Month: December 2018

Winter Sale!

Posted December 15, 2018 by Lynn E. O'Connacht in News / 0 Comments

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Winter Sale! Get "Among the Glimmering Flowers", "Feather by Feather and Other Stories", "A Promise Broken" and "Rapunzel, Rapunzel" for $0.99 each from December 15 to January 10! Happy holidays!

Happy holidays, everyone!

Because it’s cold and grey where I live and it’s time for the holiday season, I figured it was the perfect time to have a small(ish) sale! From December 15 to January 10, I’ve put four of my books up for sale at $0.99 each (or the equivalent in your local currency insofar as I can control it).

That means discounts ranging between 66% and a whopping 86%! WOW! If you’ve been looking to snap up some of my ebooks for cheap, for yourself or as a gift, this is the perfect time to dive in as these offer up a great selection of my work! Let’s take a look at the ones on sale with buy links and everything for the easiest shopping experience!

Among the Glimmering Flowers – From $5.99 now $0.99! Get it here!

Felicity feels stifled by her parents’ protective nature. She’s the crown princess, yet she’s not even allowed to care for her own pony. Her life consists of nothing but rules and permissions. All she wants is a little more freedom.

Horse-friend is happy to have a roof over his head, a job that he likes and food in his stomach every day. He never expected to run into the crown princess as she tries to sneak out of the castle. Or to get caught up in her clumsy attempts at having an adventure.

It isn’t long before trouble, rather than adventure, finds both of them, setting them on a course that will change their lives — and the fate of the kingdom — forever.

Among the Glimmering Flowers is the story of how two lovers first became friends and the first book in a series exploring a demisexual/allosexual romantic relationship. Readers looking for a low-conflict, cosy story should enjoy this novel.

Feather by Feather and Other Stories – From $5.99 now $0.99! Get it here!

Feather by Feather and Other Stories is a varied collection of over 40 stories and poems. In these stories, demons struggle with their nature (and bake biscuits); a young girl faces a witch in search of the bobble hat that will save her Great-Aunt; a steam engine attempts the impossible; a student finds a book that may spell the death of her; catastrophe strikes Nightshadow and his people, testing their faith in the Stars; a mermaid learns that life above the sea offers far more than princes; ghosts howl their stories at passersby; an asexual teenager struggles with relationships and trust; and Phee… Well. Phee is Phee.

Lynn E. O’Connacht’s first collection is a kaleidoscope of tales, featuring folktale and fairytale retellings, superhero fiction, science fiction, realistic fiction and more. Sensitive, imaginative, heart-wrenching, gentle, witty, candid, and engrossing Feather by Feather and Other Stories is a powerful and enchanting selection. It also includes an explanation on how to write your own triple sestina, a self-interview and brief commentary on every piece published in the collection.

A Promise Broken – From $4.99 now $0.99! Get it here!

It’s a rainy day when four-year-old Eiryn has to say goodbye to her mother. Scared, confused and unwilling to do so, Eiryn tries to summon water to stop the funeral from happening and her life falls apart. Her uncle is always sad and busy; she keeps hearing her mother’s voice asking her to follow; her best friend keeps getting into fights; and some of her classmates hate her for existing.

Arèn never wanted children, but he’s desperate to protect his niece from his people’s extreme caution regarding magic and other races. Kerisaoina children aren’t capable of using it and his niece is no exception. Despite being only half-kerisaoina, Eiryn is already starting to show that she’ll be one of her generation’s most talented magic-singers and those who don’t approve of her existence are trying to take advantage of a young girl’s grief.

Eiryn is determined to make her uncle happy, but it’s hard to make other people happy when you have to struggle through the day yourself. She’ll find a way, though. She’s promised. And even if her mother won’t keep her word Eiryn will keep hers.

She’ll make everything right again.

You’ll see.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel – From $2.99 now $0.99! Get it here!

You can’t be Rapuzel forever.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel is a collection of poems, a fairy tale of modern life, growing up and falling in love. Or not.

Divided into five different parts, Rapunzel, Rapunzel explores the impact of anxiety and bullying, and the strength of love, for others and for ourselves. It muses on the difficulty of discovering who we are and how the masks we wear affect our lives and relationships.

Most of all, Rapunzel, Rapunzel is about embracing all aspects of yourself, even the ones you’re scared to show, and finding strength in who you are as a person.

And that’s it! That’s the books on sale this winter from December 15 to January 10! Get them while they’re cheap! I, of course, think they make wonderful holiday reading, but I’m totally biased.

That said, if you’re not sure what to pick… I can try to help out! Let me give you my totally not biased (disclaimer: they may be totally biased) recommendations on what to get if you’re not sure which book is right for you. (Or get multiple ones! Together they’re $3.96, so that’s four whole books – cumulatively over 225K – for less than the price of one!)

I’d recommend Feather by Feather and Other Stories if you’re looking to get a good sense of my range. That’s got a little bit of everything, so there’s bound to be something you enjoy in there. It’s got short stories, novelettes, poetry, fantasy, contemporary, dark fantasy, science fiction…

If you’re more of a novel reader than a short story reader (hi! I know that feeling!), I’d go for Among the Glimmering Flowers or A Promise Broken. Both stand on their own perfectly fine.

If you like your fantasy with fae and a ton of social commentary and just a touch of snark, I’d recommend Among the Glimmering Flowers the strangers-to-friends beginnings of a friends-to-lovers tale that I’m aiming to release in 2019 or 2020.

If you like your fantasy deliciously subtle and immersive as well as very very queer, I’d recommend A Promise Broken. Featuring my tiny child protagonist and her trans aroace uncle deuteragonist. With political machinations and child shenanigans, it focuses on family and community. Be warned of a potential cute overload!

If you like verse novels and poetry instead, Rapunzel, Rapunzel is a delightful short introduction to my verse novels. It is, technically, not part of the Fairytale Verses series, but it does retell a fairytale. As you probably gathered from the title already.

Again, happy holidays! May you find something wonderful and delightful to read!

December 2018 Goals

Posted December 2, 2018 by Lynn E. O'Connacht in Miscellaneous / 0 Comments

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Get ready for 2019

Livereact to Lost Song

Livereact to Regal Academy

I Want to Read:

2 books

I Want to Write

At least 1 chapter of DemiPrincess per week and keep the momentum going

Look! December goals. I don’t really have anything much to say about them. It’s December. December is always the month in which everything wraps up, so that’s my main focus. Wrap up the things I’ve promised to do in this year and keep up the momentum I had going with some other things. And that’s it!

Some December-specific notes: Because it IS now December and we’re ramping up to the end of the year, I’ve got more sporadic posts than I usually do to wrap the year up. Like the newsletters and weekly round-ups, I’m revamping how I tackle these completely, so I expect to take some time to sort that out. Point in case: We were gifted a paper 2019 calendar and I promptly assigned it “Keep my posting schedule sorted out” duty. And wow do I want to make changes.

That means December is going to be quite busy with regular posts. I aim to watch 4 episodes of Lost Song every Monday evening and a whopping 8 of Regal Academy every Wednesday. That way I can wrap up this year’s livereacts before the Christmas holidays arrive. On top of that, the Thief Let’s Play will continue in its Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday slots until it concludes and then… Either we’ll have more clarity on Article 13 and how the EU proposes to undo its ridiculously stringent copyright laws that basically do unspeakable things to creativity in the EU and I… won’t be able to do more LPs – which is a shame, I enjoy sharing how horrible I am at games – or I need to drastically revamp the schedule to make it work better. (I’m thinking 1.5-2 hour recordings on Saturday as that lets me keep the speed of going through the game.)

And beyond that… Well, I’m still working on that. Just as December is “Let’s reflect on the past year” month, January is “Let’s look forward to this year” month and you can look forward to some January-specific posts. The new posting schedule won’t properly start until around February or mid-March, depending on whether you want to count the start as being when the Let’s Play concludes or earlier.

I’ll chat more about the plans for 2019 when it’s nearer the end of the month, though. These are mainly the ones that affect posting in December specifically.

Alas, that life remains much the same. I got news on the essay on aces in fiction that I sold! As I’m writing this there is, sadly, a good chance it won’t appear until 2019. Which is sad and disappointing, but everyone working on it is committed to making it the best essay it can be, so I promise it will be worth the wait.

Although if between now and then so much happens that the conclusions are now fundamentally skewed (not happening unless we get dropped into a version of earth where asexuality was known and celebrated since medieval times without noticing), I will be over the moon.

Beyond that life continues apace. The big BIG thing that happened is that I’ve finally officially set up shop as a freelance editor and sensitivity reader. :O (This is terrifying. The only thing I genuinely like about freelancing is the flexibility, but the hunt for office hours that pay me enough to, idk, live continues. Well, and the work itself. I love the work itself.)