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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Last chance to grab LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN for FREE! 🔗below to claim~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Day four of FREE LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN Don’t be late for the winter ball…I’ve grabbed Raven’s dance card for you 🔗below to claim~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

A dance card:
Roman Edevane ball
Lakegrave School
1902

Order of dances:
(Top half scribbled out)
Bottom half
1. Roman
2. Esme
3. Esme
4. Esme
5. Esme
6. Esme

Cover of LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Number 1 in LGBTQ+ Horror Fiction Number 2 in Low Fantasy Number 2 in Dark Fantasy Horror Thank you so so much! 🔗below to claim~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

Lakegrave school for young women in the bestseller charts on the 'zon

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Day two of free LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN! To give you an idea of the insides, here’s a selection of pins from my pinterest board 🔗below to claim~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Today until Tuesday 23rd of Sep LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN is FREE to grab! Read this historical dark academia sapphic filled horror with ghosts and secrets around every corner 🔗below to claim~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

Ebook of LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN - free on the 'zon

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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Yolanda Sfetsos @yolandasfetsos.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Happy Release Day!!

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

It's September 9th and the train to Lakegrave is waiting for you... OUT NOW - LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN, a sapphic dark academia horror with sinister secrets and ghosts haunting the halls You're going to be late for your first day, better hurry 🔗below~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN OUT NOW!

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

After going back and forth on it for a while, I’ve decided to make bsky an updates only platform Being active across many accounts is too much for my physical and mental health so if you’d like regular posts from me, I’m on Insta 📸 under the same @ (writerlcarter)

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a person is sitting in front of a curtain and says i want to make an announcement .

Alt: a person is sitting in front of a curtain and says i want to make an announcement .

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Cat Voleur @catvoleur.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

SURPRISE COVER REVEAL!!! I was going to wait until later in the month but my con schedule has ended up more hectic than anticipated and I just HAVE to show this off. Thank you to @uglybyproxy.bsky.social for the art and thank you to @writerlcarter.bsky.social for sponsoring 🖤

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN, coming September 9th, preorder now! 🔗below~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

A raven sitting on a copy of LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN - coming sep 9th

LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN sitting in front of a flock of ravens

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The Edevane family are lovers of books but maybe not as much as Esme Vill is... While the library at The Manor House in Castle Combe was small, it's a great glimpse into the huge library in Lakegrave School Can't wait for you to see it on September 9th.... 🔗below~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

"You will never see an Edevane lost in a library."

Quote from LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN

Picture of mini library in the manor house at castle combe

Another angle of the mini library in the manor house at castle combe (shows plush chairs and fireplace)

Me holding a copy of LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN outside of the manor house in castle combe

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Hello~! It's been quite a while as I've been sick (and still am really) but I have a backlog of LAKEGRAVE promo still to come Here are some of my fav quotes, read the rest 9/9 Map by @yourdadsapotato.bsky.social Artwork by @heavenlyystar.bsky.social 🔗below to preorder~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

A quote board
'Welcome,' she says, 'to Lakegrave.'
With a raven and a glimpse of the map of Lakegrave School

Quote board:
'And even with everything going on, you're allowed to have feelings and allowed to have someone. You want each other, so have each other.' She smirks. 'It really is quite simple.'

With artwork of Raven and Esme and books and violin

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

If you like... Then you may like...LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN - COMING 9/9 🔗below to preorder~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

if you like...
queer characters
ghost stories
dark academia
historical fiction
found family
dark secrets
horror

then you may like...
LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN COMING 9TH SEPTEMBER

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The girl who suspects something is wrong and wants to investigate... The girl who agrees to join because she’s sweet on her... Discover the rest of their love story in... Art by @/nikespera.png 🔗below to preorder~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Some quotes from LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN - coming 9/9 🖤 Promo by @bymorganwright.bsky.social 🔗below to preorder~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

As we're now only two months away from the release of LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN, here's a little teaser and hint to the three mcs! Art by @amdavis.bsky.social 🔗below to preorder~💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

Raven Edevane - "Violin is my specialty but music is my heart!

Rowan Edevane - "Her tone is when like Rowan's when she is talking about films."

Esme Vill - "Words on pages are usually better than words spoken aloud by others."

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat ! It’s #pridedisabilitymonth so I’m celebrating with some special posts about my upcoming book 🌈 bsky.app/profile/writ...

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Time stopped but the shadows kept moving. For death exists outside of clocks. There were whispers but no words. Loneliness in a world of thousands. Forever moving without the imprint of feet. But a mirror of themselves, dancing for now and always. #HorrorWritersChat

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

It’s all over the place Gothic, supernatural, hauntings, and more to come! #HorrorWritersChat

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I’ve gone both ways (this answer could be used for multiple questions 😂) I do love a slow burn though - especially with death ☠️ #HorrorWritersChat

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Hello hello again! I’m Lauren and write queer (queen) horror and i should have been born when dinosaurs roamed the earth so I could make fun of trex arms #HorrorWritersChat

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

It's #pridedisabilitymonth ! LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN is my first (published) book featuring a disabled queer character (based off my own disability) She is the first of many yet to come 🏳️‍🌈 🔗below~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

A messy moodboard for LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN
Highlights are:
- Many many wlw
- A raven
- Comps like A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee and All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters
- A water fountain
- A melting candle in a hand
- A violin
- And some sapphic ish quotes from other books

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

#WIPSnips ~ damage Another diary entry... #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts (I know it's no longer the first but it probably is somewhere in the world)

He stayed the night.
Thankfully not in my room.
I couldn’t bring myself to write anymore the previous night. I don’t want my words to be washed away by my own self. Tears on a page does more damage to my story than all else.
He stayed for tea, lunch, tea again, and dinner.
During that time, he toured the Manor. Toured myself again. Several times. His wandered eyes unable to control themselves. He went back to my parent’s room a number of times. And to my room even more. Looking at my drawers every time he thought no one else was observing him.
It destroyed me to think that soon he could do what he wanted. Go where he wanted. Touch what he wanted.

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

You've seen them before but here they are again with their beautiful backgrounds! Raven, Esme, and Rowan from LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN, coming 9/9/2025 Artwork by @amdavis.bsky.social 🔗below~💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

Raven Edevane from LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN

Esme Vill from LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN

Rowan Edevane from LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

#WIPSnips ~ TRUTH Another diary entry from a aro/ace queen (had to pull a gay part for the last day of pride) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

He has returned.
He unfortunately has not died since last I wrote.
I will not bore these pages with a repeated story, which is what I will write if I write mostly the truth of this visit.
More courting. More chatter. More wandering eyes on his part. My eyes have never wandered. Not on any man, woman, or other.
I simply do not understand lust or love.

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"Don't you sleep?" He stopped writing for a moment. "We have trouble with it, as you can imagine" "I can." @writerlcarter.bsky.social Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/ahauntingmostcold eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/ahauntingmostcold

kithbooks.com

kith in print

It was in the winter of 1876 that I arrived at Dreadwood Estate. Thus begins Lauren Carter’s dark and affirming tale of kinship and guilt. Sabrina Crowvin is newly orphaned and staring down adulthood ...

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Sabrina Crowvin is newly orphaned and staring down adulthood when she arrives on the doorstep of two distant cousins she’s never known. Over the course of one snowstorm Sabrina will learn the secrets of Dreadwood and find solace in the home that she needs. @writerlcarter.bsky.social

A Haunting Most Cold
Lauren Carter

cover:
an ornate peak roofed Mansion laden in snow and icicles is rendered in shades of teal. in the central upper window, two figures can be seen side by side, looking out.

text:
A Haunting Most Cold is the perfect chilling read for when you're curled up by the fire. Equal parts cozy and unsettling, Carter has supplied us with a gripping read that you won't be able to put down.

Cat Voleur
author of Revenge Arc

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO THE OFF-SEASON BY @jodierobins.bsky.social‬ Available worldwide. Order from our bookshop or your favourite retailer 🖤 💙 www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/theo...

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Another great #HorrorWritersChat ! My next book, LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN, comes out this Sep 9th! 🔗below to preorder the ebook!

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Gonna go with a character who’s a boss… They would destroy the earth through the sea 🌊 #HorrorWritersChat

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Oooh good question… At a theme park - as I’m terrified of rollercoasters and final destination 3 doesn’t help that fact ☠️ #HorrorWritersChat

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I make it up most of the time 😂 In my current WIP, the MCs are both journalists but in different fields - and it comes it handy to the plot! #HorrorWritersChat

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Hey! It’s been a long while but I’m Lauren and I write queer horror! And during the day I’m a librarian 📚 #HorrorWritersChat

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

happy birthday! (go read this if you haven't, you're missing out!)

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A copy of LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN next to the inspiration for said school (You can find more pics on my insta) You can preorder the ebook now! (Paperback and hardback will be available on release date- 9th Sep!) 🔗below~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚

Copy of LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN on a bench on the grounds of The Manor House

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

#WIPSnips ~today is theme "Topic" is sorta kinda close to theme and this intro to this side character is some of my favs #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Athena Saxon was invisible.
Or at least she tried to be.
It wasn’t exactly easy in her tiny shop. There wasn’t anywhere to hide. Even behind the till didn’t hide her fully. The desk was low for her appropriate height despite the fact she wore heels and towered over it most days. And with dozens of pairs, she couldn’t exactly not wear heels. That would be a waste.
The reason for such a feeling was she felt like it had been an awful long time since she was alone. Not that she didn’t want the company of her friends from time to time but not only had she seen and spoken to them everyday, it had been multiple times a day for weeks now! She barely had enough conversation topics to cover their interactions now. She ended up staying silent instead, nodding as if she was keeping up.
Instead of looking forward to seeing them coming through the door, she dreaded the bell going. Could she not just have one day of peace? Could she not just read the latest book she had checked out? Vincent’s romance section was poor but improving with the suggestions she gave him.

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Quick reminder you can grab the e-arc of LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN right now! Here's the book trailer to give you an idea of the sapphic dark academia story... 🔗below~ 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky #writesky Book trailer by @createwtiffany.bsky.social

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I've got a lesbian vamp who isn't afraid to flirt or I've got a gay vamp who falls for a human who is already in love with another vamp Or I've got a family of vampires who are all bi and big fat liars Take your pick! #WritingPrompt

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Today's #WIPSnips ! It fits because she would like a refund of this man pls and thank u #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

I knew nothing of him. Only that he had money, not Cross money but money nonetheless. And that’s all I needed to know. Not whether he was kind or smart or warm.
I did not know what he knew of me but likely nothing. My looks were enough.
Caked in powder and other paint to hide my true face, I waited for him alongside my parents just outside our property. My corset tight and my heels uncomfortable.
He didn’t arrive until late past midday.
His carriage wasn’t as good as ours but his horses were better. I wondered if that was where his money was.
When he stepped out, he didn’t look at us first. He looked at the house.
And as he did that, I took him in.
I expected him to be a troll, a monster of some kind.
I’ve only known men like that, but, then again, I only really know my father.
But he was handsome, short groomed hair with a thick mustache. He stood tall yet he wasn’t much higher than myself. His back never hunched, his posture always stiff. His smile pearly and charming.
His eyes were another story.

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

You probably didn't notice but I took a lil 2 week break, which might be a mistake as I have a lot of LAKEGRAVE content to share... For this post, the lovely @sinclairamacabre.bsky.social did this beautiful artwork of Esme and Raven - so gorgeous! 🔗below to preorder the book 💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚🌈📚 #booksky

Esme and Raven from LAKEGRAVE SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN

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Lauren Carter {updates only} @writerlcarter.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Always lovely to see YOUR DARLING DEATH out in the wild!

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