Karen Lucia | Author
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Author of Blackburn Station, Landbringer, and the Warriors of Helsvern series. SFF. Fan of video games, eating snacks, and doodling. 💙📚🌈📚 (She/Her)
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Karen Lucia | Author
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Before We Go Blog reviews Molly Dowd Sullivan's spooky contemporary fantasy, A Light from the Nether for #SPFBOXI!
A great one to check out for October!
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A great one to check out for October!
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#SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social
SPFBOXI Review: A Light From the Nether by Molly Dowd Sullivan
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October 6, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Before We Go Blog reviews Molly Dowd Sullivan's spooky contemporary fantasy, A Light from the Nether for #SPFBOXI!
A great one to check out for October!
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#SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social
A great one to check out for October!
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#SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social
Howdy friends! It would be so cool to get some donations in this week for Drop Deadlift Gorgeous on the 24th! You can sponsor my deadlift to support trans+ communities! Or pick up a book between now and the 24th and I'll donate one dollar of the proceeds.
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October 1, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Howdy friends! It would be so cool to get some donations in this week for Drop Deadlift Gorgeous on the 24th! You can sponsor my deadlift to support trans+ communities! Or pick up a book between now and the 24th and I'll donate one dollar of the proceeds.
💙📚🌈📚⚔️📚🚀🏋♀️
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💙📚🌈📚⚔️📚🚀🏋♀️
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Last call for novella submissions! We have three spots left! Submissions will be closing tomorrow (September 26th) at 11am EST. #authors #writers #booksky
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September 26, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Last call for novella submissions! We have three spots left! Submissions will be closing tomorrow (September 26th) at 11am EST. #authors #writers #booksky
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We are coming up on spooky season, so why not check out a a sapphic vampire novella!
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Happy Friday friends! Looking for something to read this weekend? @karenlucia.bsky.social might just have you covered - check out her #bookreview for We're All Monsters Here, the first book in the Vampires series by Amy Marsden
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September 25, 2026 at 11:35 AM
We are coming up on spooky season, so why not check out a a sapphic vampire novella!
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Get those novellas in! SFINCS is now open for speculative fiction novellas!
September 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Get those novellas in! SFINCS is now open for speculative fiction novellas!
Queer Your eReader is tomorrow!
A Second Life Worth Living will be on the list so keep an eye out for it as you find your next queer read!
A Second Life Worth Living will be on the list so keep an eye out for it as you find your next queer read!
For Queer Your eReader last year, we had over 2K unique visitors on the site. So...can we beat that this year? Maybe hit 3K? Our next event takes place this Saturday, 12th September. Make sure you bookmark and visit for free queer books this Saturday
Queer Your eReader — Divination Hollow Reviews
Queer Your eReader is a book blast event hosted by Divination Hollow Reviews. Our next event will take place 12th September, 2026, and includes Romance, Horror, Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Mystery/Thriller books!
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September 11, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Queer Your eReader is tomorrow!
A Second Life Worth Living will be on the list so keep an eye out for it as you find your next queer read!
A Second Life Worth Living will be on the list so keep an eye out for it as you find your next queer read!
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If you have a novella, start getting it ready!
As we prepare to open the entry form on September 19, 2026, we've established the timeline for judging rounds! We've also outlined when reviews are required and how many. 👀👀 #booksky💙📚👀
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Competition Timeline | The Speculative Fiction
Competition timeline details for The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship (SFINCS, pronounced “sphinx”)
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September 7, 2026 at 10:51 AM
If you have a novella, start getting it ready!
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This free online book reading plus Q&A is tomorrow. You must register before to be ushered into the inner sanctum. We'd be delighted to have you join us. Plus giveaways!
@ldcolter.com @karenlucia.bsky.social @emmiechristie33.bsky.social @slashnburnett.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social
#SWSWQR
@ldcolter.com @karenlucia.bsky.social @emmiechristie33.bsky.social @slashnburnett.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social
#SWSWQR
September 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
This free online book reading plus Q&A is tomorrow. You must register before to be ushered into the inner sanctum. We'd be delighted to have you join us. Plus giveaways!
@ldcolter.com @karenlucia.bsky.social @emmiechristie33.bsky.social @slashnburnett.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social
#SWSWQR
@ldcolter.com @karenlucia.bsky.social @emmiechristie33.bsky.social @slashnburnett.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social
#SWSWQR
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Tomorrow! 8 min readings. Book giveaways!
Find a new favorite SFF author at the FREE Zoom event. Register in advance at www.eventbrite.com/e/first-frid...
#SWSWQR #sff #fantasy
@emmiechristie33.bsky.social @slashnburnett.bsky.social
@nillunasser.bsky.social @karenlucia.bsky.social Alex Grehy
Find a new favorite SFF author at the FREE Zoom event. Register in advance at www.eventbrite.com/e/first-frid...
#SWSWQR #sff #fantasy
@emmiechristie33.bsky.social @slashnburnett.bsky.social
@nillunasser.bsky.social @karenlucia.bsky.social Alex Grehy
September 3, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Tomorrow! 8 min readings. Book giveaways!
Find a new favorite SFF author at the FREE Zoom event. Register in advance at www.eventbrite.com/e/first-frid...
#SWSWQR #sff #fantasy
@emmiechristie33.bsky.social @slashnburnett.bsky.social
@nillunasser.bsky.social @karenlucia.bsky.social Alex Grehy
Find a new favorite SFF author at the FREE Zoom event. Register in advance at www.eventbrite.com/e/first-frid...
#SWSWQR #sff #fantasy
@emmiechristie33.bsky.social @slashnburnett.bsky.social
@nillunasser.bsky.social @karenlucia.bsky.social Alex Grehy
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I'll be one of the featured authors at this virtual reading along with @ldcolter.com. Here's my challenge to you to share the first line or two of the book you're reading from, and to tag one of our fellow authors. I'll share mine too 📚 www.eventbrite.com/e/first-frid...
#swswqr #booksky #reading
#swswqr #booksky #reading
August 28, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I'll be one of the featured authors at this virtual reading along with @ldcolter.com. Here's my challenge to you to share the first line or two of the book you're reading from, and to tag one of our fellow authors. I'll share mine too 📚 www.eventbrite.com/e/first-frid...
#swswqr #booksky #reading
#swswqr #booksky #reading
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Opening line of Ex Partum: The baby was awake.
(They say you shouldn't start a story with the MC waking up. But they never said anything about the baby.)
Join us at @swsworlds.bsky.social to hear more!
Whatchu got, @emmiechristie33.bsky.social?
#SWSWQR
(They say you shouldn't start a story with the MC waking up. But they never said anything about the baby.)
Join us at @swsworlds.bsky.social to hear more!
Whatchu got, @emmiechristie33.bsky.social?
#SWSWQR
I'll be one of the featured authors at this virtual reading along with @ldcolter.com. Here's my challenge to you to share the first line or two of the book you're reading from, and to tag one of our fellow authors. I'll share mine too 📚 www.eventbrite.com/e/first-frid...
#swswqr #booksky #reading
#swswqr #booksky #reading
August 28, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Opening line of Ex Partum: The baby was awake.
(They say you shouldn't start a story with the MC waking up. But they never said anything about the baby.)
Join us at @swsworlds.bsky.social to hear more!
Whatchu got, @emmiechristie33.bsky.social?
#SWSWQR
(They say you shouldn't start a story with the MC waking up. But they never said anything about the baby.)
Join us at @swsworlds.bsky.social to hear more!
Whatchu got, @emmiechristie33.bsky.social?
#SWSWQR
Opening of Blackburn Station: "I had kept myself alive. I clawed my way forward, saving myself. And for what?"
Come hear some more on Sept 4 at 11 Central! Hosted by @swsworlds.bsky.social
Show me what you got @ldcolter.com
#SWSWQR 📚🌈📚💙📚🚀📚
Come hear some more on Sept 4 at 11 Central! Hosted by @swsworlds.bsky.social
Show me what you got @ldcolter.com
#SWSWQR 📚🌈📚💙📚🚀📚
Opening line of Hazards of Being Related to the Chosen One: "You would think it’s hard when the villain’s henchmen strafe our house with photon lasers."
Join us at @swsworlds.bsky.social to listen to the rest of this flash fiction!
Tagging @karenlucia.bsky.social to keep this going!
#SWSWQR
Join us at @swsworlds.bsky.social to listen to the rest of this flash fiction!
Tagging @karenlucia.bsky.social to keep this going!
#SWSWQR
Opening line of Ex Partum: The baby was awake.
(They say you shouldn't start a story with the MC waking up. But they never said anything about the baby.)
Join us at @swsworlds.bsky.social to hear more!
Whatchu got, @emmiechristie33.bsky.social?
#SWSWQR
(They say you shouldn't start a story with the MC waking up. But they never said anything about the baby.)
Join us at @swsworlds.bsky.social to hear more!
Whatchu got, @emmiechristie33.bsky.social?
#SWSWQR
September 1, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Opening of Blackburn Station: "I had kept myself alive. I clawed my way forward, saving myself. And for what?"
Come hear some more on Sept 4 at 11 Central! Hosted by @swsworlds.bsky.social
Show me what you got @ldcolter.com
#SWSWQR 📚🌈📚💙📚🚀📚
Come hear some more on Sept 4 at 11 Central! Hosted by @swsworlds.bsky.social
Show me what you got @ldcolter.com
#SWSWQR 📚🌈📚💙📚🚀📚
I have some book fun coming up in September!
August 27, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I have some book fun coming up in September!
Help support trans+ communities by sponsoring me during Drop Deadlift Gorgeous!
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August 27, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Help support trans+ communities by sponsoring me during Drop Deadlift Gorgeous!
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I decided to do a little refresh on my cover for A Seond Life Worth Living. Because even dark dystopian novellas deserve a little love
August 24, 2026 at 9:54 PM
I decided to do a little refresh on my cover for A Seond Life Worth Living. Because even dark dystopian novellas deserve a little love
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Join us & we'll tell you stories! Proper good ones!
4 Sept, 5pm GMT
@ldcolter.com
@emmiechristie33.bsky.social
@karenlucia.bsky.social
@swsworlds.bsky.social worlds.bsky.social
@nillunasser.bsky.social
@authorterribruce.bsky.social
@christianek.bsky.social
#SWSWQR
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4 Sept, 5pm GMT
@ldcolter.com
@emmiechristie33.bsky.social
@karenlucia.bsky.social
@swsworlds.bsky.social worlds.bsky.social
@nillunasser.bsky.social
@authorterribruce.bsky.social
@christianek.bsky.social
#SWSWQR
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First Friday - Third Thursday QuickRead
6 authors * 8 minutes each - come find your next favorite read with us!
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August 24, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Join us & we'll tell you stories! Proper good ones!
4 Sept, 5pm GMT
@ldcolter.com
@emmiechristie33.bsky.social
@karenlucia.bsky.social
@swsworlds.bsky.social worlds.bsky.social
@nillunasser.bsky.social
@authorterribruce.bsky.social
@christianek.bsky.social
#SWSWQR
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4 Sept, 5pm GMT
@ldcolter.com
@emmiechristie33.bsky.social
@karenlucia.bsky.social
@swsworlds.bsky.social worlds.bsky.social
@nillunasser.bsky.social
@authorterribruce.bsky.social
@christianek.bsky.social
#SWSWQR
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Curious about September's Queer Your eReader authors, and want to find out when our next event takes place? Then you need to check out our latest Substack post!
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Queer Your eReader September 2026 Authors
A special announcement today, as we reveal the authors taking part in September's Queer Your eReader free book blast event!
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August 22, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Curious about September's Queer Your eReader authors, and want to find out when our next event takes place? Then you need to check out our latest Substack post!
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Come find some new and amazing speculative fiction by women and non-binary authors!
Join me, @ldcolter.com, @emmiechristie33.bsky.social, @slashnburnett.bsky.social, and @nillunasser.bsky.social while we read snips of our science fiction, fantasy, and horror books. #SWSWQR
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Join me, @ldcolter.com, @emmiechristie33.bsky.social, @slashnburnett.bsky.social, and @nillunasser.bsky.social while we read snips of our science fiction, fantasy, and horror books. #SWSWQR
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July 30, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Come find some new and amazing speculative fiction by women and non-binary authors!
Join me, @ldcolter.com, @emmiechristie33.bsky.social, @slashnburnett.bsky.social, and @nillunasser.bsky.social while we read snips of our science fiction, fantasy, and horror books. #SWSWQR
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Join me, @ldcolter.com, @emmiechristie33.bsky.social, @slashnburnett.bsky.social, and @nillunasser.bsky.social while we read snips of our science fiction, fantasy, and horror books. #SWSWQR
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Congratulations to Wraith and the Revolution by @ajcalvin.bsky.social
You are through to round 2 of #BBNYA2026
Well done!
You are through to round 2 of #BBNYA2026
Well done!
July 22, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Congratulations to Wraith and the Revolution by @ajcalvin.bsky.social
You are through to round 2 of #BBNYA2026
Well done!
You are through to round 2 of #BBNYA2026
Well done!
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Congratulations to Fimbulvinter's Fires by @amweald.com
You are through to round 2 of #BBNYA2026
Well done!
You are through to round 2 of #BBNYA2026
Well done!
July 22, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Congratulations to Fimbulvinter's Fires by @amweald.com
You are through to round 2 of #BBNYA2026
Well done!
You are through to round 2 of #BBNYA2026
Well done!
Woot woot!
Congratulations to A Second Life Worth Living by @karenlucia.bsky.social
You are through to round 2 of #BBNYA2026
Well done!
You are through to round 2 of #BBNYA2026
Well done!
July 22, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Woot woot!
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A new graphic novel review for you today, as @karenlucia.bsky.social shares her thoughts on Shake the Lake by Zach Block
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July 1, 2026 at 10:01 AM
A new graphic novel review for you today, as @karenlucia.bsky.social shares her thoughts on Shake the Lake by Zach Block
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With a little over a week to go for Pride in Horror, we have more queer goodness for you until the end of the month! Today, we feature an interview with author @clhellisen.bsky.social, by our very own @xanwriter.bsky.social!
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June 22, 2026 at 10:01 AM
With a little over a week to go for Pride in Horror, we have more queer goodness for you until the end of the month! Today, we feature an interview with author @clhellisen.bsky.social, by our very own @xanwriter.bsky.social!
www.divinationhollow.com/reviews-and-...
www.divinationhollow.com/reviews-and-...
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The last Friday of Pride in Horror, and today we feature a #bookreview from admin @elleturpitt.bsky.social, who loved sapphic paranormal YA horror, When I Was Death
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June 26, 2026 at 10:02 AM
The last Friday of Pride in Horror, and today we feature a #bookreview from admin @elleturpitt.bsky.social, who loved sapphic paranormal YA horror, When I Was Death