Lyndall Clipstone writes about monsters and the girls who like to kiss them. A former youth librarian who grew up running wild in the Barossa Ranges of South Australia, she currently lives in Adelaide, in a hundred-year-old cottage with her partner, two children, and a shy black cat
Her debut novel, Lakesedge, was a Dymocks, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble bestseller, nominated for the 2021 Book Shimmy Awards, and selected as one of Better Reading’s 2022 top 50 kids’ books. Her works have been published in over four territories, including multiple translations
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Clipstone successfully weaves religious trauma and societal otherness into a bloodied but gorgeous fabric of horror and romance
Victoria Mier, bookseller at The Spiral Bookcase
bloody, sumptuous, and as timeless as a fairy tale
April Genevieve Tucholke, author of The Boneless Mercies
an eerily vivid world of dark magic and darker monsters
Marissa Meyer, internationally bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles
prose that reads like a hypnotic incantation
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For review copy requests, as well as requests regarding media, interviews, or events, please contact my publicists in the relevant territories:
North America – morgan.rath@macmillan.com (for Lakesedge, Forestfall and Unholy Terrors)
UK/Commonwealth – lydia.gittins@titanemail.com (for Lakesedge and Forestfall)
AUS/NZ – candice.wyman@macmillan.com.au (for Lakesedge and Forestfall); publicity@penguinrandomhouse.com.au (for Unholy Terrors)
For professional inquiries such as rights, permissions, or blurb requests, please contact my agent:
Jill Grinberg – jill@jillgrinbergliterary.com
Content warnings for all of my books can be found here
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