Lorraine Wilson

✨It's Double Publication Day!✨ If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go? geni.us/weallghostsPB geni.us/saltorac @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

What a great essay from @ergative-abs.bsky.social & @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social on the linguistic complexities of THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY. Rise up, language (and anti-language) nerds! www.nerds-feather.com/2026/10/essa...

Supposed to be recording a book launch zoom shortly. Storm whatsisface is going to be an active participant in the audio feed I fear.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

My 'must repost performances that make me cry' rule persists

Me: yesssss I will use weird text formatting to guide the reader through this book's weird narrative structure 🤩🙌🥰 My editor, trying to typeset it: I hate you

SO you know when I posted 'A week today!!' about this? I lied. It was two weeks and one day, because time was timey-wimeying on me. NOW it's a week today. I promise.

55k words on the new book. One ghastly mother with a terrible plan, some fomenting unrest, and someone not quite dead.

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.

Broke the 50k mark on the new book, sent off some copy edits, planted some bulbs in a howling gale, gracefully declined to accept a dead mouse as a gift, and am now celebrating with halva. Winning. I think.

New Review - an exquisite supernatural (or perhaps not) mystery to solve awaits in the excellent The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by MK Hardy out now! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/10...

Paperback incomingggggg!

Here's the link from the bookseller article docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Having plot crises. Send help.

Now that I feel a semblance of normal in the midst of my grief, it's time to return to the publishing hustle. Hi all, I'm acquiring SFF&horror for Solaris, now part of Profile! We're curating the best across the genres: commercial, punchy with a strong hook, to literary & strange. My sample list:

Thanks to @adamchristopher.me for doing the work. Was this charter agreed behind closed doors? Why isn’t there a record of it?

It's a grave indictment of the UK govt that Faber and Rooney have had to make this stand. But good for them, I hope it adds weight to the push for change.

Oh hey SoA members, are you aware there's a live Members Satisfaction Survey up? societyofauthors.org/membership-s...

Love to see my Union fundamentally fail to stand up for the community it's meant to represent.

A week tomorrow! Fifers assemble!

It was my absolute pleasure to moderate the panel on Climate and Eco Fiction. With thanks to my brilliant panelists, Lorraine Wilson, Brigid Lowe, and Joanne Hall, and to all the participants for joining us in the very last hour of #FantasyCon. 💚 @rainewilson.bsky.social @britfantasysoc.bsky.social

Thank you @britfantasysoc.bsky.social for an excellent fantasycon. You're all bloody marvellous.

🎂🎉Happy paperback book birthday to RAGWORT by @samkhorton.bsky.social ! Return to the dark moors of 18th century Cornwall with the paperback edition of RAGWORT - the much-anticipated sequel to deliciously dark folkloric fantasy GORSE! Buy now: buff.ly/zvokngG

IT'S ME. Returning to my beloved Luna Press, who first opened the door to publishing for me. This book is one I am so proud of, guys, it's strange & hopeful & sad, and I'm so glad it gets to live 🖤

Broke 40k on the new book just in time for fantasycon 🙌🏽 Today's words: a fraught meeting, riots, a prophet and tide bells in the fog

Friends! Fronds! I am heading to Glasgow tomorrow for #Fantasycon, and this is where you'll find me (as well as the bar, the other bar, generally loitering, and wandering around in a dwam). Come say hi!

📚️ 🩵 October is here and @britfantasysoc.bsky.social 's Glasgow FANTASYCON is nearly upon us! Here are all of the Solaris folks who you can find there! @aptshadow.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social

I keep on meaning to make a graphic for this but now I dont need to! Win! Come hang out with Raf and I in Kirkcaldy, it'll be fun!

Tonight! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @rainewilson.bsky.social discord.gg/MXmuGyeYP

The shudder of loathing I just felt at seeing an account that 'writes solarpunk with praxis at its core' posting genAI slop Boak. Get in the bin you absolute parasite

I'm curious to see whether folks would like to get the occasional short story on my blog/newsletter thing, in between my usual writing chat & publishing saltiness...? Testing the water with the story that won a British Fantasy Award in 2022 🖤 www.patreon.com/posts/169623...

🙌MOAR poor Jamie getting himself into A FIX!🙌 Massive congrats to Dave & everyone at Headline 🖤

I have a poorly cat, who is asleep on me, and thus no writing is getting done today. Or tea drinking. Or (oh no, woe) exercise.

This is me. And honestly I don't know who I'm more annoyed at - the folks who accepted such grossly unfair eligibility restrictions, the UK govt for never bothering to defend such a high revenue sector, or, you know, the absolute soulless ghouls who stole our work in the first place.

'I didn't say anything bc it would have caused a scene' 'I didn't say anything bc I didn't want to be laughed at' 'I didn't say anything bc I didn't want to lose friends' 'I didn't say anything bc it's just blokes messing around' Good men speak up. Complicit men stay silent.

Ethnic minority author accused of using AI: Cancel him! Destroy him! White author admits to using AI: Get that man a New York Times profile! Give that woman a Nobel Prize in Literature! (I'm more anti-AI than most but the above is nothing to do with the use of AI in art)

I love this! Not sure how it would survive a storm, but it's a kind of visual poetry

Just passed 23k into the new book & now I get to head into Edinburgh to meet lovely friends & celebrate a fab book's launch. Not too shabby for a Thursday

Happiest of pub days to this gorgeous, monstrous book!! Go get this thing asap! 🖤🏚️🧙

Risking hypothermia for a kick ass book video is a level of dedication that warrants ALL THE BOOK SALES. plus this book is immense spiky spooky fun so go get it!

"Horton is a storyteller outside of time, I suspect he may be fae.” @rainewilson.bsky.social Next month, return to the dark moors of Cornwall with the paperback edition of RAGWORT - sequel to @samkhorton.bsky.social 's deliciously dark folkloric fantasy GORSE! Preorder: buff.ly/bw00s5w