Hel ✨ || Untwining... 🌀🪷

Hey hello hi I still don't have a job, but I love to read? I love to talk about books, discuss Craft, learn and grow together (sounds pretentious but it's truuuue)!

Let me care for your book!!
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#books
#AuthorSky
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#fantasy #scifi #horror

believe it or not, Chapter 1-7 just disappeared from my document
POOF gone
most curious 🙃
oh well I guess I can't go back and obsessively re-edit them now 👀

Kalaanë, my girl! 💜

Have y'all preordered this book already? You shooould! #BookSky

when you're reading your thing and you're like...
I think my readers will hate me for this 🫣
oops

Chapter 4 is also PERFECT
NO NOTES

ONWARDS!

I'm so good at this writing books thing today.

Long shot but I have an extra ticket for the 13 October London show of ionnalee / iamamiwhoami which I'd like to sell for like 25£ (I think it was ~28£ when I bought it)

Anyone wants it? ✨

yes and yes! I love lots of colours and sodas, but purple and Dr Pepper have special places in my heart.

okay the first 3 chapters are PERFECT AGAIN and I've got no business going back to them until January

deal?
deal. #OctUntwining

:(( 🩷

Choosing to read indie books is great, solid pat on the back material.

But choosing to read AND REVIEW indie books? You, my friend, are the stuff of legends.

A mockup of The First Sin by Cheyenne Brammah. The text on the right says, "The First Sin In the ancient interstellar Årdrakin Empire, an intrepid clan guard tries to regain his honor after being exiled for surviving a disastrous battle—all while ignoring signs he is the harbinger of the empire's apocalypse. The First Sin releases October 23, 2025! Preorder: https://ubl.akairondragon.ca/tfs Swag: https://ubl.akairondragon.ca/tfs-swag Find out more at akairondragon.ca!"

In the ancient interstellar Årdrakin Empire, an intrepid clan guard tries to regain his honor after being exiled for surviving a disastrous battle—all while ignoring signs he is the harbinger of the empire's apocalypse.

Preorder: ubl.akairondragon.ca/tfs
Swag: ubl.akairondragon.ca/tfs-swag

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maybe when I'm done with this round I will swear Really Hard I wouldn't go back and read them again? 🤔

someone hold me accountable!! 😭

although it really does depend on your definition of cheese...

it's not cheesecake btw there's no cheese in it
it's the...cake part of the cheesecake

I'm homebrewing the recipes I find online with such confidence as if I hadn't just screwed up a kilo fudge last week 😅

LISTEN even if it doesn't turn out how I want it, I always make something edible, so...that's already good!!

I'm making cheesecake btw. something...resembling a cheesecake... 👀

stop reading them, you say?

NEVER

I think I'm at the point with the first 2-3 chapters that I just cannot for the life of me tell anymore whether they're good or not 😅 my eyes and brain don't work suddenly, I read them so many times!! #OctUntwining

Long shot but I have an extra ticket for the 13 October London show of ionnalee / iamamiwhoami which I'd like to sell for like 25£ (I think it was ~28£ when I bought it)

Anyone wants it? ✨

Wanna see a man get squelched?

A Witch in Isenshire by Azalea Forrest. The book cover looks of old parchment, with art-nouveau type style font. Images of tarot cards, gears, crystals, and broomsticks surround an imagine of lineart of a city, with a background of a canyon/butte. Text surrounds the cover with arrows pointing to it: more friendship!, personal growth, coffee vibes, technomancy, closure, determination, automatons, living with loss, feisty grandma, cozy adventure.

A “google search” meme for A WITCH IN ISENSHIRE by Azalea Forrest. When searching for A Witch in Isenshire, suggestions show up: spell for forgetting, how to be cheerful no matter what, how to let go, daddy issues but with teacher, technomancy for idiots, how to stop being an asshole, ghibliesque your life in 10 steps.

The Witch of Emelle Series by Azalea Forrest. Book One: Witch in the Lighthouse. Book Two: A Witch in Isenshire. The background is a sunset at sea. An image of a male witch all in black holding a broomstick pole. An image of a redheaded female witch wearing a yellow dress, riding a broomstick. The covers feature broomsticks, crystals, potions, tarot cards… Order now, on Amazon. azaleaforrest.wordpress.com/books

A Witch in Isenshire is a bold cup of coffee made with determination, personal growth, and adventure. Maggie and Basil find closure in Emelle before being called to the tech-advanced city of Isenshire.

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Large white text on a starry black background. The text says: ARC READERS WANTED! SCIFI HORROR ROMANCE

White text on a starry background says: SCIFI HORROR M/M SECOND-CHANCE ROMANCE STAR TREK X EVENT HORIZON BRAINS X BRAWN AUTISTIC X PTSD COSMIC AND SENSORY HORRORS FIRST IN A SERIES

I'm looking for ARC readers/reviewers for METROPOLIS DOWN!

Coming 03 March 2026, METROPOLIS DOWN is an adult space horror novel about grief and trauma.

ARCs will go out in two batches: November for eARCs, and January for physical ones (limited to 10).

Link below!!

making some good ol' lecsó on this fine Sunday

The chronicles of Nerezia. A spread of six novella covers, with information on the right. It has pride flags for aro, ace, and non-binary, as well as "a found family queer road trip across a series of novellas".

A spread of four books with covers that all depict towers in different architectural styles with a colourful sky as the background (pale blue, orange, purple, and green respectively). Above is the title “Isandor, the City of Spires” and below are descriptions in beige and brown circles. Those read: large cast political fantasy with kindness at its core, messy and wholesome platonic relationships, unparalleled concentration of aros and aces, and four chunky books.

An image split in two, with the upper half dedicated to Baker Thief saying "an aro bigender baker, a corporate conspiracy, enemies-to-QPR" and the bottom half dedicated to Painted Flock, saying "a quoiromantic agender scientist, saving ols victims, team scientist to found family"

An image split in two section. The leftmost square has a green background matching the Common Bonds 1 cover placed in its centre, with arrows coming out of it, to different elements. It says “In this one we had… draconic scholar, all aspec demon hunting team, twin superhero/supervillain, aromantic perfumers”. The second half has an orange leafy background to match the Common Bonds 2 cover in its centre, and says “what can we put together now? February 16 – March 10” with the kickstarter logo

ALL THE QUEER BOOKS? Mission Accepted~

These are all queer fantasy adventures with focus on the aro & ace rep/worlds/relationships

Except for the COMMON BONDS antho, edited by me, which are aro SFF about platonic relationships (KS is done and dusted though!)

claudiearseneault.com/my-books/

The cover for the queer dark fantasy Norse myth retelling, The Goddess of Nothing At All by Cat Rector. A woman stands holding a wooden bowl, part of her face in shadow. The bowl is covered in glowing runes. The woman whose name is Sigyn, has long brown hair, with one section braided and running over her shoulder. Her skin is light brown. A long gray fur sits on her shoulders, accenting a long sleeved old Norse style dress. The dress is a dark green with silver embroidery around the collar and brown accents in a beaded necklace and belt. Behind her is a snowy landscape and the sky is filled with the northern lights. The art is by Grace Zhu. The first three chapters are available for free at Catrector.com.

The cover to the queer dark fantasy/horror vampire novel, Coal Gets In Your Veins by Cat Rector. Two characters lie on a dark, rocky background dotted by fireflies. The title of the book is in shape red font between them. On the bottom, Spencer looks up at Laurel, who looks down at him. Spencer is an effeminate man with pale skin and short, messy blonde hair and red eyes. He wears a white blouse with the chest open and a web of silver strands of jewellery spans across the opening. Laurel is a woman with long brown hair and brown eyes. She has white skin and wears a dark green t-shirt under black suspenders. The pinprick points of a vampire bite sit on her throat. The art is by scherville.

The cover of Learning to Bleed by Cat Rector, the sequel to Coal Gets In Your Veins. The cover is in the style of a classical painting, with a blush-grey background. In the foreground are two characters locked in a dipping embrace. Spencer, a pale man in a dark blue turtleneck sweater and jeans, with blonde bed-head hair, is holding up another character as she loses control and seems to be falling. His expression is lost and loving as he looks down at her. Laurel is leaning back in his arms, her long brown hair in waves over her back, her face up to the sky as her expression of uncontrolled rage stares upward. Her eyes are red and her mouth is wide open, showing her vampire fangs. A pool of blood soaks into the shoulder of Spencer’s sweater, coming from Laurel’s hand as it hangs above his shoulder. Laurel wears a tank top and red and black plaid. A red mist obscures their legs, making room for the title and author text. The cover artist is Scherville.

The Goddess of Nothing At All and Coal Gets In Your Veins are both 99 cents right now! I've got so much queer Loki and queer vampire action for readers, and my upcoming book is open for ARC readers! So many bi characters with poly horizons 👀

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Promo picture of Now and the Hour of Death, Dirt You Shall Become, and Drowned Hearts. Dark background photo with a tree in moonlight. Text (from above): Spooktober Sale. 0.99. Available wide, KoFi and Itch. Arrows pointing to each book> "Everything is evil" (Now and the hour of death). "The gardens are evil" (Dirt you shall become). "The ocean is evil" (Drowned Hearts.)

Happy Spooktober!

Choose your fighter:
- the ocean? 🌊🖤
- the gardens? 🤎🪱
- everything? 💀⏳

Or all of the above??
Spooky short stories only 99c thru October!

Ko-FI: ko-fi.com/k_lykkebo/shop
Itch: klykkebo.itch.io
Other: books2read.com/karenlykkebo

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Hey, Chapter 15? Slaps. #OctUntwining

I was wrong. That was Chapter 13. But I went through 14 again. These (alongside with the next one) are sections I'm still going to comb through like a thousand times until March. I guess I'm just making sure there's nothing atrocious that remains/is missing, for now. #OctUntwining

The Wickie's Path by voicesofvalhoon Something was watching Oliver...

Oh! Someone bought The Wickie’s Path on Itch 😊 It always surprises me when someone buys it because I never advertise it, but it makes my day because this little short story winning a comp at my library is what gave me the confidence to publish.
If you want a quick, spooky adjacent read check it out!

Can I interest you in some hungry queer vampires this fine morning? What if they went on a road trip across Canada, snacking on people like it was a wine tasting tour in all the major central cities? That could be fun 👀