Winter Witch blurb reveal and PRE-ORDERS!

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book cover of winter witch by lissa bilyk, a blonde girl with a white horse looks at the camera, behind them the landscape is snowy

What is it about?

Frozen meets Sarah J Maas with a reverse harem twist.

Cursed. Monster. Murderer.

That’s what the townspeople whisper behind her back. But outcast Tally Bane ignores the rumours, keeps her head down, and quietly moves on. For she is not just a winter witch, scorned for her magical ability to summon winter and cursed with death’s touch, but she also carries a horrible secret: her touch can bring the dead back to life. If anyone knew, she would be instantly put to death as an abomination.

Unfortunately, as a winter witch, she’s exactly what the king wants. On her eighteenth birthday she is conscripted, and given a choice: live in the royal palace and become the crown prince’s personal bodyguard, or head to the front line of the losing war against the barbarian highlanders.

Choosing the former, Tally finds herself unprepared for her new life learning to be a royal bodyguard. The not-so-handsome Prince Ford with the twinkling eyes and easy smile might just give her a reason to stay, as well as his very close group of brothers-in-arms, including the infuriatingly handsome best friend, and the brooding giant with the gentle hands who trains her to fight back. As she learns to trust them, their investigation into Tally’s forbidden power uncovers secrets and conspiracies that lead all the way to the top.

But when summer witches start dying in the palace, all evidence points toward a winter witch’s involvement. Someone wants Tally to take the fall. And to find out who, she needs to embrace the one power that, if exposed to the wrong people, would mean her own death.

**WINTER WITCH is a full-length, medium-fast burn Reverse Harem novel. There are steamy scenes, super hot protective men, and there may or may not be a cliff-hanger.**

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Releasing 30 August 2022.

  • Single POV
  • Fast paced plot
  • Medium burn romance
  • Royalty
  • Enemies to lovers
  • Arranged marriage
  • Found family
  • Protective heroes
  • No m/m
  • Strong female friendship
  • Forbidden magic
  • Diverse fantasy world
  • Strong mystery plot. Basically a Scooby gang.
  • Part 1 of a series!

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Cover Reveal: Winter Witch by Lissa Bilyk

After working on this book for many years, I am proud to present the cover art for my new adult reverse harem romantic high fantasy ‘Winter Witch’, the first book in my Winter series.

book cover of winter witch by lissa bilyk, a blonde girl with a white horse looks at the camera, behind them the landscape is snowy

Artwork by the wonderful author and illustrator Katie Stewart of Magic Owl Design, an incredible Australian artist.

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Smashwords 13th Annual Read An Ebook Week

Read an Ebook Week 2022 with Lissa Bilyk on Smashwords

Read an Ebook Week 2022

The Smashwords 13th Annual Read an Ebook Week sale is now on!

From 6-12 March find a variety of discounted ebooks including my own:

🌌 The Edge of Darkness, a sci-fi about mutinous cyborgs set on a deep-space ship!

😈 Demon’s Blood, a YA paranormal about a teenage demon hunter vs a coven of blood magic witches!

💗 Lies For A Living, a trilogy of contemporary romance novellas between a BBW and a playboy celebrity set on London’s West End, also available in a box set!

➕ Plus 2 FREE short story collections!

All my books are 50% off or FREE!

Get them now at:

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/lissawrites

2021 Update

Hi kittens.

I know this blog has been pretty quiet recently.

I had a pretty rough 2020 – along with the rest of the world.

I was hospitalised twice and nearly died (not COVID related).

I went back to University for a post graduate course.

I continued to work full time at my day job.

I also wrote two novels, one during Camp NaNoWriMo in April 2020, and one during NaNoWriMo 2020.

They are nowhere near ready to be published.

In fact, the point of this blog post is to inform you that I will not be publishing anything in 2021.

I work full time, study part-time, and I have to focus on my health this year.

Writing is a hobby that can take a lot of out you, and publishing is for fun. If I didn’t care about the quality of my published product, I would just churn out my work without taking the time to self edit. But I do care, and it takes time, and a different sort of brain usage than writing a first draft.

I will still be sharing interesting posts on my Facebook page. Please give it a like to stay updated!

I will also be writing. I fully expect to take part in NaNoWriMo 2021, and I will track any other projects on the NaNoWriMo website as well. if you’re a Nano participant, please send me a friend request!

If you’d like to read my available books, please follow these links to the book pages so you can find a format of your choice:

The Edge of Darkness (Adult sci-fi stand-alone)
Tina Storm: Demon Hunter (Tina Storm: Demon hunter #0.5) (YA paranormal – series unfinished)
Demon’s Blood (Tina Storm: Demon Hunter #1) (YA paranormal – series unfinished)
Lies for a Living (Adult contemporary romance trilogy compiled as a stand alone)
The Archive of Lost Dreams (Middle Grade paranormal short story collection)

Happy New Year 2021!

Smashwords Authors Give Back Sale

The corona virus is wreaking havoc across the globe, and many people are required to self-isolate and/or have lost their incomes.

Smashwords authors banded together to request Smashwords run a special sale:

“These authors wanted to show their support to readers who now face unprecedented social isolation, anxiety and economic hardship as a result of the world response to the Covid-19 pandemic.”

There is one small thing I can do to make this time seem a bit less shitty, so I have joined the sale. Staying home a reading can be one of the best things you can do in this situation, so from now until 20 April 2020, most of my books are free or deeply discounted on Smashwords.


The Archive of Lost Dreams is always free at Smashwords.

Four short paranormal tales. The Archive of Lost Dreams: a little girl discovers the importance of dreams and wishes. Roses Are Red: Loren meets her guardian angel who is struggling with jealousy issues. Don’t Even Peep: Eight year old Susan investigates the secrets in her Victorian home. Round, Round The Fairy Ring: Seven year old Abigail’s new baby sister is replaced with a fairy changeling.


Tina Storm: Demon Hunter is always free at Smashwords.

Tina Storm has never been a normal teenager. She’s a demon hunter with the gift of a lightning vanquish – an inherited power from a long line of Storm demon hunters and researchers. Tina Storm: Demon Hunter is the prequel to Demon’s Blood and consists of five urban fantasy ultra-short stories (under 5k) that trace Tina’s adventures as she moves to a new town and starts a new school.


If you enjoyed Tina Storm: Demon Hunter, now you can continue Tina’s story for free with her first full-length adventure, my YA paranormal Demon’s Blood. 

Tina Storm, an Australian teenage demon hunter, must infiltrate a coven of witches to discover who is leading the illegal blood magic rituals whilst juggling the attentions of the hottest male witch and her Chinese shapeshifting demon boyfriend, and has to do it all without the use of her lightning vanquish.


Also, for a very limited time only, my deep space cyborg adventure sci-fi The Edge of Darkness will also be free.

When Max , an unwilling cyborg, is sent back to Earth at the end of an interstellar war, she uncovers a conspiracy aboard the transport ship and must race to find the answers and save the people she cares about before her world and everything she knows is lost to darkness.


I have never made the Lies for a Living box set free or discounted anywhere, and this will be your only chance to get it at a discounted rate (I didn’t want to put in in the sale at all, but I then I thought better). Currently, it is $2.40 down from $5.99, which means that it is cheaper to buy the complete trilogy in the Lies for a Living box set than it is to buy just one of the novellas. I haven’t made this one free because it’s my latest, but you can read more about it here.

All three Lies for a Living novellas bundled into one novel-length romantic adventure set in London.

Book #1 Backstage Heat
Can BBW Tori learn to trust a man who lies for a living?

Book #2 Centre Stage
The paparazzi have revealed Tori and Cameron’s secret relationship, but is Cameron up to his old ways?

Book #3 Name in Lights
With Cameron on location, can Tori resist the new rockstar bad boy?

Go forth and read!