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Writer | Apex, Analog, Weird Tales & more | BFA Finalist | HYDOYQ '23 & LIMELIGHT Sep '24 @shortwavebooks | DARK CRESCENT '25 Luna Press | Film/TV: Sean Berard

Edinburgh, Scotland | she/her

https://t.co/ENEnTAqlLm

Joined November 2018

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Lyndsey Croal

3 months

✨COVER REVEAL!!✨So thrilled with this cover by @AlanDistro for my debut collection LIMELIGHT! When it landed in my inbox I just went WOW! Can't wait to hold this book in September! Zoom in for a peek at super lovely blurbs from @serialsemantic , @R_E_Treasure & Aliya Whiteley!👀

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@ShortwaveBooks

3 months

👁️ Cover reveal for @writerlynds 's debut collection, LIMELIGHT and Other Stories. 👁️ LIMELIGHT is "an impressive collection" ( @R_E_Treasure , Managing Editor of APEX Magazine) of dark science fiction tales from near and far futures. Cover art by @AlanDistro . Out September 3rd!

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Lyndsey Croal

5 months

Pippin is home and already the prince of my flat 🥺🥰

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5 months

The wee lion sleeps 🐈😭

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Pippin is home and already the prince of my flat 🥺🥰

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2 months

How it started, how it's going (3 months vs 6 months of Pippin)

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4 months

Vet visit verdict: Pippin is perfect and also 3.3kg, which is "quite large for a 4 month old kitten"... 😅🐈

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4 months

3 weeks of Pippin growing into his paws...🐈😅

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5 months

Pippin squared ✨️

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5 months

Pippin demands to know what books you'll be reading this holiday weekend 👀🐈📚✨️

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Lyndsey Croal

5 months

Pippin has had a very chilled second day home, with breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner everything a growing hobbit kitten needs 💙🤗

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5 months

Pippin is home and already the prince of my flat 🥺🥰

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4 years

Until further notice, I will only be drinking tea from this mug 🦖 @dinoman_j

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3 years

The editing process as told by four owls 👀🦉 #writerslife

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5 months

Pippin might look sweet and angelic, but he's been full of beans and running around causing mischief all morning 🙃🐈

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5 months

For folks who followed me yesterday for Pippin pics, my account is usually mostly weird horror, sci fi, Scottish folklore, and writing and bookish chat...amongst the now occasional kitten pics 💁‍♀️🐈📚🤗

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5 months

Well this post is going a bit bonkers, folks here for the kitten pics, Pippin says hi 🐈😅

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5 months

Pippin is home and already the prince of my flat 🥺🥰

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5 months

Big stretch 🐈🥰

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5 months

His whiskers, his ears, his big paws 🥺💙

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5 months

HIS FACE 🥺

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5 months

Pippin (ready to cause mayhem) Took🥷

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5 months

It's been a hard day for prince Pippin 😄🐈

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4 months

Pippin disapproves of me calling him a cute little Hobbit 🙃

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5 months

Cat tree has been discovered and almost conquered, though Pippin is very unsure about the see through bubble part 🐈👀

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5 months

A week with Pippin, what a happy, fun, adventurous, mischievous, and adorable wee familiar he is 🥰

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5 months

Nice to have a wee working from home pal 🥺💙

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3 months

Pippin growing up to be the most handsomest of cats 🥰

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5 months

Pippin, my April Fool of a Took, and today my wee writing companion extraordinaire ✨️📚🐈

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5 months

Note to self: don't unwrap a cat feather toy with your back to a kitten, as he will apparently leap onto you and climb up your back to get to it...🙃

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Lyndsey Croal

4 months

Came through to make a coffee after a work call and found him like this, he is taunting me 🙃🐈

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4 months

This morning Pippin did a wee head nudge into my chin for the first time, and it was the sweetest thing for at least two minutes...and then he bit me 🙃🥲

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4 months

I simply don't believe he's a real cat 🙃

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Lyndsey Croal

3 months

Someone asked me how long almost 5 month old Pippin is now... 👀🐈

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Lyndsey Croal

3 months

There are a hundred cushions and blankets in the flat, so of course he chooses a coaster 🙃🐈

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3 months

His whiskers, that is all

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Lyndsey Croal

5 months

It seems Pippin likes to fetch 🥺😭 (also of all the things, the scrunchy foil thing I got for 50p is of course his fave activity)

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Lyndsey Croal

4 months

Sometimes I think Pippin can't be goofier and he always proves me wrong 😭😂

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3 months

A curious Pippin wee garden adventure 🥰🐈

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5 months

Big Stretch, a compilation 🐈

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Lyndsey Croal

5 months

He has so many comfy cosy options, so of course he chooses a square paper towel to curl up on 😂

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Lyndsey Croal

4 months

He's growing (up) so fast 💙🥺🐈

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Lyndsey Croal

3 months

Two variations of Pippin, he is ridiculous 🥲

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4 months

He's 50% tail at this point 💁‍♀️🐈

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Lyndsey Croal

2 years

In a slightly unexpected (and very exciting!) turn of events, I'm going to be taking up a writing Fellowship at Hawthornden Castle Literary Retreat near the end of November! A month in a Scottish castle just to write...not quite sunk in yet! 🤗🎉🏰✍️

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Lyndsey Croal

5 months

Also, lol why is he standing like this 😂

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Lyndsey Croal

3 years

In Scotland, trick-or-treating is known as guising, a custom that traces back to a time when children were disguised as spirits to blend in with those active on Samhain night. When guising, children receive gifts to ward off evil in exchange for a story or song. #FolkloreThursday

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Lyndsey Croal

4 months

Just chilling with his ghoul friend 👻

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Lyndsey Croal

3 months

Monday feels 🙈

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Lyndsey Croal

4 months

A round of a-paws for this paw 🐾

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4 months

Important delivery 🐈

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Lyndsey Croal

3 months

I should go to bed, but...🙃

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Lyndsey Croal

10 months

October 30th, making plans 💁‍♀️✍️

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Lyndsey Croal

4 months

Pippin sitting on the cushion I put in place of the plant pot he smashed earlier, don't tell me he didn't plan this 🙈

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Lyndsey Croal

3 months

Happy Sunday! Hope it's as chilled as Pippin's 💁‍♀️🐈

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4 months

He's helping 💁‍♀️🎁

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4 months

Today's writing set up 💁‍♀️weekend target, 65k words of deep sea book ✍️

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7 days

Pippin pic from my mum this morning, glowing and regal on his holiday, watching the sea 🥰🌊

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4 months

Pippin is happy I'm home, but making sure I don't head off again 💁‍♀️🤗🐈

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4 months

Pippin says read more horror 💁‍♀️👀

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2 months

Just a kitten pondering the meaning of life 🐈

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8 days

Start a new job this week and will be heading down to London for a couple days, so Pip is off up to my parents for a holiday by the sea! He has the perfect window spot 🌊🥰

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Lyndsey Croal

14 days

My first official author signing 🤗✍️

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Lyndsey Croal

6 months

✨Some exciting news!!✨Absolutely over the moon to announce that my debut short story collection LIMELIGHT will be coming out with @ShortwaveBooks on September 3rd THIS YEAR - in hardback, paperback & e-book! My first published full-length book, and a total dream!🚀✍️🎉🤖

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Shortwave Publishing

@ShortwaveBooks

6 months

LIMELIGHT by @writerlynds is a new collection of over twenty dark science fiction tales from near and far futures. Perfect for fans of Black Mirror and Love, Death + Robots, LIMELIGHT will be out in hardcover, paperback, and eBook Sept. 3rd! More info:

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5 months

Pippin has commandeered my hot water bottle, unacceptable hijinks💁‍♀️🐈

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3 months

Pippin 5 months, 4.3kg, primarily paws and tail 💁‍♀️🐈

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4 months

Pippin after luncheon, contemplating life 🐈

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2 months

Pippin wouldn't keep his cone on so I bought a soft one to stop him licking his wound...I don't think he's any happier and he's plotting his revenge as we speak 🙃

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4 months

Livs, laugh, loaf 🍞

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4 months

Daily yoga is important for growing kittens 🧘‍♀️

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3 months

Same favourite cushion, two months apart....Pippin 5 months old today 😅🐈

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Lyndsey Croal

4 years

In Scottish Hebridean folklore the aurora is known as Na Fir Chlis – the merry dancers who are supernatural sky warriors. When the lights move fast, then a great battle is ongoing between clans. As blood fell from the wounded to Earth it created bloodstones. #FolkloreThursday

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1 month

My lovely mum got Pippin this chunky cat tree palace for his wee holiday so he can sit and watch the sea, he's very cosy and content, which good for him as he kept me up all night jumping on my head so he must be tired 🥰🙃

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Lyndsey Croal

2 months

Another wee Pippin comparison pic I really can't get over how much he's grown in just 3 months he's going to be a giant 😅💁‍♀️

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Lyndsey Croal

5 months

Introducing Pippin to Stardew Valley, new updates so a new farm - perfect Friday afternoon 🐈👩‍🌾

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25 days

90% tail, 10% cat 🐈

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3 months

Today has been one of those rejection influx days, so if the universe would like to balance that out in some way I wouldn't complain...at least I'm back home with Pippin after a wee work trip, he's almost forgiven me for being away 👀🥲🐈🥰

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5 months

Just a ball of floof to brighten your Monday 🐈

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2 months

My pals wanted to find out how tall Pippin is in books, the answer is 26 📚🐈

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2 months

Home from work trip, Pippin has definitely grown in just a week 😅🐈🥰

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2 months

Pippin with sofa for scale, just your average six month old kitten with at least a year of growing to do 😅🐈

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2 months

Pippin's desk hammock slipped a little so this is how he's keeping balanced 🐈

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2 months

The longest kitten tail in all the lands 🥺🐈

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3 months

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Can you show me a beautiful image that will change my life

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Lyndsey Croal

2 months

Hey #WritingCommunity folks, I'm Lyndsey 👋 I love all things SFF & horror and write about fears, far futures, and folklore! My debut collection is out in September and I'm working on longer projects set in space and the deep sea! I live in Scotland with my giant kitten Pippin 🤗

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Lyndsey Croal

3 months

"What about second breakfast?"

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3 months

Pippin plus bookshelves, a progression 💁‍♀️

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3 months

The mischievous plotting in his eyes 👀🙃

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3 years

Tree up 📚✨🎄

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Lyndsey Croal

4 years

🎉Delighted to share that I'm now represented by @RobbieGuillory at @KNLitAgency ! 🎉 Still feels slightly surreal, and I'm so excited to be working with Robbie on this next step - starting with my adult #scifi novel about an astrobotanist lost in a creepy alien jungle! 🚀🌳👩‍🚀

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Lyndsey Croal

5 months

I'm unbelievably excited to share that my collection of dark and seasonal Scottish folklore tales DARK CRESCENT has found the perfect home with @LunaPressGlobal ! It'll be out in the first half of next year - a total dream to be working with Luna!💙🌙

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@LunaPressGlobal

5 months

We are delighted to welcome to the Luna family, Scottish writer @writerlynds Lyndsey Croal! Her fantasy folk collection, Dark Crescent, will be published in June 2025. 🥰

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Lyndsey Croal

5 months

A very chill Friday night, magic, murder, and mystery courtesy of @Frances_Writes 's Voyage of the Damned and the perfect reading company 📚🐈🥺

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Lyndsey Croal

2 months

I watched Return of the King on the plane home, so Pippin's new nickname is "Guard of the Citadel, indeed" 🗡🐈

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5 months

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11 months

Ah woke up to an acceptance for what might be my favourite horror short story for a very cool anthology! ✨️🎉🖤

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Lyndsey Croal

5 months

Pippin is helping me celebrate the 1 year book birthday of Have You Decided on Your Question! 🎉 It's been an exciting year, and I'm so grateful to @ShortwaveBooks for giving this Black Mirror-esque tale of dark tech and obsession a chance! Excited for our next project ✨️👀📚

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Lyndsey Croal

4 months

Mondays are hard work 🐾

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8 months

A bit of flat reorganisation and now I have a nice and bright writing nook (with the £10 desk find I upcycled this year) - editing today, in preparation for writing the final quarter of deep sea book...! 🤗✍️

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Lyndsey Croal

4 months

In a huff and plotting his revenge, because I took a pen off him that he stole from my desk, before he could get ink everywhere... 🙃

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4 months

PAWS 🐾

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4 months

A busy weekend of napping and snacking 💁‍♀️

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4 months

Weighing up how to distract us so he can steal the dice...

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5 months

Pals usually visit when Pippin is really chill, so they of course don't believe me about his morning and midnight zoomies...💁‍♀️🐈

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Lyndsey Croal

4 months

Sneak attack for 2.0x damage 👀🐈

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Lyndsey Croal

1 month

Who wants to guess the length of Pippin's tail? 💁‍♀️

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