Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author

@lynnstrong

Addicted to words. Used to be paid by the column-inch. (You can probably still tell.) Gleeful flipper of all the tropes. Queer, disabled, neurospicy thespian. Indie author of Chai and Cat-tales. (About to commit a trilogy.)

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Apr 27

me: bad headache, sick day me: ...I maybe could have background worked on book duties through the ouch if it were not for the tornado sirens also me: ....do I actually have the stability to evacuate to the basement? the forecast: URK I think I am not getting any work done today

A weather forecast with an unnervingly sharp line between greens I'm used to seeing and blazing magenta I have never seen on a forecast before but which looks Bad

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Apr 13

💙📚🌈📚🪐📚🌶 proof copy just arrived! I have zero idea whether this photo is in focus, I'm relying on the cell phone here, but in Priye's words: BOOK BOOK ALL BOOK MINE

Chai and Charmcraft's print proof: A chonker of a book on a soft gray sweater

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Apr 12

💙📚🌈📚🌶️📚💕 #solarpunk meets #cozyfantasy with @cquince.bsky.social : 🤴🏽A kind middle-aged Middle Eastern gentleman who 🫖 loves his home’s culture and def. chai 🧸 needs a break from all the thou-shalts 🐈 adores the thousand cats of his city 🚋 eee solar powered cat tram! lynnstrong.com/2026/04/12/c...

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Apr 7

💙📚😻 was reminded of both the OG freeware tech build under @karrynnagel.bsky.social 's Cozy the Day Away sale and the catfeels of "When Violence Actually Is the Answer, by Someone's Adorable Cat." hey #cozyfantasy authors! Want to add your actual book? cozyfantasysale.promisepress.org by 5/1!

A shiny-eyed black cat strikes a dramatic pose under a sparkling rainbow labeled "Violence." An imaginary book title reads "When Violence Actually Is The Answer, by Someone's Adorable Cat."

The blurb says "If you ask a cat what to do, 'break things,' 'knock things over,' and/or 'murder something' are usually as high on the 'fun' list as 'sleep adorably in the most inconvenient place possible.' This book will investigate Why Are Cats Like That, as soon as the author manages to extract the cat from the warm laptop keyboard yet again." Imaginary links and metadata tags follow.

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Mar 14

I think this one screenshot (taken by a trusted friend on a server I respect) manages to get all the way into hell:

In which Meta AI argues that Pi Day (3/14) in 2026 is actually Valentine's Day (2/14) because something something leap year something marketing something hallucinogens in the stolen water something

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Mar 14

💙📚🌈📚🪐📚💕📚 Go pick up Apprentice's Luck, Tal is adorable and K. L. Noone is a fantastic writer! And if you're looking for an aro ace cozy fantasy, Haroun and the Study of Mischief is also on sale today. (Come for the weaponized fiber arts, stay for the puppy fluff?) queeeyourbookshelf.com

99 cents for Haroun and the Study of Mischief: Two Very Good Boys might like to fight crime... if there has been a crime other than their fashion sense. "Sometimes you need a romp. This line slayed me, for all the times I've felt overwhelmed and still kept going: 'We are who we had available.'" --Rachel Unger on Bsky. https://lynnstrong.com/books/haroun

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Feb 25

#writesky #indieauthors, has anyone else tripped over people selling used copies of your book on ebay *for more than it costs new anywhere?* I don't even know what to do with this information except to point to the people who are selling it new for less money and make "what the" faces?

An ebay listing for Chai and Cat-tales that costs significantly more than it costs new?

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Feb 22

I've also got a book of cozy fantasy novellas. There's a Cinderella twist where an ace woman dreams of a prince bc she wants a job in his library, a nonverbal kitten yowling about words and soap, and a priest who wants everyone to get a festival meal, even the mice: lynnstrong.com/books/chai-a...

Chai and Cat-tales: Three magical Middle Eastern cozy fantasy novellas by Lynn Strong

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Feb 3

Today's #WIPSnips and interspecies miscommunication: Being catfolk, Hira thinks that human "depravity" means "enjoying horrible things like water all over you." But it's going to be easier than she thinks to persuade these traveling priests that a bath sounds nice! #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Without the lure of either food or anything resembling coin, she wasn't sure how far depravity alone would get her with a flock of good priests who so eagerly fed kittens.
Still, she'd taught Ashar and Kalyani nearly everything the two of them knew about throwing themselves into a venture headlong, twisting about midair, landing approximately on their feet, and looking like they'd meant to do that all along. They weren't bad at it, for humans. But Hira was confident she was better. After all, she'd been born with it.
She was going to dangle human-style fetish-lures in front of the priests of Upaja, with absolute confidence. They could not possibly be offended that she thought they were depraved enough to be tempted. And if they were offended, she would not apologize; a cat was always correct, and a cat always meant to do whatever had just happened.

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Feb 2

This is the cozy fantasy edition of perishing: when a prophet doesn't even need prophecy to know exactly how his friend is going to tease him about a long-hidden teenaged crush, and he needs to head that off at the pass right quick! #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Najra took a breath.
Faraj didn't even need to be a prophet to know he absolutely could not survive whatever was going to come out of her mouth, regardless of whether it had to do with his youthful wistings or with a charming companion of night-blooming jasmines whose hand might lack rings.
"No!" he yelped. "I mean yes, I mean of course not, I mean— all of the ways they could read that are— um."

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Feb 1

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Feb 1

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Feb 1

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Feb 1

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Feb 1

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Feb 1

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Feb 1

💙 📚 🪐 📚 🌶️hey #romancelandia here's 90 free books of all shapes, sizes, orientations, and/or shifters! 🤩 books.bookfunnel.com/massivefreeb...

Massive Romance Book Fair: Paranormal, Fantasy, and Sci Fi Free for a Limited Time

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Feb 1

💙 📚 🪐 📚 🌶️ Political Intrigue and Romantasy from now til Feb. 15 books.bookfunnel.com/politicalint...

Free Political Intrigue Romantasy from 16th Jan to 15th Feb

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Jan 30

#writesky dilemmas me, writing Haroun: okay I know food is a huge part of cozy fantasy but 50 pages of recipes MIGHT be overkill on a 375 page book, get down to 10% my intentions: write <50 pages of recipes for Charmcraft my outcome: write 500 pages of book ...okay 10% achieved? BUT. SELF. REALLY.

Chai and Charmcraft: A magical Middle Eastern cozy fantasy by Lynn Strong. Contains nearly absurd quantities of kittens and entirely absurd quantities of recipes. Not sure whether to say "I'm sorry" or "You're welcome."

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Jan 26

💙📚🪐📚🌶️📚🌈 #cozyfantasy Want an #ARCReader #reviewcopy ? 🪶 Prince Charming would rather audit a dragon than slay it 🥰 Mature midlife MM romance 🔥 Loved as you are, no makeovers needed! 🐱 SO many kittens 🪄 Never vex the Archivist; she knows All The Hexes 📚 Priye’s #Lifegoals : BOOK BOOK ALL BOOK MINE

Chai and Charmcraft: A Magical Middle Eastern Cozy Fantasy by Lynn Strong

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Jan 22

(tiptoes in) Art by the amazing Maasyme, Faraj aka Prince Squishmallow by me? 🙏💕 (I think he'd make an adorable chibi)

A shy round middle aged brown man with silvering curls and a soft beard, anxiously holding a tea glass and saucer, wearing lavishly gilded Mughal Era silks

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Dec 30

📚💙📚♿️📚🌈📚🪐📚 eeeeeeee! @maryrobinettekowal.com , thank you forthe opportunity to squeak about My Favorite Bit of Haroun and the Study of Mischief! 😼🤝🐶💕 maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-f...

Haroon and the Study of Mischief by Lynn Strong: A grey saluki and a black cat peer curiously around the edges of a gold-inlaid arch, in front of the deep blue silhouette of a cityscape at night with a sparkling trail of magic.

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Dec 16

I personally feel like Cat-tales offers more Asexual and Aromantic rep, and Haroun offers more Disability rep. There's some of both in both, but they do lean a bit based on who's the main characters. And if you feel like my books have earned your vote, I'd be honored.

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Dec 16

💙 📚 🪐 📚 ♿ I'm thrilled & honored that my cozy fantasy books have been nominated for several categories in the #IndieInkAwards, including "Asexual and Aromantic Representation" and "Disability Representation by a Disabled Author!" Voting is open now to Dec 31!

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Dec 14

wow - Chai and Cat-tales has made it into the top 50 LGBTQ+ Fantasy bestsellers on Amazon thanks to Casey's book blast! 😻 (It's still 99 cents through tonight, going back to the usual price after that.) (one little cozy fantasy author is making squeaky sounds out here in the snow belt ❤️) 💙📚🌈📚♿📚🪐

Books 40, 41 and 42 on the Amazon LGBTQ+ Fantasy Bestsellers list: Feral (The Wrong Alpha Book 2), Chai and Cat-tales, and Cocoa and Classes.

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Dec 6

For the humans on this thread (if you are a cat who has nabbed a device, the fish are somewhere to the left, look away a moment)

Three cats stare rapidly through the chicken wire and pine 2x4 cage an enterprising human has built around their Christmas tree

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Nov 21

Me: interested in a portable wireless monitor for a Mac mini RAID for file backup and media serving Amazon, helpfully: The Pornitor Me: (still wheezing and scrubbing laugh tears from my face) Lessons in why you should ask a native speaker whether your wordsmash brand name is Unfortunate

Wireless Technology in Portable Monitor
Built-in battery and no cables required, keeping your desk clean
PORNITOR
(with a very gray looking and not at all questionable laptop next to a wireless monitor and a black and gray cell phone, all of which are displaying very vanilla images)

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Oct 10

Hey #booksky #cozyfantasy readers - Need some more mischievous romps in your life? Chai and Cat-tales will be on sale for 99c & Haroun and the Study of Mischief is 30% off through #Hearthcon. Bonus: Hypoallergenic ebooks don't shed fur on your clothes 😸🐶 cozyfantasysale.promisepress.org

Haroun and the Study of Mischief by Lynn Strong

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Oct 5

I am a horrible queer who has been thrown out of a "sweet and clean" promo because obviously nothing queer could be sweet or adorable or-- --Look at this kitten's face and say that to her, I dare anyone. lynnstrong.com/books/chai-a...

Chai and Cat-tales: Three magical Middle Eastern cozy fantasy novellas by Lynn Strong. Featuring a ridiculously adorable brindle kitten with the most hopeful little kitten face and big shiny eyes.

Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author@lynnstrong· Oct 3

Making snerking noises at the notion of #kaijuapproved nosh and wondering exactly how large that container would need to be for us to have actual #truthinadvertising