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Indie Highlights, From This Year to Next – Lyndsey Croal Guest Post

Hello and welcome to this Track of Words guest post, where today I’m very happy indeed to be joined by Lyndsey Croal, author of Have You Decided on Your Question (along with a remarkable number of short stories), who’s here to talk about a whole host of fantastic indie books. I read and loved HYDOYQ earlier this year, so I was delighted when Lyndsey agreed to write something for the site, and share her enthusiasm for indie publishing! Read on for loads of recommendations for great 2023 indie reads, as well as some fascinating-sounding books due in 2024.

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Have You Decided On Your Question – Lindsey Croal

Out now from Shortwave Publishing, Lindsey Croal’s novelette (somewhere between a short story and a novella) Have You Decided On Your Question plays out a Sliding Doors-esque ‘What If’ scenario to a darkly logical conclusion. In a not-so distant future Edinburgh, Zoe reluctantly agrees to visit AltRealTech – or ART – for a ‘personalised therapeutic experience’, a technological simulation that allows her to revisit a moment from her past and experience what might have been. Initially suspicious of her housemate’s assurance that it will help her out of the slump she’s currently in, that first session soon snowballs into an obsession with the life and love she could have had, leading Zoe down a dark and dangerous path.

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