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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are just 10 tickets left for the event this Wednesday so if you were thinking of grabbing a spot, now is a good time!! 👀✨️🕯

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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️ @ceciliabennett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm itching to do something bold and unapologetically creative, so I'm tempted to found a publisher to give authors a space for manuscripts 'big' publishers consider too out-there, uncategorisable, or otherwise unpalatable. What sort of books would people like to write or see? Do I do it??

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David (W) Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm absolutely delighted to announce that @headlinebooks.bsky.social have acquired my new book A TRAITOR'S CALL in a two-book deal! Jamie Tulloch and the Legends team return in May 2027, tackling a threat much closer to home... cc @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @harryillingworth.bsky.social

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Are you a medium interested in branching out into real estate to diversify your income? (In this economy!) Well, read this handy chapter via @talesfrombetween.bsky.social for some top tips for selling tricky haunted houses! 👀✨️👻 talesfrombetween.com/2026/10/01/t...

Three steps to sell a haunted house by Lyndsey Croal
So many modern houses are dull and soulless.
If a house is hanged, it's most likely old and that means it has character and flair.
Talesfrombetween.com

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think he's glad I'm home from London ✨️🐾

Giant Pippin lying stretched out on my lap

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Tales From Between @talesfrombetween.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New story by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social is up at talesfrombetween.com right now!

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One hour in and we're closing in on the first $1,000! Yay!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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Apex Magazine 2027

An award-winning digital literary journal of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Z.K.A. (she/her) @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PRE-ORDER link is live! THESE HOLLOW BODIES, a novella A cosmic horror that explores identity, ceramics, and murder cults!

THESE HOLLOW BODIES, a novella, by Z.K. Abraham cover, illustrated black woman, underwater, choking on light coming out of mouth and eyes. "A sharp, compelling read." - Tiffany Morris

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Never watched The Traitors, so tonight will be my first foray 👀✨️ I feel as far behind as I did when I started Taskmaster last year, but in my defence I've now watched like fifteen series of that, soo...🙈

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy October! 🎃 Celebrating with a surprise new ghostly flash with @talesfrombetween.bsky.social ! Three steps to sell a haunted house: Chapter One - an income diversification guide for mediums... 👀👻✨️ Enjoyed the 3-paragraph challenge! Read it here: talesfrombetween.com/2026/10/01/t...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Announcing a new, occasional journal - PALE GREY IDOL. I hope you'll come along with us on this new venture. Info: palegreyidol.ca

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tickets are going fast!! This is going to be such a fun evening next week, Edinburgh horror folks, come join us 👀✨️👻 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1999368749...

Haunted and Hunted an evening of ghosts
Eventbrite page, tickets going fast!

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh yay, one of the new flash fiction stories accepted (record time 😅)!

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please pray to the insomnia gods for me tonight, sleep has been an elusive friend...as the fitness watch likes to aggressively tell me (off to tire myself out with a swim 😅🙈)

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Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'It’s very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones.' My Dead Husband Still Wants the Last Word by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @electricliterature.com #fiction #flashfiction #writingcommunity electricliterature.com/the-bone-her...

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My Dead Husband Still Wants the Last Word - Electric Literature

"The Bone Hermit," flash fiction by Lyndsey Croal

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Highly recommend sense-checking your weird story ideas with your author pals because they will almost always help you make it weirder 👁️

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Felt I needed a creative outlet that wasn't quite as high stakes as writing, so decided I wanted to learn and practice more arty things this year! I've never really seen myself as an artist, but I've found learning and growing skills so therapeutic and calming 💙 Here are a few recent wee bits ✨️🖌

Lino art and watercolour paintings including: Jellyfish relief printing, owl relief printing, mushrooms lino, watercolour house scene, lighthouse lino print, mushroom watercolour, octopus watercolour, luna moth wwatercolour, whale lino print, and a mini beach bird scene using seaglass and ceramics

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last weekend: ran a 10k, felt great, recovering well This weekend: went to a birthday party, injured myself doing the limbo 😂💁‍♀️

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh hey, my rainbow statue traffic cone photo made it on BBC news 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌈 (my Mum made me send it 😂) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A well placed rainbow soars over Calton Hill at the end of Princes Street, making it look like this statue has superpowers Sent in by Lyndsey Croal

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Edits on a commissioned short, and two new flash fiction stories submitted today! Finally getting my short fiction writing brain back after a longgg break of working on novel stuff 😅 It's a good itch to scratch ✨

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Widows Bay Tv Show

ALT: Widows Bay Tv Show

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

October has snuck up on me! But I'm really looking forward to a few fun events to mark my favourite season! ✨🖤 lyndseycroal.co.uk/about/events...

7th October: HAUNTED AND HUNTED: An evening of ghosts - Blackwell’s of Edinburgh, 6.30-9pm
With The International Ghost Society, Rhiannon Grist, MK Hardy, Alex Howard and Claire Schultz

9th-11th October: FANTASY CON - Glasgow
Authentic Scottish representation in SFFH
Horror Reading Group 2
Cursed objects, cursed people

22nd October: University of Edinburgh - GREEN LIBRARIES WEEK - Talk
Visions of change: the role of fiction and storytelling in shaping climate narratives

26th October: GALAWE’EN - The Wedale Bookshop, Stow
Dark Tales: Curses, Rituals and Sinister Secrets - with MK Hardy and Amy Jane Stewart

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Teaching myself watercolour adventures, a Luna Moth with a wee lunar lantern 🌝🐛

Small watercolour showing a luna moth carrying a lantern augh a moon inside

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Look what beauty arrived today @mkhardywrites.com ! Can't wait to read! 🌊✨️👀💙

The Hainting of Avis Lovelock by MK Hardy

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My second published story of the year with @electricliterature.com , and definitely one of my favourite flashes I've written! If you enjoy dark tales about bones and the sea, then check it out ✨️💙💀🦀 First line below, and free to read here: electricliterature.com/the-bone-her...

The Bone Hermit by Lyndsey Croal
It's very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Very much looking forward to joining the UK Ghost Story Festival in February alongside fantastic authors - I'll be running a workshop on writing dark folklore (which will include hauntings, harbingers, omens, and strange creatures)! 🖤👀 Tickets and info all here: www.ticketsource.com/ukghoststory...

Online Festrival
5th-7th Feb 2027
Tiffani Angus
Leon Craig
Lyndsey Croal
Gretchen Felker-Mart8in
Kaja Franck
John Fraser
Deborah Hyde
Eric LaRocca
Brenda Le Torre
Andrea Stewart
Francine Toon

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ran 10k, got the t-shirt ✅️ Second race, surprisingly hilly again, but 6 mins faster 💪

Me standing by a women's 10k sign outside Murray field stadium

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Of course my most popular post on here is about a weird wee fish, and not my weird wee stories 😂💁‍♀️🌊 Note to self: write more weird wee fish stories 🐟 I did just read a folk tale about the King of the Fish thwarting the Devil so...

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

While I'm posting about weird sea creatures, can I interest you in a flash fiction about a hermit crab working its way up a skeleton... 👀💀🦀 electricliterature.com/the-bone-her...

It’s very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones. At first it was disconcerting, to see him skittering along the beach, parading your salt-bleached toes outside our cottage. Sometimes he stops, right at the edge of the garden, and folds himself up into the crook of your remains, staring straight at the gate, watching me.

My dead husband still wants the last word
The Bone Hermit flash fiction by Lyndsey Croal
Picture of a shell nestled in a skull

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"It’s very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones."... ICYMI, I wrote a story about a woman being haunted by a hermit crab residing in her dead husband's skeleton... A quick read, and free via @electricliterature.com: electricliterature.com/the-bone-her... 💀🦀✨

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My Dead Husband Still Wants the Last Word - Electric Literature

"The Bone Hermit," flash fiction by Lyndsey Croal

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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My Dead Husband Still Wants the Last Word - Electric Literature

"The Bone Hermit," flash fiction by Lyndsey Croal

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New favourite weird sea creature just dropped - red lipped batfish 👁👄👁 Came across a video and had to look them up immediately! They also have teeny wee legs to walk across the sea floor 🌊

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Omar Kooheji 🍉 @ohmz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Life is a bit of a roller coaster for us right now, lots going on which is raising our stress levels, one shining light on the horizon is that my wife’s book is coming out in a month, and I’m really excited that other people are going to get to experience it.

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The Void Dragon

'Truly enchanting' Trudi Canavan on The Outcast Mage 'Both classic and utterly original, this is heartfelt fantasy from a wonderful new voice' Tasha Suri ...

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 17/09/2026

It's ONE WEEK to go before The Shape of Monsters is out in print! I am so amped for readers to meet Aleks, Vai and *evil grin* my sweet innocent precious Ilea. Come join @heatherpalmer.bsky.social and me at Blackwell's in Edinburgh at 7pm on Thursday the 24th September!

Cl Hellisen: The Shape of Monsters in conversation with Annabel Campbell (sadly she can't make this,but the wonderful Heather Palmer is taking her seat)
Thursday 24th September, 7pm

And a picture of me in a stripy top, with the red and dark purple cover of the Shape of Monsters with its creepy stag head

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ah I got an email through my contact form that isn't AI, this is honestly so lovely to hear, like I think that might be a first 😱🌊 Made my day!!

Email: Hello, just wanted to tell you how much I loved your story in the commuter. I am a soft sell on anything with bones and aea creatures and grief, but you did am extra good job and I hope you are proud of it. ;)

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wondering if I should send this unhinged alternate pitch for my next book to my agents: He's a 10, but at night he peels off all his skin and breathes plague upon the land 💀

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 16/09/2026

This one is darrrrrk, friendos, but with a glimmer of -- perhaps not hope. Something subtler and more painful for it

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New story out today! A woman is haunted by a hermit crab who takes up residence in her dead husband's bones, gradually moving up his skeleton...out now, with @electricliterature.com !! 🦀🌊💀 Free to read here: electricliterature.com/the-bone-her...

The Bone Hermit
It’s very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones. At first it was disconcerting, to see him skittering along the beach, parading your salt-bleached toes outside our cottage. Sometimes he stops, right at the edge of the garden, and folds himself up into the crook of your remains, staring straight at the gate, watching me.

I thought I’d done a better job at hiding your body. I thought the sand and sea would wash your bones clean and sweep them away. But the sea, it seems, is resourceful. And now this tricksy little creature has come back to haunt me. Maybe he is you, reincarnated, and this is your final joke. You always did tell me you’d get the last laugh.

My dead husband still wants the last word - The Bone Hermit flash fiction by Lyndsey Croal

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#Glasgow Haverin is nearly here! 'Mon and celebrate 40 years of the GSFWC with our book launch on 21st October at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street. Grab yourself new stories by Christopher Caldwell, E.M. Faulds, Neil Williamson, Eliza Chan -- and maybe some homemade tablet too! #Haverin #GSFWC40

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Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC today.

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sometimes it's a push head against the wall kind of a day

Pippin lying on sofa with head against the wall

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To the woman who tried to high-five me on my run today: sorry at how oblivious I was to think you were waving, and that we must know each other, and for the five seconds stop of a "hey, how's it going" before realising we didn't know each other, and then for running away, leaving you hanging

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fairies, witches, elves & dragons, you say? If you fancy learning how to avoid the worst curses when learning how to write SFF/H, check out the Locus-recommended and BSFA/BFA award-finalist Spec Fic for Newbies writing-guide series! Find TOCs and purchasing options here: linktr.ee/specficforne...

The image is a still of the 3 fairy godmothers from Sleeping Beauty. Over each fairy's face is the corresponding Spec Fic for Newbies book cover (one red, one blue, one green)

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