose-booping, old dying gods.

Moodboard for Bear My Heart
Six picutres: top left, bear sleeping. Top right: fall forest with mist. Small middle pictures: hands holding ox-eye daisies, fingertips touching. Bottom left: starry sky and mountain silhouette. Bottom right: wooden mountain hut in forest.

Trope map for Wolf Woman Wilderling. A cozy sapphic romance. Cover obscured by brown blobs.
Texet from top left and clockwise: Spice level: kissing, fade-to-black, sapphic romance, a werewolf who's human by day, wolf by night, set high north with midnight sun and polar nights, a story of finding home, overcoming guilt, genuinely kind people, inspired by scandinavian folklore and tradition.

Moodboard for wolf woman wilderling. Six pictures. Top row: sunset, hands handling dried herbs over a mortar, hand holding around a cane. Bottom row: wolf in snow, two people sitting by a lake, northern lights over a snowy mountain.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 29/09/2026

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 29/09/2026

Happy Tuesday 🍂✨ I’m some sort of a person today. What are you?

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 28/09/2026

Sitting with a heating cushion on my lower back and abdomen and an herbal tea to calm inflammation and ache while watching a documentary about endometriosis is just ... heartbreaking.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 28/09/2026

There's a documentary in tv tonight about endometriosis and current/newest knowledge about it and you better believe I am sat and ready to take notes!

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 28/09/2026

Today's successful fail of "I'll take it chill on the bike ride home" was sponsored by a soft but steady back wind and Foo Fighters' greatest hits

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Vintage Penny Farthing Bike Race Footage

Alt: Vintage Penny Farthing Bike Race Footage

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 28/09/2026

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 28/09/2026

Such a Monday today 🫠 But what’s fucking nice? In just 4 weeks I’ll change my schedule to then have Monday’s OFF. Kids - ✨ I cannot wait ✨

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 28/09/2026

Starting the week with 5 shitty, interrupted hours of sleep, lets goooo 🫠

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 24/09/2026

🤎🪱 DIRT YOU SHALL BECOME 🪱🤎 5 spooky short stories from one avid gardener to you 🌿 4 with slightly obsessive behavior 💀 3 with evil garden creatures 🐸 2 based on true stories 👀 1 will be your favorite ... Which one?? --> www.karenlykkebo.com/dirtyoushallbecome

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 27/09/2026

I've been doing so much this weekend but it's all just been prepping of stuff for next month so it feels like I've done nothing because I can't see any fruit of all my labor.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 27/09/2026

The fact that it’ll be October this coming week feels like lies.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 27/09/2026

I'd kinda planned to go on a run today as well, but time slipped away, garden got busy, and now it'll just be a short little yoga session instead.

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Monica @wallabylion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is exactly what I'm looking for! Off to expand my TBR!

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 27/09/2026

Did a bit of fall prepping in the garden. Ahsoka helped. She’s the best helper!

Sunflower seeds and herb marigolds on a table to dry. Cat sleeping in the sun next to it

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 27/09/2026

💜🌟 Sapphic September Sunday Spotlight 🌟💜 Reflections of Lilje Damselfly by @nataliekelda.bsky.social . A soft and emotional read about chronic illness, personal sacrifices, change, and sweet sapphic romance <3 www.karenlykkebo.com/post/reflectio… 📚💙

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Reflections of Lilje Damselfly (2025)

A stunning, emotional, and real tale of change, disability, sacrifice, and love.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 27/09/2026

It cleared to an absolutely stunning blue sky, crisp wind, and warm sun so the 117 things I was supposed to prep on my computer are now on hold for some garden work 🖤🍂

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 27/09/2026

Bf, with a sore throat, cough, and all the bad germs I had last week: 🫠🫠🫠🫠 Me, finally over my cold and on the ovulation high :

Sarah’s scribbles comic pan: intense girl yelling “punch the sun” , Sarah looking scared saying “please go away you’re scarin me”

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 26/09/2026

I spent so much of today just trying to schedule out some promo stuff for next month, in the back of my mind knowing it won’t really make a difference, and I’m just … 🤡

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 26/09/2026

Thinking I want to try to ensnare some arc readers for book 2, but honestly sales/readers have not been easy to find for book 1. Is it crazy to offer both with an ARC sign up?

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Ellie Lieberman @ellielieberman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last day of sales!!!

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 25/09/2026

📢 COVER REVEAL COMING NEXT MONTH 📢 Wanna help?? Finally did a little sign up sheet. Wanna help share the cover of my soon-to-come cozy sapphic romance novel? Hit the link, fill the info, be punk af 😎 👉 forms.gle/YxePD8Dp2wAU...

Promo of Daughters of Divinity series. Cozy sapphic novellas. WIP Updates.
Big cover of Wolf, Woman, Wilderling. Cover art obscured "stay tuned for cover reveal". Bright blue bubbles on the right side. Text: Werewold, fjords and nordic scenery, physical disability, genuinely kind people, midsummer dance, only one bed. A story of finding home.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 26/09/2026

I was supposed to send out my newsletter this weekend but I don't think it's gonna happen. dammit

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🧙 wild witches 🐦‍⬛ a crow (or two) 🔮 portal fantasy 🐈‍⬛ a cat who wanders in 👨‍❤️‍👨 true love 🗡️ revenge 👑 evil faeries 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... [ #booksky ]

Cover for ‘Enlil and Aris: The Complete Collection by Rebecca Crunden’. Cover is purple, yellow and orange with white font. Image shows two silhouettes of men with a crow above them, the sun behind.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 26/09/2026

My almost daily evening dilemma: I'm much more efficient and actually get crap done if I sit in my little office, but bf and cats are all sitting in the living room.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 26/09/2026

A Saturday Snippet because why not. Was re-reading a bit of Dirt You Shall Become for other reasons, and this just made me laugh. It's a real scene. Me, one October morning 2 years ago when the fcking deer had eaten my kale. Now inspiration for slightly obsessive MC in My Heart is a Tulip 🦌💀

“My mistake was thinking I was smarter than them. Or perhaps assuming that deer in general were stupid. Or maybe the cleansing ritual I found described on anti-deer forums actually opened the gates to hell. Whichever, our fight only intensified.
Despite my close watch, they got to the kale before I did. The fuckers had waited for it grow, just like me, and the morning I came out to pick it, the plastic net had been torn apart and the kale picked clean. Even worse, they hadn’t eaten it up.
I stood in the chill of a late October-morning, staring in disbelief at the kale scattered across my lawn. Half-chewed, then spat out. Were the deer just mocking me? Even with the clumps of bloodied dog fur and garlic scattered throughout the hedge, they’d come. Perhaps it wasn’t even deer. Perhaps it was some weird ghoul. Or demon.
My worst fucking nightmare.”

Excerpt From
Dirt You Shall Become: Short Horrors from the Garden
Karen Lykkebo
This material may be protected by copyright.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 26/09/2026

One day, I'll stop making lists of all the things I could'a-would'a-should'a and actually just go do the things I could, would, and should, and I swear that day it's all over for you guys

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Star Wars: Emperor Palpatine's Unlimited Power

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 26/09/2026

We’ve had a terrible mushroom season so far, but finally the first little guys are starting to pop up 🍄

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 26/09/2026

I really want to go on a walk but it keeps raining

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 26/09/2026

🌼 Arts & Crafts 🌼 Handmade jewelry - Ships internationally! A set of cute book earrings with your spooky fall vibes 🖤🎃 www.karenlykkebo.com/product-page/t…

black book earrings with orange maple leaves and ghosts on the front.

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