Lynda Clark

@lyndac.bsky.social

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Writer, reader, gamer. Still mostly bogling to Aswad. https://wouldyouliketochangethedifficultysetting.wordpress.com/ Any pronouns. No alt text? No follow, no matter how cool & interesting you are. There will be swears.

An ad for my forthcoming novel, Strange Talk. The cover is yellow with a red and purple lava lamp on the left and purple and red speech bubbles on the right with the title and my name. The following phrases surround the image: weird girl lit; unconventional romance; from award winning author of Beyond Kidding; darkly funny; found family
It's a picture of me, but my hairstyle, glasses and facial expression are exactly like the actor Simon Bird- gawky and poised as if about to say: "Actually, the Battle of the Bulge was in 1944. The Battle of the BOYNE was in 1690."
A mass of bees gathered together on a green metal railing in a huge lump.
On the itch page of 108 Suitors, ithacan leaves the comment "Absolute cinema".
Mark Bowles' How Do People Stay the Same, a plain black novel with white text, head up against a metallic background.
I (a white woman with long brown hair streaked with silver, wearing a red and black checked shirt) talk about my forthcoming book beside my fridge. The fridge "pisses" into a glass with its cold water dispenser. My horrified face gives way to the cover of Strange Talk which is brightly coloured yellow, red and purple with a Lava Lamp in the same colours on it.
The cover of Dreaming in Quantum (an invisible woman wrapped in a billowing silk scarf) against a damask background and surrounded by the titles of several stories: Dead Men Don't Count, Clockwork Men and Clockwork Dogs and Frogs, Total Transparency, Ghillie's Mum and The Whisky Situation.
Just the cutest black and white springer spaniel you've ever seen giving me his best Princess Di look.
A black and white springer spaniel looking out of the back door at the heavy rain. His ears are drooping in disappointment at my inability to control the weather.
Heather listens intently as Heba tells us about her ghostly experiences on a hospital ward.
Text in a series of speech bubbles surrounded by icons of household objects: Amie has always heard things other people can't. Her rickety old house is alive with voices. The door icon zooms from the bottom of the screen to the centre and text reads: Then there's Door, Amie's closest friend, whose voice has abruptly gone quiet. Cover reveal: A Lava Lamp with speech bubbles that read Strange Talk and Lynda Clark Underneath is the release date, 5th November 2026.
The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water from the terrifying 1970s public information film to dissuade children from playing in weirs. He looks like the grim reaper and has his arms folded and his back to the camera, standing next to a No Swimming sign and surveying the water.
A small, bright rainbow with a larger, fainter rainbow above. Beneath there are grassy fields and a river and in the foreground the post of a wooden bridge.
Fairlight Books signs Lynda Clark’s ‘wonderfully weird’ second novel Rights May 18, 2026 by Lauren Brown Then there's a photo of me, a white woman with a shaved head and the caption "Lynda Clark". Underneath, text reads: Fairlight Books has acquired the “wonderfully weird, darkly funny” second novel by award-winning author Lynda Clark.
Article on Bookbrunch: Fairlight Books buys ‘wonderfully weird, darkly funny’ novel by Lynda Clark Friday, 15th May 2026 Her novel Strange Talk is 'a high-concept, genre-bending novel about unconventional love, dysfunctional families and sentient household appliances,' coming this November
Stack of books on a blue pillow- Rosewater by Tade Thompson, Moonflower by Bitter Karella, Some Body Like Me by Lucy Lapinska, The Book of Love by Kelly Link and Planetfall by Emma Newman
Justice Smith being interviewed about his role in Dungeons and Dragons and explaining how he likes to keep VFX on their toes by doing extremely fast and intricate hand gestures to represent spellcasting. My text reads: Me having a great time doing stupid typographical shit.
Courier headline: Convicted domestic abuser and former Kasabian front man Tom Meighan will perform in Dundee
THE 2025/26 GBP SHORT STORY PRIZE LONGLIST Fire! Fire! Or, Ascension by Kate Ansell All Dogs’ Hearts by Kate Barry Two Roosters by Lucy Campbell Head Babies by Lynda Clark Extended Play by Alan Gray A Devil’s Alphabet by Annie Hayter Clean Sheet by Kinneson Lalor Making An Album With Morrissey by David McGrath Pulp by Evie Quet All About Cindy by Chris Williams
The Grandchildren by Megan Taylor. The cover is a children's play park under a brooding sky.
A black and white spaniel on a blue sofa, half snuggled under a blanket. His eyes are barely open and his lip is caught on his teeth. He looks like he's been on a four day bender and is now regretting his choices.
A black and white springer spaniel lying on a red dog bed with a grey tartan stripe. He looks despondent, as if he has suffered a great injustice.
Current Novel WIP Agent submissions: 80 Requests for full: 2 Personalised rejections: 2 Form rejections: 12 No response: 64 Indie Press Submissions: 11 Personalised Rejections: 1 No Response: 9 Acceptances: 1!
A black and white springer spaniel lying on his grey fluffy bed. He's completely flat like a wrung out flannel and looks absolutely unenthusiastic about the idea of a walk.
A white temporary structure that closely resembles a coroner's tent pitched across 3 parking spaces in a residential area.
Two arched windows edged with stained glass. A very intricate mosaic floor. A flower display that is literally about five feet tall.
A picture of Anya Chalotra looking devastatingly beautiful, with the caption "Casting director Sophie Holland says Anya Chalotra's casting as Yennefer of Vengerberg in Netflix's adaptation of The Witcher was intended to "challenge" beauty standards.
Lindz, Dave, Erin & Morag together on stage beneath a screen with their pictures and the title collaborative writing
Times Education Headline & subheadings: Rise of EDI focus in UKRI grants ‘endangers R&D support’ Increase in projects featuring ‘progressive discourse’ likely to fuel criticism that academia is too left wing, study warns. Published on November 14, 2025 Last updated November 14, 2025 Jack Grove Twitter: @jgro_the
One end of the rainbow. It's erupting up into the cloudy sky from between houses. Beneath is the beach and my dog, a black and white springer, snuffling right at the end of the rainbow. Is he the pot of gold? Probably not, he's a dickhead.
It's Assane Diop (a tall black man in a flat cap and trench coat) from the Netflix TV series Lupin standing on a rooftop overlooking Paris.
Driving away from Càrn Asoda. In the distance, the mountains look misty and magical.
A hand holding a book, which is A Good Year by Polis Loizou. The cover has a turquoise frame around a stylised watercolour of a clawed, hairy hand. A vine loops around its index finger and circles the entire cover. Where the leaves are furthest from the hairy arm, they are green and lush, but the nearer they are to it, the more brown and withered they are.
The menu in bluesky, listing options for Explore, Chat, Notifications, Feeds, Lists, Profile & at the bottom, Settings which I've circled in red and added a big red arrow.
Adelaide, a young black girl, her hair in bunches, wearing an oversized black t-shirt that looks like dress. She's standing on a beach and the sand is dark and the sky is black but our eye is drawn to her because she stands in the centre of two sweeping halves of a roller coaster, illuminated in orange lights in the distance.
A grassy field. In the distance, smudged light barely visible through thick grey fog, under a heavy greyer sky.
A black and white springer lying on his bed looking absolutely forlorn.
Lots of red roofed houses lining a harbour, viewed from a hillside. In the foreground, there's foliage and overhead, the clouds are heavy and silver.
The eyeball alien from Alien:Earth. He's basically an eyeball on tentacles who inserts himself into other animals, replacing one of their actual eyes. In this instance, he's in a sheep. You can tell because its left eye is twice the normal size and dripping blood.
A black and white springer, unrepentant in a shallower part of the river, drinking water as if nothing happened and everything is chill.
Badger, a black and white spaniel with his paws up on a radiator. He's wearing a black dog coat which has a bat's head as a hood (but is currently rolled down) and blue patterned wings.
Mallika Sarabhai, an Indian woman, performing onstage.
My Narrative Futures t-shirt designed by my cool as heck MSc students.
Ludin Links beach. The sky is very blue and the sea is darker but still bright. The wet sand looks like a mirror with the sunlit rocks providing a gilt frame.
Shell Bay beach, the sand rippled by the outgoing tide. The sky is bright blue and in the distance there's a tall and craggy hill.
An idiot black and white springer spaniel barking madly at a field of hay bales.
Linked in post which reads: "How do you hold a spoon?" I start every interview with this. Most candidates visibly sweat. Only 0.00001% can answer confidently. Spoons are a mirror. They reflect emotional intelligence, resilience, and untapped sales potential. People often ignore this. They focus on 'experience' and 'results:' Think deeper. Every spoon tells a story. A trembling spoon = fear of KPIs. A tight grip = future CEO. Two hands = potential for greatness ;o, next time you interview.: Forget the resume. Forget the experience. Ask about the spoon. Remember you will die.
A very happy looking spaniel sitting on bright green grass in front of a vividly colourful flowerbed with a palm tree as its centrepiece.
A black and white springer spaniel in a red harness sitting in front of a waterfall and a river with white water rapids, surrounded by trees.
A scene from one of the Nolan Batmans - the one with Bane? Anyway, Bane (large muscular) is facing off against a mocap actor who is tiny and wearing a bright pink onesie with a hood. The little guy is swaggering, unfazed. Over Bane, text says: University docking 50% of my pay for the "marking and assessment boycott" Over the little dude it says: "Me having spent half my life living off eggs on toast and super noodles."
Tumblr post by energyprison: Any idiot can like something that's good. It takes a real genius to like things that suck ass.
A pale green card with dark brown etchings. The title is Narrative Futures 24-25 and below are tons of awesome drawings - a hand drawing the world, a cloud with a cute face, a duck, a seagull, a dinosaur, various notebooks and neat little handwritten notes, some sheep, a chicken, a guitar, a Highland cow, a hillside, some leaves, a dog and a self-portrait.
Monsoon the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2025 edited by Karen Jones and Cheryl Markosky. The cover is a semi-abstract landscape of red hills with blotchy green and orange bushes and a swirling dark blue sky dotted with similarly blotchy grey clouds.
Contrary to popular belief, the canyon does have an echo, it's just that the particular acoustics of the rock makes it difficult to discern in some weather conditions.
A black and white springer spaniel wearing a black baseball cap and giving extreme side eye as if he is WAY too cool for school.
Golden sand with lots of driftwood strewn about. There's a row of green rocks which gives way to black rocks. In the distance a dark grey sea is visible and above the sky is white with brooding grey clouds.
A black and white spaniel in the distance, trotting closer. He's in the middle of expansive green fields and sweeping hills. There are storm clouds gathering overhead, but for now it's brilliantly sunny. This feels like a metaphor for something, although I couldn't say what...
The scene takes place aboard a luxusious private jet. Dee and Mac are visible in the background but the foreground is dominated by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. Paul looks shocked as Cranston looks over him menacingly, saying: Maybe being the front man for an alcohol business places your head so far out in front of you that you dont even realise that your neck is exposed anoiugh to be lopped off by a public so thirsty to taste the blood of greedy celebrities.
The Dennis sex doll from Always Sunny. It's exactly how it sounds, but probably more hyperreal than you'd care to imagine. Frank's dialogue reads: He's staring right at me.
3 panels from Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Top: Mac & Charlie are at a booth in Paddy's Pub, facing Cricket, played by David Hornsby. Mac has pen and paper and is studying the paper closely. Mac: Let's go through the checklist. Um, crucifix, holy water... Middle: The same scene, although Mac is now looking to Cricket for confirmation as Charlie says: Yeah, we got all the stuff, we got straps, we got everything, man. Listen, what's the plan? Bottom: 4 men in plaid shirts sit on barstools. Their target is the largest guy on the far right of the line. Charlie's VO: We gonna bum rush this guy from behind or what?