So stunning! I only wish there wasn't so much deforestation and there was more left.

Me too, vegan for the animals (and other humans) always and forever.

I so hope that all the baby animals born at this time of year get to enjoy long, happy lives and not end up as someone's meal.

Just come home to find this little chap on the steps by the patio doors. He’s not very well is he? I don’t know whether he’s ill or flown into the glass.
Does anyone know what he is? I’m guessing greenfinch chick but I could well be wrong.

Last day that my debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, is available as a Kindle 99p monthly deal!

My debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, is a Kindle 99p monthly deal if you like your books slow-burn, atmospheric, and equal parts dark and glitz and glamour. A gothic campus novel described as Saltburn meets the Craft meets Mean girls 📚 #BookSky

My debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, is a Kindle 99p monthly deal if you like your books slow-burn, atmospheric, and equal parts dark and glitz and glamour. A gothic campus novel described as Saltburn meets the Craft meets Mean girls 📚 #BookSky

AUTHOR EVENT at Central Library Saturday 28th February, 2–3pm, FREE Tom Newlands: Award winning author of Only Here, Only Now, a powerful coming-of-age novel about friendship, identity, and modern Scottish life. Natalie Jayne Clark: Bloody Scotland Debut Award-nominated author of The Whisky Murders, a gripping Scottish crime novel set in the world of whisky and small-town secrets... Elspeth Wilson: Author of These Mortal Bodies, a powerful novel exploring love, loss, and the past. Perfect for fans of the The Secret History. Join us for an intimate, lively blether with three neurodivergent debut authors, each with different journeys to publication, writing processes, and obsessions to share with you. To book a space: Ask in the library, phone 01786 237760 or email centrallibrary@stirling.gov.uk

Author event: Three neurodivergent debut authors – @newlands.bsky.social, @nataliejayneclark.bsky.social & @elspethwrites.bsky.social – discuss their different journeys to publication & their writing processes

28 Feb, Stirling. Free, booking required
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Three women sitting in a row at a table holding their books. From left to right, Natalie Jayne Clark with brown hair and glasses holding her book The Malt Whisky Murders, Elspeth Wilson with glasses and lighter brown/honey blonde hair holding her book These Mortal Bodies, and Laura with cropped red hair and a rainbow jumper holding her book Awakened

Four people sitting on a stage across two black sofas with a projector scree behind them. From left to right, the chair Eris young with curly dark hair and a white sweater, next to Natalie from the previous photo. On the next sofa is Laura sitting next to Elspeth. The projector screen shows their pictures and the text Bold New Voices Granite Noir festival

Laura, a white woman with cropped red hair wearing a rainbow jumper standing in front of the poster of her book cover smiling at the camera. The cover is for Awakened and features a raven bearing the Tower of London on its back

i’ve made it home nominally alive from Granite Noir, & it’s by far the biggest event i’ve done. i feel so privileged to get to do this & to talk to people about books & meet so many readers/writers/organisers!

someone should invent a sofa i can reach the floor on, though 😂

Edinburgh #BookSky folks I can't wait for this event next week! Would be fab to see you there

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

I'm not a party person. I just want a fairer, kinder, greener world. I'm delighted to see how well the Greens are doing. But we also need a strong and sincere Labour Party, and it is an absolute tragedy to see how Keir Starmer and his moral bypass of a government have ruined it.

Publicity image of "Bold New Voices" author conversation event at Granite Noir, text reading Natalie Jayne Clark, Laura Elliott & Elspeth Wilson with pictures of all three

since it's February I suppose I should say that I'm appearing at #GraniteNoir this month with the excellent @elspethwrites.bsky.social and Natalie Jayne Clark!

the event will be livestreamed on the 22nd February and you can find the link here:
www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/gra...

This sounds great! Looking forward to reading x

One of the most dangerous things I see come from self help and spirituality books.

They state, that the world isn’t the problem. Your thoughts of it are YOUR problem.

I find these books atrocious.

People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"

Reviews.

Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)

Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

These Mortal Bodies is getting a new look for paperback and has some gorgeous new quotes to go along with it! Thank you to @mkhardywrites.com, @pollyrowena.bsky.social (by way of the Bookseller) and Heather Darwent for capturing the murky yet glitzy vibe of my book so perfectly #BookSky

Covered of Dark Crescent by Lyndsey Croal with a gold and glittery background

Still looking for a Christmas present for the Scottish folklore enthusiast in your life? Dark Crescent has you covered - "a terrific collection of Scottish folktales with a modern twist" (according to Joanne Harris!) ✨️ Available in the usual places/via @lunapress.bsky.social! linktr.ee/lyndseycroal

“Illuminated and spirited. Such a necessary book” - Marina Hyde.

Happy International Day of People with Disabilities to all who celebrate by buying a book by a disabled author for everyone on their Christmas list.

Three texts read from Nick Ferrari’s show on LBC. Hope all is well https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15339433/cricket-one-legged-father-pay-36000-benefits-filmed.html Would you be available at 08:35 this morning to speak to Nick about whether the DWP should be taking away this man’s benefits reply from me: No im not free for that. I would never be free for that. It’s just another example of how the press are demonising disabled peopleI’m

headline from the daily mail reads Just not cricket! One-legged father is ordered to pay £36,000 of benefits back after being filmed playing the sport

Need you all to understand how utterly exhausting it is for disabled people (especially those of us with any public profile) to exist online rn.

I'm looking to speak to anyone who has worked in hospitality in Oxford or Cambridge, particularly studenty bars/clubs/restaurants for a potential piece for a national magazine! #journorequest

Disability and the Publishing Industry | The Common Press

London #BookSky people I'm doing an event with two other great authors for Disability History Month and it would be amazing to see some of you there! It's at the Common Press and tickets are from free - I think this is such an important conversation.

www.commonpress.co.uk/event-detail...

My debut novel has gone to number 1 in the rather cryptic 'other practices' category thanks to being part of Kindle's daily deal 😂. And no 7 in coming of age! Last few hours to buy something I poured my heart and soul into for 99p xx #BookSky

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If you're looking for an autumn read with crackling fires, mossy woods, soaring spires and a creeping gothic atmosphere then my debut novel These Mortal Bodies is a Kindle daily deal for today only 💚🎓🖤!! 99p for many hours of (and many more of my life 😂😅)

Thanks so much for sharing and really hope you enjoy!

Interview with Elspeth Wilson about These Mortal Bodies This eerie and intoxicating dark academia campus novel is a Kindle Daily Deal TODAY!

The ebook version of @elspethwrites.bsky.social's These Mortal Bodies is only £1 today!

Been wanting to read it since meeting her at the Someone Like Me launch a few weeks ago.

Here's an interview with her about it:

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Reading this now and really enjoying!

Waterstones: 25% off 2026 new titles. Pre-order code: OCTOBER25. An image of Who Wants Normal? Life Lessons from Disabled Women sits in the centre.

LAST CHANCE!

Waterstones is running a pre-order offer on select titles - and the Who Wants Normal? paperback is included! 

Be quick - it ends today - and you’ll get 25% off and be one of the first to receive the book next year: www.waterstones.com/book/who-wan...

There's just one more day to get 25% off a preorder of the paperback of my debut novel, These Mortal Bodies from Waterstones! If nature as character, explorations of gender and femininity, obsession and friendship are your kind of thing 💚🎓