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🖤 AMBER & DUSK YA duology
🖤 Magic, mayhem, and tortured romance
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Full of gratitude for my little family, my home, m

Full of gratitude for my little family, my home, my health, my writing, and YOU 🍁 Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!

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The book is A FEATHER SO BLACK by Lyra Selene, ava

The book is A FEATHER SO BLACK by Lyra Selene, available for preorder and out March 12 2024 🖤

#afeathersoblack #fairfolk #lyraselene #fantasy #romantasy #forthcoming #authorsofinstagram #bookstagram

I can hardly believe you’re three, lovely daught

I can hardly believe you’re three, lovely daughter. I still can’t quite fathom by what fates or fortune *you* came to *me,* but I am truly blessed to be your mother. Happy birthday, my love! 🧡

#toddlermom #birthdaygirl #threeyearsold #authorlife #scorpio

The leaves are mostly gone now. It will be stick s

The leaves are mostly gone now. It will be stick season here in New England soon. As much as I adore autumn, there is always something brutally melancholic about the slow fade toward the coming winter. Alas—the wheel keeps turning 🍂

#autumn #naturalnewengland #authorlife

Just a little spooky-season appropriate #SundaySni

Just a little spooky-season appropriate #SundaySnippet 🪦 The final scene in A FEATHER SO BLACK takes place on Samhain, the high holy day in the Celtic tradition that would eventually metamorphosis into Hallowe’en. Let’s just say it has a few at least mildly spooky moments! We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled romantic content next week, I promise 😆

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This handsome boy turns 6 today! Happy birthday Ke

This handsome boy turns 6 today! Happy birthday Kepler, you’re the same cuddle-obsessed, anxious, rambunctious, demanding tyrant as the day we got you 🖤

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A FEATHER SO BLACK by Lyra Selene releases March 2

A FEATHER SO BLACK by Lyra Selene releases March 2024 in the US and UK!

#afeathersoblack #fairfolk #lyraselene #proofcopies #authorsofinstagram #fantasy #romantasy

Love is a huge theme in A FEATHER SO BLACK—plato

Love is a huge theme in A FEATHER SO BLACK—platonic love, familial love, self love, but primarily romantic love. It is a twisted fairy tale reimagining, after all! And in mythology and folklore, for every happily ever after, there is a tragedy. For every kind prince who marries a serving girl in disguise, there is a mad king who wishes to marry his own daughter. For every beauty who disenchants a beast, there is a beauty torn to shreds by the hungry forest. For every great love story, there is a tragedy. And sometimes—many times—they are one and the same.

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Apparently I’m nearly finished with my tenth ful

Apparently I’m nearly finished with my tenth full length manuscript? 😱 I guess that means I’ve probably hit my million bad words, right? RIGHT? DID I MAKE? AM I A GOOD WRITER YET?

#unpublishedbooklist #trend #authorsofinstagram

We got married on a Saturday the 13th, but I knew

We got married on a Saturday the 13th, but I knew that meant our anniversary would eventually fall on a Friday the 13th, the spookiest day in the spookiest month. If only it was also our 13th anniversary…alas.

Happy 11 years, and thanks for always tolerating my whimsically gothic vibes 🖤👻

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I’m deep in drafting mode for AFSB Book 2 (title

I’m deep in drafting mode for AFSB Book 2 (title to come 👀) but my critique partner very nicely asked—nay, *begged*—me to share this line as a #SundaySnippet. So you can thank @karaqwrites for this thrilling insight into a sequel to a book you haven’t read yet, where everyone’s doing the right thing and having the best time ever and not worrying about any moral implications of anything whatsoever 🤡💀🖤👌🏼

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First pass pages are back to my publisher, which m

First pass pages are back to my publisher, which means A FEATHER SO BLACK is one step closer to becoming a Real Book. It’s both wildly exciting and unbearably terrifying to think that review copies will soon be out in the wild, and then in about 5 months, the book releases to the world!

With just about 2 months until Book 2 is due, I’m preparing to go full hermit while in drafting mode. But before I transform into a bridge troll subsisting on cups of coffee and pumpkin Joe-Joes, I’ll leave you with this #SundaySnippet, probably the last for a while….the opening paragraph of the type-set book!

Fun fact: this opening line has stayed the same since the first draft of this version! First (and last) lines are something I tend to agonize over, but this one has always felt perfect for the story and the narrator. So I hope this is a fun little teaser for what’s to come 🪶🖤 🦢

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The book is A FEATHER SO BLACK, an adult romantasy

The book is A FEATHER SO BLACK, an adult romantasy Swan Lake retelling inspired by Celtic mythology. Available for preorder now!

#bookstagram #romantasy #lyraselene #afeathersoblack #fairfolk #celticmythology #swanlakeretelling #authorsofinstagram

There are quite a few new faces around here so I t

There are quite a few new faces around here so I thought I should do a quick introduction! 👋🏼

Hello, I’m Lyra. I write lyrical fantasy novels about the alchemy of love, the price of magic, and the landscapes that haunt us ✨

Some things about me:

1. I’m an Aquarius, 4w5, ENTP (although I 100% identify as an introvert)

2. When I’m not writing, reading, or chasing after my toddler and dog, I enjoy being outdoors in nature, playing the piano, doing Peloton or pilates, or binge-watching something incredibly niche (currently rewatching Nancy Drew which is perfect for spooky season 👻)

3. My father was a merchant marine for most of my life, and I owe at least some of my storytelling instinct to the wild tales he brought home of his seafaring life…of impossible mirages glimpsed on distant horizons, strange characters amid stranger environments, and the perfect solitude of the stars above still water ⚓️

4. I dabble in poetry. My favorite poets to read are Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary Oliver, Christina Rosetti, and John Keats. If you ever see a poem I wrote…no you didn’t ✍🏼

5. The books I’ve reread the most are: CROWN DUEL, by Sherwood Smith ⚔️ PRIDE & PREJUDICE, by Jane Austen 📕 KUSHIEL’S DART, by Jacqueline Carey 🥀 THE DARK IS RISING, by Susan Cooper ❄️ and ELFQUEST, by Wendy and Richard Pini 🧝 If that doesn’t tell you all you need to know about the kind of books I write, then I don’t know what will!

6. I was born under a full moon, and I’m named after a constellation and a moon goddess. Coming as a shock to absolutely no one, I’m a night owl 🦉

I’m happy you’re here! Now tell me something about YOU! 🧡 #lyraselene #authorsofinstagram #bookstagram #fantasy

I cannot wait for you to meet them 🖤 The book

I cannot wait for you to meet them 🖤

The book is A FEATHER SO BLACK by Lyra Selene (that’s me!) releasing March 2024… available for preorder now!

#afeathersoblack #fairfolktrilogy #lyraselene #romantasy #authorsofinstagram #bookstagram #sundaysnippet

HAPPY SEPTEMBER 🍁 #autumn #september #spookys

HAPPY SEPTEMBER 🍁

#autumn #september #spookyseason #letmehavethis #authorlife #newhampshire

Utterly obsessed with the UK cover for A FEATHER S

Utterly obsessed with the UK cover for A FEATHER SO BLACK!

The Cruel Prince meets For the Wolf in a sizzling fantasy romance inspired by Celtic mythology, spinning a magical tale of a defiant changeling, her cursed sister, and the dangerous fae lord she must defeat to save her family.

Available March 2024! Preorder links in bio 🪶🦢🖤

#afeathersoblack #fairfolktrilogy #lyraselene #romantasy #authorsofinstagram #bookstagram

I’m so thrilled to share the stunning UK cover f

I’m so thrilled to share the stunning UK cover for A FEATHER SO BLACK!

The Cruel Prince meets For the Wolf in a sizzling fantasy romance inspired by Celtic mythology, spinning a magical tale of a defiant changeling, her cursed sister, and the dangerous fae lord she must defeat to save her family.

Coming March 2024 from @orbitbooks_uk! Available for preorder now—links in bio!

#afeathersoblack #fairfolktrilogy #romantasy #orbitbooks #lyraselene #authorsofinstagram #bookstagram

Mark your calendars 📆 A FEATHER SO BLACK is get

Mark your calendars 📆 A FEATHER SO BLACK is getting a second gorgeous cover for UK markets and I get to share it with you this Friday! Do you think it’ll be similar? Or wildly different??? 👀 I can’t WAIT to show you all!

#afeathersoblack #fairfolktrilogy #lyraselene #coverreveal #romantasy #bookstagram #authorsofinstagram

#sundaysnippet 🪶🖤🦢 #afeathersoblack #fa

#sundaysnippet 🪶🖤🦢

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