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helynalc.bsky.social
author of SKYLARK IN THE FOG (2022) and IMBUED (2024) • she/they ✨ // • we reach forward • // NO genAI or LLMs All links in one place: helynalclove.com/links
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7 more sleeps and Lilje Damselfly is out in the world! Did you know I offer paperback pre-orders from my website for £10 each? Free UK shipping and I have a drop-ship option for those in the US(you still get all the goodies and a stamped bookplate) 📚 💙 Nataliekelda.co.uk/shop

So much of the “promise” of AI right now is saving time creating. Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend *more* time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.

I haven't been around a lot these days, but guess what. I have books! If you like stories featuring lost, trauma-riddled almost-adults searching for home and finding it in each other, searching for agency and trudging through messy pain to grasp it, I write that. Links on my profile! 📚💙 📚🪐 🌈📚

Parliament of Owls

Please do not forget that you can request me to beta read your draft! Fiction and nonfiction, novel or short story, or even a chapter! I mostly read fantasy and sci-fi, but I'm up for nearly all genres. I promise I will care for your story! 💜 I'm also pretty cheap. Check it out! #BookSky ⬇️

Day 3 of Gratuitous Skylark Posting #WIPSnips tfw u and ur buddies cross dangerous space-time rifts on a rickety spaceship 😮‍💨 featuring one of my fave similes in the book lol

Please do not forget that you can request me to beta read your draft! Fiction and nonfiction, novel or short story, or even a chapter! I mostly read fantasy and sci-fi, but I'm up for nearly all genres. I promise I will care for your story! 💜 I'm also pretty cheap. Check it out! #BookSky ⬇️

By Sergiu Ciochinã (Moldovan, born 2001) "Me, or the Moon Watching Me", 2024. Oil on Board. Private Collection. #ArtSky #Art #Painting

Your bi-monthly reminder that sex favorable and sex positive are not the same thing; sex negative and sex averse or repulsed are not the same thing. Positive/negative refers to your opinions on sex as a concept for everyone. Favorable/averse-slash-repulsed: your opinion on sex personally, for YOU.

Book post!! Glittery sprayed edge Quarantine Thirteen by @nataliekelda.bsky.social, alongside art of deadly birds, Barry sticker, and Barry signature card! 😅🥰

🪽COVER REVEAL🪽 Meet Ynis (left), Guin (right), & the eponymous Grey Angel! Art by @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social Calligraphy by @probably-emma.com This T4T lesbian fantasy romance has adventure, romance, & gender-affirming monster smut. 🩶JULY 1 🩶 PRE-ORDER: danifinn.itch.io/grey-angel

I did it and now I'm gonna eat my weight in mangoes and strawberries 💪

let me tell you now that I'm about to start, my enthusiasm certainly dwindled 😅

3 books you've read at least twice 💜 Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie 💜 Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao 💜 Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke #BookSky

I rarely DNF, I think I'm generally fairly good at choosing books that I at least appreciate on some level. My last couple of DNFs were because I couldn't connect with the characters so I was bored and annoyed, and/or the writing was repetitive, clumsy, confusing.

gonna workout for an hour today and it's going to be ✨ lovely ✨

more Skylark? more Skylark. #WIPSnips quick contextless snip from the Very Intense Spaceship Chase towards the end of the book. they've got a plan, y'alls!! it even...it even goes okay for a little while! 😅 ...this is also right after my ✨ shameless Jurassic Park quote ✨

I'm mostly lawful or true neutral now, sometimes neutral evil. I've been chaotic good before, too.

4am I'm Awake Free Me (it's bc we're taking kitty to vet, and she can't eat now, and she's taking that Personally, and I'm Anxious)

THE FOLDED SKY drops on Tuesday! (US) and Thursday! (UK) Pre-orders make the world go round! books2read.com/b/mBB0QZ?edi...