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🖤 #1 Sunday Times Bestseller A FEATHER SO BLACK
🖤 A CROWN SO SILVER (2025), A HEART SO GREEN (2026)
🖤 AMBER & DUSK YA duology

Just four years ago, I truly believed my writing c Just four years ago, I truly believed my writing career was over. My YA duology had released to mediocre reviews and even worse sales, I’d just had a book die on submission, and I’d parted ways with my first agent. All I had was a rewrite of a rewrite of a trunked book from 2016 that I couldn’t stop thinking about. A book about a changeling princess and her cursed sister and the broody fae lord holding her captive. So I kept writing, even though I genuinely thought I would be the only person to ever read it. That book became A FEATHER SO BLACK.

Today, the third book in the Fair Folk trilogy, A HEART SO GREEN, ends the journey that began so long ago. I am so grateful that I kept working despite all the failures. I’m so grateful for my wonderful agent @jlwatterson who signed me based on rough sample pages. I’m so grateful to my critique partners and author friends who’ve cheered me on even when I wanted to give up. I’m so grateful to @orbitbooks_us and @orbitbooks_uk for bringing these books to life. And I’m so SO endlessly grateful to my readers, for buying, sharing, reviewing, and supporting this trilogy. 

Trust the journey. Every ending is its own beginning 💚

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Some endings don’t need words. The final chapter Some endings don’t need words. 

The final chapter of the Fair Folk trilogy arrives Tuesday with A HEART SO GREEN 💚 When you finish, come back to this—I promise it’ll hit different!

Digital painting by the extremely talented @vivaxor who captured these two so, so well 🙌🏼

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A HEART SO GREEN is the final installment of the F A HEART SO GREEN is the final installment of the Fair Folk trilogy and it hits shelves January 20th! 💚

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Welcoming 2026 with open arms! #newyears #2025rec Welcoming 2026 with open arms!

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Less than one month until A HEART SO GREEN, the fi Less than one month until A HEART SO GREEN, the final installment of the Fair Folk trilogy, hits shelves everywhere! A romantasy finale with everything: morally gray sisters at war, far and human realms in peril, and a love story tangled with fate itself.

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A CROWN SO SILVER, Book 2 of the Fair Folk Trilogy A CROWN SO SILVER, Book 2 of the Fair Folk Trilogy, is out in paperback today in the UK/ANZ! This book is set around the winter solstice and rooted in Celtic Mythology, featuring dangerous trials and opulent balls and sexy rituals, which makes it just about the perfect holiday read in my humble opinion ❄️ Grab your copy today from @orbitbooks_uk! 👑🩶

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When she flirts to disarm him, but he majored in b When she flirts to disarm him, but he majored in banter and homegirl can’t hang 🥵

The book is A FEATHER SO BLACK by Lyra Selene!

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So pleased by this generous review from @ala_bookl So pleased by this generous review from @ala_booklist on A HEART SO GREEN!

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Where did you come from? The shine of your eyes m Where did you come from?

The shine of your eyes makes me think I made a net of my want and captured you from the stars. 

The soft fluff of your hair makes me think you blew here like a dandelion, snagging and rooting in the soil of my love. 

The way you breathe in your sleep makes me think I opened a door into the darkness of dreaming—a twilight with every street lamp snuffed—and you alone heard me shouting:
Come inside
Come inside
Come inside, and stay ✨ 

Happy 5th birthday Sweetie-Goose. Mommy loves you!
Three books. Two sisters. One epic romantasy. Swan Three books. Two sisters. One epic romantasy. Swan princesses, faerie courts, star-crossed love—and in just THREE MONTHS, the story is finally complete. A HEART SO GREEN hits shelves January 20th, 2026! 

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Lucky girl, lucky life ✨ 13 years Lucky girl, lucky life ✨ 13 years
My first fantasy ball was smashing good fun! Thank My first fantasy ball was smashing good fun! Thank you to all the readers who came to get books signed, gave me special gifts, and sold AFSB out of the pop up bookstore! I loved meeting you all 🤍

And a huge thanks OF COURSE to @booksgownsandcrowns for inviting me! 

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Bring back yearning in men, you say? I can certain Bring back yearning in men, you say? I can certainly try!!!

I missed #SundaySnippet but anyway. Have a quote from Irian who has become quite the practiced yearner by Book 3 (A HEART SO GREEN) of the Fair Folk Trilogy, a romantasy series with everything: morally grey sisters at war, fae realms in peril, and a love story tangled with fate itself. I hope you’ll pick it up in January!

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Let’s hold some space to admire these exquisite @f Let’s hold some space to admire these exquisite @fairyloot editions of Books 1 and 2 of the Fair Folk Trilogy, A FEATHER SO BLACK and A CROWN SO SILVER. Interior art by the incredible @afterblossom_art and hardcover designs by @blanca.design.

What’s your favorite detail or feature???

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The book is A HEART SO GREEN, the final installmen The book is A HEART SO GREEN, the final installment of the Fair Folk trilogy by Lyra Selene! 

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Back from hiatus with a #SundaySnippet…today’s quo Back from hiatus with a #SundaySnippet…today’s quote is from our favorite brooding MMC who is ✨going through it✨ in A HEART SO GREEN, the final installment of the Fair Folk trilogy! Are you excited for his POV chapters in this book? There’s one in particular that I can’t wait for you to read 👀 

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Thrilled to share the stunning cover of the third Thrilled to share the stunning cover of the third and final book in the FAIR FOLK trilogy, A HEART SO GREEN! Cover designed by the ever-talented @von_brooklyn. Book releases in January from @orbitbooks_us—preörder links are in my bio!

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Although I touch on it frequently in my books, I f Although I touch on it frequently in my books, I find my feelings about motherhood difficult to condense into words. It is so huge and complicated and unwieldy, yet so inconceivably simple. It is as fraught as it is effortless. It is as hard as it is easy. 

The truth is, today I do not feel she owes me any gratitude or gifts, although I know she will  proudly proffer to me something hand-painted and glitter-strewn. She has already given me more than I deserve. She is the teacher, and I the very poor student. She is the lodestar, and if I shine as a mother it is only because of her bright light.

I asked her once whether she remembered what it was like inside my tummy. She smiled and said, simply: “Love.” 

Happy Mother’s Day to all, be it complicated or simple. Sending you all that love today 💗
If you’ve read AFSB and ACSS you know how importan If you’ve read AFSB and ACSS you know how important the Celtic high holy days are to narrative, and how they affect the magic separating the human world from Tír na nÓg. Bealtaine, or May Day, is one of the days when the veil is thinnest, and it’s not TOO much of a spoiler to say it’s also when the climax of Fia’s story takes place in Book 3!

Have a blessed Bealtaine, nothing to be concerned about over here! 🫶🏼🫣😘😘😘

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