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Home of the all slaying, no laying, young adult dark fantasy series.

About the author

Turning nightmares into story fuel, R. Lennard is a neurospicy hEDS fiend who has written an all slaying, no laying complete young adult dark fantasy series that will leave you turning the pages.When she’s not crafting epic tales of found family, prophecies, and chosen ones, she can be found wandering the stacks of various Sunshine Coast Libraries.A passionate fan of tea, stories with bite, and chasing dreams, Rebecca brings imagination and magic to every page. She is especially fond of cats, plot twists and foreshadowing.Discover more about R. Lennard, her books, and get the latest releases by signing up for her newsletter today.

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Workbooks

Workbooks designed to help organise authors and cosplayers.

Books without spice

All slaying, no laying books you won't want to put down.

Anthologies

Tales from multiple authors are the perfect accompaniment to your
coffee break. Read a story at a time and relax.

Dark fantasy books

Travel through the all slaying, no laying young adult dark fantasy in the Lissae Series. Monsters, magic and mayhem abound on the sentient realm of Lissae, these are fantasy books you won't want to put down.

Press kit

BiographyTurning nightmares into story fuel, R. Lennard is a neurospicy hEDS fiend who wrote a completed all slaying, no laying young adult dark fantasy series that will leave you turning the pages.When she’s not crafting epic tales of found family, prophecies, and chosen ones, she can be found wandering the stacks of the Sunshine Coast Library.A passionate fan of tea, stories with bite, and chasing dreams, Rebecca brings imagination and magic to every page. She is especially fond of cats, plot twists and foreshadowing.Discover more about R. Lennard, her books, and get the latest releases by signing up for her newsletter today.Buy from the author
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Books
Special editions:
Isle of Plasma and Fear
Isle of Air and Bone
Isle of Crystal and Pain
Isle of Fire and FuryPaperbacks:
Ronah
Rakemyst
Talhan
Cantash
Ginorti
Akoren
Vannali
The Lissae Series
The Lissae Chronicles
The Altoriae's Handbook
Hekkor Mafae
World Building Workbook
Character Creation 101
Cosplay Workbook

Trigger warnings

Trigger warning for the Lissae series by book.Some readers prefer trigger warnings, whilst others feel like they ruin the story. Please be aware that there are spoilers within these warnings.Note that the dead have a problem staying that way...If you find a trigger warning in one of the books that is not included here, please reach out via the 'contact me' page
Ronah - Isle of Plasma and Fear
Animal death (creature gets better - and returns in book 3)
Graphic violence
Torture
Child death (not permanent - just keep reading)
Rakemyst - Isle of Air and Bone
Graphic violence
Poisoning

Talhan - Isle of Crystal and Pain
Graphic violence
Torture
Mutilation
Experimentation
Main character death
Cheating death

Cantash - Isle of Fire and Fury
Graphic violence
Torture
Poisoning
Ends on a cliff-hanger

Ginorti - Isle of Earth and Thorns
Graphic violence
Torture
Abduction
Mental abuse
Akoren - Isle of Water and Lies
Graphic violence
Struggles with PTSD
Struggles finding a therapist
Feelings of abandonment
Ends on the worst cliff-hanger
Vannali - Isle of Souls and Storms
Graphic violence
Death of parent/s
Tortured spirits
Dead coming back to life
Happy ending
The Lissae Chronicles
Child abandonment
Child abuse (mentioned)
Graphic violence
Main character death
Cheating death
Torture
Mental abuse
Mutilation
Experimentation
The Altoriae's Handbook
Graphic violence
Torture
Mental abuse
Main character death
Mentions of violence

Terms and conditions

Refunds do not apply to the following goods:Digital goods: ebooks. These are instant downloads.Please choose carefully. Refunds only given if you buy a duplicate item within 48 hours of first purchase in which case the duplicate item will be refunded.
Refunds for physical goods.There is no return for change of mind. Returns are given for faulty items if you contact us within 7 days of receiving item (according to the tracking).For refund queries, please email [email protected] within 7 days of receiving your product (according to the tracking). Please use the subject "returns" and include your name, order number, and reason for return, and photographs of faulty item. If item is faulty, we resend your goods. We want you to be happy!

Magic, monsters and mayhem

Welcome to Lissae.An all slaying, no laying YA dark epic fantasy series.
Perfect for fans of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Avatar: The Last Airbender,
with a dash of John Wick.

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Privacy policy

With thanks to Writers’ HQ, our supreme writing commanders, glorious leaders and excellent but tiny overlords, who have verily granted us permission to use their splendid and sweary Privacy Policy.Wow has anyone ever read one of these?I have to have one of these dealios to explain how I comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act) and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations) because Zomer knows there’s not enough actual interesting things in the world to read, you need to read 1,000 words of legalese nonsense that makes literally not one bit of difference to anyone, ever.Also I don’t really know what these things are. I'm just an under-heighted writer who thought I’d have a laugh and share my stories with the world.Short WordsThe best bit about the GDPR is that all this has to be “concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible” so hold on to your hats, kids, this is going to be the shortest, clearest and best freakin’ privacy policy you ever did see.So. Here we go…I'm just one overstretched person and I don’t have the time or energy to do anything nefarious with your data. It’s not that I'm not evil – I'm as corruptible as anyone – I'm just too busy writing to think up a malevolent plot to steal your identity.I collect and store the info I need to provide you with the items you buy from me. I occasionally stalk you via Facebook adverts. That’s really it.CookiesSeriously who actually cares? Do you even know what a cookie is or does? Well then. Yes I use cookies because that’s kinda how the Internet works. If you don’t want my delicious home-baked chocolate chip scripts, then you need to block cookies on your browser but don’t come crying to me when nothing does what it’s supposed to.Stalky Visitor TrackingLook, I'm following you, ok? I use Google Analytics, primarily to stare at the real time stats because they’re cool but also to see what stuff people looking at so I can write more of the stuff you like.It doesn't store any super personal data about you but probably they nab your IP address, not that I’d know what to do with it. All I see is that a person or many people have interacted with the website in a particular way. You can mess with me by doing something totally unexpected on the website and skewing my stats. Or you could do something way more fun and useful with your time LIKE READING MY BOOKS.Data StorageDATA!! It’s all about the data, baby. A literal tonne of petabytes whirring around the world and what? What’s it all for? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? What will future historians actually see of us and our slowly collapsing society? So. I store your data in a few different places and use it in a couple of different ways. You ready for this?Here on this website! If you register with the site, I will store your name and email address. If you buy stuff from me, I will store your name, email address, postal address, phone number if you give it to me, and purchase history. Your payment details ARE NOT held on the site. I obviously go to the maximum effort to keep this data secure and only one person has access to it. Only I ever actually look at it and that’s to solve any technical problems you might have.I’ll be honest: I do absolutely nothing unsurprising or radical with your info. I may use your purchase history to target you with ads for stuff you might like. For e.g. if you buy one of my books, I’ll occasionally ask you if you want to buy another one. Does that make me an EvilMegaCorp? Idk, it’s fairly standard isn’t it?MailerLite! If you’ve signed up for anything or bought anything on my site – newsletter, book, merch, anything – your name and email address also wangs its way over to MailerLite, which is the system I use to manage my newsletters and emails. They are (allegedly) GDPR compliant. You can unsubscribe from emails at any time by hitting the unsubscribe button.Payment DetailsWhen you buy stuff, you pay through Stripe or PayPal. The only payment-based details I hold on my site is how much you’ve spent and that you've paid. I have no bank or card details or nada here. Stripe is GDPR compliant. PayPal is being totally weird about it but will have to be GDPR compliant or everyone in Europe will have to stop using it and probably they don’t want that.Email marketing thingys and newslettersIf you sign up to my newsletter, I will send you a newsletter – generally around one a month, but occasionally more if there is more interesting stuff to tell you. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button in every email. Your name and email address are stored securely by EmailOctopus.EmailOctopus automatically adds tracking things to links so if you click on a link, I KNOW. If you open an email, I KNOW. If you ignore me reminding you to keep reading, I KNOW.The most important thing about this is I have neither the time nor inclination to actually look at or do anything with these stats.Your right to be deletedFINE. GO THEN. I DON’T CARE. If you want to go undercover, just chuck us an email at [email protected] and I’ll delete all the info I have on you from my system while having a passive aggressive huff about what I could have possibly done wrong.This does not include Stripe or PayPal. If you want to delete your Stripe or PayPal accounts you have to do that yourself via Stripe or PayPal . I cannot delete your purchase history because the tax man will be terribly upset.Social Media and all that StuffI use social media a lot, partly to promote my books but mostly as a vehicle for our creative endeavours. If you talk to me on my Facebook page and I become familiar with you, I might find you on Instagram or Twitter and say hello. You can ask me to be less friendly if you wish and I will of course respect your boundaries.You are not required to follow my social media accounts. If anyone turns out to be racist, bigoted, homophobic dipshits then I wanna know so I can tell them to go to hell.Got it? Read it? Done it? WELL DONE YOU! Celebrate your achievement with a gold star.

Past events and Interviews

2026
Gold Coast SupaNova 2026
2025Brisbane SupaNova 2025Interview by Azulie Von Dayme in Glasshouse Country NewsCapriCon 2025FraserPop 2025Sugar Pop Con 2025Podcast interview with Emma LovellSunshine Coast Hinterland Writers Festival Book MarketGold Coast SupaNova 2025
2024Brisbane SupaNova 2025The Writers Guide to the Galaxy Panel event - hosted by House of ProseSpeed Date an Author - hosted by The Maleny BookshopAperitif with an Author - hosted by The Maleny BookshopLissae Book Party - hosted by The Maleny BookshopFraserPop 2024Gold Coast SupaNova 2024
2023Brisbane SupaNova 2023Dear Reader Book Emporium - hosted by Sunshine Coast LibrariesLitLive Maleny 2023FraserPop 2023
2022Brisbane SupaNova 2022Storytellers Festival - hosted by Sunshine Coast LibrariesChildren's Book Week event - hosted by Her Excellency, Governor of Queensland and Professor Nimmo at Queensland Government House
2021Readers and Writers Festival - hosted by The Fellowship of Australian Writers Queensland
2020Interviewed by Claire Buss at But I don’t like saladVoices on the Coast 2020
2019Brisbane SupaNova 2019
2018Evil Inside Us Launch - hosted by 1231 Publishing at Moreton Bay Libraries