K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author

@karenlykkebo.com

2861 Followers 274 Following

Author of fantasy & horror 🖤 Socialist, humanist, naturalist, physiotherapist. Confused Scandinavian. Depresso-bean. Punk-rock girl with flowers in her hair. She/her 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈 www.karenlykkebo.com

gravel path along an open field, forest in the background. blue sky with white summer clouds.
Ebook cover of drowned hearts. Hands reaching up to the surface. A faint outline of an anatomical heart in background. Surrounded by fall flowers and pumpkin.
Paperback of Bear My Heart, green cover with a bear silhouette and mountains. Held over a patch of yellow and purple wildflowers. Two butterflies (orange and black, red with eyes) sit in the flowers.
Orange and Black butterfly on purple flower
ebook cover of Heir to The Sun surrounded by yellow roses and pink flower petals, white lily. Cover illustration: girl in a blue dress holding a sword looking through a blue-ish portal
Forest path through pine trees and bilberries
Two mason jars one with a light green jam (gooseberry) and one with dark purple (blueberry)
Ebook cover in green with the outline of a bear in the middle with mountains and a moon within the body. Surrounded by blue corn flowers, candles and a big pine cone
Picture of a garden harvest. Carrots, potatoes, black currant in a bucket, yellow and green zuchini, garlic and radishes.
Seagull meme with pane one like it’s inhaling and pane two screeching with red glowing eyes. Pane one says “as we go” and pane 2: “down down down the road down the witches road”
Calico cat curled up like a shrimp against my body
tied bundles of lavender held in my hand
Six different bundles of lavender on a kitchen towel
Bowl full of black currant berries on a scale reading 2476g
Trope map for Dirt You Shall Become. Cover in the middle, white font title, shovel and pink peony in the background. Text: “A wood chipper not being used for wood… Spooky summer gardens, sinister toads, zombie deer? Zombie deer, lovecraftien horror, creepy gnomes, an evil compost, based on true stories, weeds you can’t get rid of.”
An big bouquet of lavender
Burned/browned meringue on tart
Orange drink with a green straw standing on a wooden table. Parasol and awning in background. Garden
Blueberry pie in foreground, fan standing right behind it
Cover showing a dark, foggy forest and a deer skull transparent in front. Text: Vätter Child. Karen Lykkebo. Folkloric, horror-esque short story.
Green and yellow zuchinni held over the ground
Peach hollyhock with a bumblebee in the middle
Dark outline of trees at the bottom, evening blue sky with pink streaks of clouds
Cover of Winds of Destruction. Black haired girl in swirl of wind, holding a spear. Text: Winds of Destruction, The Palace of Winds book 1. "The Wind cannot be killed."
Two bowls and big red strainer each filled with bilberries (blueberries but the right kind)
2 pane meme with a black man looking happy then sad. Pane 1 with happy face and the text "you pick 2.5kg of bilberries". Pane 2, sad face and text "you have to clean 2.5 kg of bilberry"
Trope map for Bear My Heart - a cozy sapphic novella. Ebook cover in green with the outline of a bear in the middle with mountains and a moon within the body. Text: "spice level: handholding (barely), neurodivergent MC's, a magical mountain, overcoming grief, sapphic romance, a bear-shifter, hermit-vibes deep in the forest, nose-booping, old dying gods.
Bucket full of blue bilberry held over bilberry bushes
Open laptop on a wooden table, green and flowering garden in the background.
Calico cat laying flat on a couch, knocked out sleeping
Cat sitting on a lap staring intensely toward a (empty) bowl of yogurt
Peach and yellow hollyhock flowers in sunshine
green veggie garden
Snippet from Murder she grew, short story in Dirt You Shall Become: Susanne really hadn’t meant to become a murderer, but on that day – that godforsaken piece-of-a-shit day – where Niels’ snores kept her up all night, her hip ached for hours, the coffee machine went up in smoke, the car blew a tire on the way to the store, the cat puked on her favorite quilt, and when she finally sat down in peace with her crochet needle, Niels stomped through the study, complaining about some inconceivable little beetle that had eaten his favorite rose – ah, well... She snapped.
Meme form the great British bake off with a contestant saying “started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon appetite” in front of a flat cake the three judges.
A painting in the floor out of its frame
Overgrown dirt patch
Pair of snow drops in resin as earrings.
Video of a cat sitting and staring straight up. Camera pans to a big moth sitting high above it.
Trope map for Bear My Heart - a cozy sapphic novella. Ebook cover in green with the outline of a bear in the middle with mountains and a moon within the body. Text: "spice level: handholding (barely), neurodivergent MC's, a magical mountain, overcoming grief, sapphic romance, a bear-shifter, hermit-vibes deep in the forest, nose-booping, old dying gods.
Overgrown dirt patch with tomato, zucchini and beets
Dirt patch the kale and pumpkin growing between weeds
Arrow chart for Heir to The Sun. Ebook cover in the middle. Pink background. Text: “no romance (and the mc’s is mad about it), talking back at a dragon, strong platonic friendships (and so many forehead kisses), a journey of self-discovery, dark themes and fun adventure, drinking games with ogres, a stand-alone (but I am writing a sequel), queer cast, adapting to a fantasy world”
The cover of Untwined by Helyna L. Clove in the same painting-like, ethereal style. It depicts a purple-pink lotus flower with a bright yellow center on a lake surface surrounded by lily pads. The pads and the water are in brighter and darker colors of golden yellow. Golden magical threads are whirling around the flower. The cover is framed by golden swirly framing art, and the title and author name are written on it also with gold.
Dark outline of airplane wing against an evening glowing sky. Lit up city below on the ground along a coastline
Wavy clouds and blue/orange pastel evening sky
A glass of coffee in front of a wild garden
Cover of Dirt You Shall Become surrounded by withering flowers of the garden and shearing scissors. Cover with a peony and a spade in the background. Title in white.
Black and white cat sleeping on a small chair
Bare legs on a sun chair watching over a pool area
Cats on balcony fence, one climbing over the other and the other biting after it tail. Momma kitty balancing on the railing
Black dropshaped earring with a skull in the middle and surrounded by flowers.
Selfie on a sunny empty beach with an island in the background
Boy from the meme “you guys are getting paid?
Momma kitty with four kittens drinking milk
Cover of The Palace of Winds, book 1-3. cover of Winds of Destruction. Black haired girl in swirl of wind, holding a spear. Cover of Winds of Desolation. Black haired girl, blue cloak billowing in wind. Standing on a cliff holding a green orb in her hand. Cover of Winds of Determination. Black haired girl in a forest surrounded by green swirls, a flame and water.
Plate of grilled fish and a cat sitting underneath the table begging
Green cover of ebook to Bear My Heart. Bear silhouette with mountains and a crescent moon inside. Flowers surrounding it.
Two kittens laying in sun resting on each other
Two kitten laying in sunny shade, one to its side and the other resting its head on the first’s stomach