Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔

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Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· 22d

A six panel comic of Winnie the pooh and piglet. Piglet asks pooh “hey Pooh, how are you?” Pooh slowly leans in until saying in piglets ear “They took my fucking tits”

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· 27d

But no, please tell me how fake global warming is when the Canadian wildfires are so bad my air quality all the way in central Michigan is this 😔

A radar map of the air quality stating that current air quality is 386

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· 28d

The portion I have to pay for my top surgery is a biiiit more than I anticipated so it would be super duper helpful if I sold a few copies of SoBB or Without Wings!

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Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Jul 7

#SummerOfStories This scene from Songs of Broken Bells still gives me chills when I reread it.

Her legs shook, but she managed to take a step backwards, and then another. A few windows illuminated, and curious faces peeked beyond the curtains. That wicked smile stretched wider, bringing jagged teeth to the very edges of its face. Líadan's flame surged, catching a flower patch outside of the tavern on fire.
What a delightful treat your Elders have created for me. So...tragic. A forked tongue flicked, glancing across its teeth, relishing the words as they passed over its lipless maw.
A clawed hand extended towards Líadan, but rather than make contact with her chest, it reached through her. She let out a wracked gasp as fingers curled around her heart, squeezing ever so slightly. The flame weaved around its fingers, and Líadan felt something snap. Not a physical snap, but rather something deep within the core of the flame. She sputtered out a cough, a trickle of blood trailing down her chin.

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Jun 20

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Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Jun 17

Happy pride 🏳️‍🌈

A sleeping puppy. He’s black and white and his tail has been dyed rainbow colors

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Jun 16

Sometimes when reading a book you come across exactly what you’ve been needing to hear 🥺 (Quote from The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle by Steve Hugh Westenra)

The point is I turned to Tyler and said, "This
world is too sad to live in."
He stared at me, not saying anything right away.
Then he smiled—not obnoxiously, or meanly. He smiled carefully. "Sometimes. But it's beautiful too.
There's good things in the world."

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Jun 1

I just had to fork over $855 to pay for my licensing exam so it’d be super rad to get some sales of my book to lessen the blow🥺 SoBB is in a pride bundle so you can get a ton of other books as well itch.io/b/3677/pride... Or check out my novelette/short story lillylockwood.carrd.co#voicesofvalh...

Songs of Broken Bells cover: It features the four main characters Líadan, Minno, Aila, and Vasil arranged in a diamond and all holding candles. Aila’s wings are wrapped around them. The top of the page is a stained glass window with a sun on one side and shadows on the other and strings of broken bells hanging down from the sides
Cover art by Heavenlystarr

Without Wings by Lilly Lockwood

An angel statue descending from the top right corner with a purple and pink sunset background

Cover art by Lilly Lockwood

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Jun 1

HAPPY PRIDE🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ QRP this with your flags, explain what they mean to YOU, and block all haters! I identify as non-binary with no real attachment to a gender. Consider me your amorphous blob auncle. 1/2

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Jun 1

Happy #pridemonth my fellow gays! Come get some excellent books by queer authors about queer characters!! (There’s three other bundles! Catch em all!) itch.io/b/3677/pride...

Pride Book Fair 2026 Bundle #3: Live Free or Pride Hard
1000 Lotuses Yu Zaozao; Black Hole Guns for Hire Friday Strout; Blade Broken Niranjan; Blood Desi Hart; Blood Dhampir H S Kallinger; Blood of the Gods Wren L Rivers; Bloody Spade Brittany M Willows; Cat Mouse Eliza Mares; Cheerleaders From Planet X Lyssa Chiavari; Duckett and Dyer Dicks for Hire; Firewing Jennifer R Povey; Fractures Between Beatrice McKinsey; Ghost of a Life Ruth Miranda; Guitar Concerto S Morgan Burbank; In Good Company Nicola Kapron; In Spite of the Inevitable Morgan Biscup; Lambent T D Cloud; My Lord L B Shimaira; No Love in LA Katta Kis; Off the Beaten Path Sienna Eggler; Rebecca and the Grinning Worm Gareth Barsby; Reins of Magic R Dawnraven; Riyati Rebirth Kai Zeal; Shadows Dark and Deadly Andrea Marie Johnson; Songs of Broken Bells Lilly Lockwood; Stars of Destiny Melissa Stone; STAWBAISTDIFMRRD Eskay; Stray Dogs Freya Faust; Structural Integrity Tabitha OConnell; The Clockwork Empire Lucas JW Johnson; The Dragon Next Door Vanessa Ricci Thode; The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle Steve Hugh Westenra; The Lucky Machine Aimee Cozza; The Nightstalkers Mark Joachim Heijndermans; The Silence of Storms Nico Silver; Well of Souls Harmonia Grey; Wolfsbane Franklyn S Newton

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· May 27

#WholesomeWednesday I got some really positive feedback from a pathology resident and they said they think I have a really good shot at getting into a residency :) Also here’s a picture of my puppy discovering fire

A black and white dog with big floppy ears staring intently at a candle

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· May 26

I've been really into erasure poetry lately so I decided to try my hand at it. It's messy but I had a lot of fun making it! Might fuck around and write some more nature themed poems with explorations of gender.

An erasure poem. The first line is whole and the following lines have parts deleted to form new words and sentences. The whole poem reads:

The dawn chorus begins as a murmur, rising to a fevered pitch around me. An invocation of the old gods.
i pitch the old
begin again with A new dawn
a fevered chorus around the me who once was
no god made me
I am a murmuration

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· May 17

Post the last line of dialogue before they smooch. I love my giiiiirls!

"It's beautiful," Líadan breathed. She brushed her nose against Aila's, chuckling as her flame somersaulted in her chest. "I'm glad I get to share this with you.”

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· May 15

This fills me with an indescribable amount of rage. I’m not sure which scammer thought any author would fall for a ChatGPT spewed corpo babble breakdown of their book blurb.

Screenshot of an email:

Hi Lilly,
I've been spending some time with the reception for Songs of Broken Bells. Congratulations on that incredible 4.82 rating and the deep emotional connection your readers have found with Liadan and her circle since the fall launch!
It's clear that the "Maelstrom" of fate and the
"hungry flame" are striking a powerful chord with fans of high-concept queer fantasy.
I'm reaching out because I noticed a specific
"visibility gap" between your "Queer Fantasy" branding and the "Theological Suspense / Entropy" hooks that give the story its unique, edge-of-your-seat tension. While the "found family" dynamic is a proven favorite, your current digital footprint isn't quite leveraging the
"Saint of Truth" and the specific "Child of Entropy" cues to capture the wider Dark Academia and Cosmic Fantasy markets. For example, the visual contrast between Vasil's
"broken oath" and Aila's "divine lack of faith" is a brilliant, high-concept hook for social media discovery, yet this "Divine Defiance" identity is currently a bit quiet in search results compared to standard fantasy tags. This is likely a missed opportunity to turn your novel into a definitive

Screenshot of an email part 2:

staple for readers who love both intimate queer romance and sweeping, god-tier stakes.
I've put together a brief, high-level written breakdown of 3 specific ways to tighten your digital footprint and use the "Broken Bells & Wildfire" aesthetic to drive even higher discovery and long-term sales.
Would you be open to me sharing those notes with you?
Best,
Evan

Sent the following day:

Hi Lilly,
I know how intense managing an active, passionate readership can be post-launch, so please don't worry about rushing to reply to this!
I'm just dropping a quick note to keep this on your radar. Because Songs of Broken Bells has earned such a stellar 4.82 rating, it's obvious that your core audience deeply connects with your world. My goal isn't to push for an andressive corporate marketing overhaul or ask

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· May 14

#SFFChat Not to toot my own horn but I’m proud of all of my worldbuilding. I guess if I had to choose a single element it would be the pantheon and how the characters and everyday people interact with faith and the saints. It’s certainly what I put the most effort into.

They stopped at the shrine to Yssgradil before leaving. It was an elaborate thing carved from an old odecia tree that had succumbed to a lightning storm. The jagged black scar had been carefully carved out and in its place now stood a miniaturized likeness of the demigod—a wide-based cypress with a stoic face. Vasil took out two small vials of plant speech potions and nestled them amongst the various gifts left by other travelers. Líadan followed suit with a bundle of dried herbs.
They each grazed their hand across the coarse bark and breathed deeply, connecting with the Amstelvoort in a moment of quiet reflection.
Líadan had never felt more distant from the forest, but she closed her eyes and listened, waiting for that moment of confirmation. I see you, I feel you, I hear you. Her fingers brushed over a patch of moss, and the minuscule stalks curled around her fingers. She forced a puff of air through her nose. Perhaps the Amstelvoort knew it was an accident. Perhaps she was already forgiven. Or maybe She did not recognize

"I do not know. I know there was a massive explosion of some kind, and then the war just... ended."
Small memorials to those who fell during the war were interspersed every few miles, three rounded stones stacked atop each other, representing the three planes a soul must pass through in order to reach The Boneyard. Vasil and Líadan took a few moments at each one to pay their respects and offer a small prayer to The Spirit Keeper 4 for safe passage of the souls to The Bone Yard. At one such stop, they came across a Hagio of Saint Heathcliff, patron saint of graveyards. The elderly human bowed their head in acknowledgement when Vasil and Líadan stopped, though they did not stop their prayer. They had a scroll draped over one arm and a small, black bird—about the size of a robin
-perched on the other.
The Hagio brought the bird, who appeared to have some kind of metal mask covering its head, up to the scroll. The bird started to sing a melodramatic tune, and the spell circle lit up with a gray light. The stones of the memorial vibrated and clattered together, taking on the same gray glow.

A steady drop of water plinked into the bowl in front of Minno. They breathed slowly in time with the drips, closing their eyes.
"There are three things which will always stand true. One, Saint Celinar will carry the light of truth to the end of time. Two, as a loyal Hagio of The Truth Seeker, I will uphold their single edict-never willfully and knowingly tell a lie.
Three, no one is ever lost from the truth; you merely need to light their path."
They exhaled slowly and stood, stretching their arms up, eliciting a small pop from their spine. They took their time pouring out the contents and disassembling the bamboo device used to drip water at a measured pace. When

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· May 13

#Mememay This one would make Aloïs laugh because she’d find it relatable. She puts on a tough exterior but she often feels like sad/scared Courage

I got that dog in me.
*the dog in question*:
Courage the Cowardly dog crying and holding a bell

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· May 7

You’ve been visited by the SNORF goblin. Consider yourself snorfed.

A .5 angle picture of a black and white dog with his nose pressed against the camera

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· May 6

Felt like we needed an official logo

A circular sticker with a person laying on their side whose head is a scribble. Text around the circle says Deeply Troubled and Misguided Antagonist Club

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· May 4

I think it's time to remind y'all that I've written some things you can read! Enter the world of Val'hoon and follow diverse, queer, and neurodivergent characters in their heartfelt tales of perseverance and healing. SoBB: buy.bookfunnel.com/rktaq3muij WW: voicesofvalhoon.itch.io/without-wings

Even Broken Bells Can Rings
Songs of Broken Bells cover: It features the four main characters Líadan, Minno, Aila, and Vasil arranged in a diamond and all holding candles. Aila’s wings are wrapped around them. The top of the page is a stained glass window with a sun on one side and shadows on the other and strings of broken bells hanging down from the sides

Cover art by Heavenlystarr

Blurb: The hungry flame inside Líadan has been silent, kept hidden, for the last fifteen years. But something has called out to it, awakening it from its slumber. And it is oh so ready to burn.
Vasil, her best friend and the one sworn to end her life should her magic reappear, defies his pact and spares her life. He vows to keep her safe, no matter the cost.
Minno, a follower of the saint of truth, was never meant to find themselves caught up in the wildfire of Líadan’s life. But the fates must have had another path in mind for them.
Aila, daughter of the god of entropy, promises herself as Líadan’s only chance at surviving the torment of the hungry flame. Though, perhaps even the child of a god lacks faith sometimes.
Their fates are intertwined in the never ending motion of the Maelstrom, and it is their choice alone to decide it they walk the road the fates set before them, or choose another path.

https://buy.bookfunnel.com/rktaq3muij

When going back is not an option, you must move forward

Without Wings cover: An angel statue descending from the top right corner with a sunset cloud filled sky in the background.

Blurb: When a fallen angel is pulled from icy waters, they expect to be met with the wrath of hell. But instead, they are welcomed into a small island community that offers nothing but love and kindness to them.
They struggle with mortal life and their lingering faith for the saint that has forsaken them, but gradually they begin to accept the path they now walk thanks to the patience of their newfound friends.

https://voicesofvalhoon.itch.io/without-wings

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· May 3

#Mememay Aloïs at the inciting incident vs Aloïs roughly two chapters later

A two panel meme

Top panel: A figure labeled Aloïs reaching for a yellow circle labeled knighthood

Bottom panel: the same figure from before being held back by a large pink figure labeled ‘Ser Kit getting turned into a cat’

A two panel meme from The Office of Dwight holding out two papers with the text on the bottom saying “Copprate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture.” The paper on the left is labeled Ser Kit and the one on the right is labeled Eld with Meir beard shaved.

The bottom panel is Pam labeled as Aloïs saying “They’re the same picture.”

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· May 2

I've been struggling with this chapter for MONTHS and now it's finally done!!! Time to move on to the stuff I've been plotting in the background also for months :)

Background: Yellow ginkgo leaves
Text: False Knight Accountability Thread
The last bit of dragon’s blood faded from Aloïs’ grasp and she slumped to the ground on shaking legs.

“Why are you doing this? Why go onto the island when we told you to leave? Why save me? Why nurse me back to health? Why not wash your hands of me?”

Eld hesitated. “Because…if I had someone to do the same for me when I was going through this exact situation then maybe I wouldn’t have gone down such a foolish path of my own.”

Aloïs hastily wiped her face with the back of her hand. “You seem well enough adjusted to me.”

“You don’t know me just as much as I don’t know you.” Eld gave a cheeky half smile and offered her a hand up, which she took. “How about it, then?”

Aloïs glanced at the horses. She’d never be able to forgive herself if something happened to Auretta. “Okay.”
Words written: 672
Total word count: 16,393
Chapters: 11/??

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· May 2

How I feel about Enaka, Cavid, and Theso

Bright yellow sticker that says

THIS IS A SET DO NOT
SEPARATE

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· May 2

The cover ➡️ the first page Universal link: buy.bookfunnel.com/rktaq3muij

$PROLOGuE Soft light from the morning sun trickled through warped windows, leaving scattered rainbows dancing across the dusty cobblestones of the tavern. A young girl with skin the color of rust danced between the fractals of light, causing dust to kick up around her; the small particles caught fire against her black fingertips. An older woman with a sandy face and patches of bark scattered across her skin scooped the girl up and spun her around. She giggled with glee as the woman set her down and gave an exaggerated bow. "Run and wash up, sundrop. Patrons should be arriving soon. I have a new herbalism book waiting on your bed." Siofra tucked a strand of silver hair behind one of the curved black horns that protruded from the Líadan's forehead.$

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Apr 29

Ding dong my writing muse is back! At this rate I'll be lucky if this whole book doesn't become focused on Strigard because I love that stupid dog so much. (good lord it's been a while since I've updated this)

Background: Yellow ginkgo leaves
Text: False Knight Accountability Thread
“I think we’re well set for the journey, Strig.”

The hound nudged his thigh pointedly and chomped down on the large, slimy, and well chewed antler in his mouth. Eld rolled meir eyes.

“If you insist on bringing that disgusting thing you’re going to have to carry it yourself.”

Strig dropped the antler on Eld’s foot and trotted away.

“Useless hound,” Eld muttered, toeing the antler into a bush when Strigard had turned away.
Words written: 879
Total word count: 16,393
Chapters: 11/??

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Mar 24

Happy national puppy day, here’s Toby doing his favorite thing

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Mar 20

Without Wings is now available on itch! voicesofvalhoon.itch.io/without-wings Fall back in to the world of Val'hoon with the story of a fallen angel who struggles to find themself and community in the most unlikely of places. Themes of found family, healing from emotional trauma, and self discovery

Cover art for Without Wings by Lilly Lockwood

A purple and pink sunset with an angel statue descending from the top right corner

Cover art by Lilly Lockwood

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Mar 15

Are you like me and super interested in reading so many of the fantastic SPFBO entries this year? Well you're in luck! 25 of us that have our books on itch.io have thrown them in a bundle that you can get for just $25! Get it now: itch.io/b/3592/spfbo...

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Mar 11

New author photo unlocked thanks to the ever wonderful @verati404.bsky.social 🐸

A muppet-ified picture of yours truly. They are posed with their mouth opened in a joyous expression and there are little frog faces in the background

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Feb 22

Posting this purely so that people can see the lil stag beetle the people of Home Stump use as transportation (I hate the way the buildings look but I was getting bored with the piece and am too eepy to try and fix them)

A landscape art piece featuring part of a large stump covered in buildings and a watchtower. There is a large stag beetle wearing a saddle on the stump. In the distance is a vast field of treetops with tall redwoods reaching above. Art by me

Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔@voicesofvalhoon· Feb 21

I've been designing a Wildsea RPG reach as a little treat for myself and of course I had to make a map for it (yes I should be studying, give a guy a break, I can only look at xrays for so long before my eyes start to glaze over)