Lyssa Chiavari's Blog, page 4

YA Scavenger Hunt, Featuring Kate McLaughlin

Welcome to the YA Scavenger Hunt for Fall 2020! I’m so excited to be participating again, and to be a part of Team Red! For those of you who might not be familiar with it, YASH is a bi-annual event that was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! On this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hu...

Fall news!

I’ve got some exciting stuff going on this week, so I wanted to give you all a heads up. First: Overmorrow Releases This Thursday You may have seen this on social media, but if not: I am in a new anthology that is releasing this Thursday, October 1! As mentioned previously, this is the hopepunk sci-fi anthology edited by my friends Jon Garett and Richard Walsh. My short story, “Being Tamika,” is a quietly optimistic solarpunk story with a heavy focus on family, about a girl whose life is changed...

Summer Status Update

It’s been a while since I’ve updated here, hasn’t it? How have all of you been holding up? 2020 has been… quite a year. I think today’s Wizard of Id strip summarizes it quite well: (Also, speaking of comics, alert: Cathy is back. This is not a drill, Cathy is back. Or, as she put it, b-aack!) Anyway. I have alluded to this to a certain degree over on Dreamwidth, but after seeming like I was handling things okay for the first part of the pandemic, around mid-May I started… not handling things ver...

An alternate scene from NEW WORLD

Happy Valentine’s Day! This year I’m focusing on bringing you the conclusion to The Iamos Trilogy, and that means I’ve been spending a lot of time with my favorite couple from all the books I’ve ever written: Henry and Tamara. They emerged as a couple in my brain so early on in the writing of Fourth World that at times the only thing that kept me going while writing the first book was the knowledge that I’d get to write Different Worlds next. (It also made writing the Isaak/Tamara scenes…...

Check out the newest I Heart Lesfic Megasale!

I Heart Lesfic is holding one of its seasonal megasales this week, with the theme “Love is in the Air,” for Valentine’s Day! Dozens of books with a f/f romance (any genre, but the requirement was that it have a romantic subplot, so keep that in mind!) are on sale this week, includingCheerleaders from Planet X! I am especially excited for some of the newer sci-fi and fantasy romances available, such as Witching Moon by Poppy Woods, which looks right up my alley. Find all the titles on sale...

Interview with DAWNFALL creator RoAnna Sylver

Once again, it’s been a while! I actually had had aspirations of something other than A Touch of Magic releasing this year, but, predictably, my health had other ideas. But there are definitely things in the works for 2020. In the meantime, one of my friends has a new thing out now that I think you’ll all enjoy very much! One week ago today, fellow Kraken Collective author RoAnna Sylver celebrated the release of their brand new game/interactive novel, Dawnfall, through Heart’s Choice, the...

National Coming Out Day 2019: An Announcement

This post is a bit personal, and is probably the sort of thing I would ordinarily share on my Dreamwidth rather than here, but since I’ve been so open about my identity on my social media profiles and on this website for so long, I wanted to share it here so that everyone would see it. Five years ago on National Coming Out Day, a friend of mine came out as asexual, which gave me the courage to accept my own ace identity. Now, five years later, I’ve decided that it’s finally time to embrace th...

Cover reveal: A Touch of Magic

The cover for A Touch of Magic, the next YA anthology from Snowy Wings Publishing, has been revealed! As mentioned previously, I have a couple of stories in this one that I’m looking forward to sharing with you all! Check out the cover and learn more below! Let us put a spell on you. 7 Authors. 10 Stories. Crafted with potions, curses, and fairy dust, each one of them is infused with just a touch of magic. In this Anthology, Snowy Wings Publishing opens doors into worlds of the fantastical—st...

A bonus story for A Touch of Magic + One World blurb

More news! An Extra Story in A Touch of Magic One of the authors who planned to participate in the upcoming anthology A Touch of Magic had to pull out, so I was able to submit an extra story for the book! So there will be two stories (both fairy tale retellings) from me in the collection. The bonus story, “Witch,” is a spin on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid from the Sea Witch’s perspective. I know there have been a lot of Sea Witch retellings recently, but most of them seem to d...

News!

New Short Story Announcement! At the beginning of the year, I wasn’t anticipating to have any new releases under this pen name for 2019, but the year has proven me wrong! I’m so excited to announce that the upcoming anthology A Touch of Magic from Snowy Wings Publishing will include my story “The Cursed Tower”! This story is a Rapunzel retelling with a Gothic twist and I’m very excited to share it with you all. (And no, I didn’t get duped into editing this one. That burden privilege belongs t...