Amy Lilwall
@amylilwall.bsky.social
Writer. Novelist. Very bad at social media.
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A new adventure today! This time I'll be at Blackwell's Manchester (I've never properly been to Manchester! 😀) If you're in the area, come and say hello 💙📚✨️
@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
See you this Thursday at 6.45pm at Manchester Blackwell's
If entry fee is a barrier, just DM us for guest list :)
@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
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If entry fee is a barrier, just DM us for guest list :)
@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A new adventure today! This time I'll be at Blackwell's Manchester (I've never properly been to Manchester! 😀) If you're in the area, come and say hello 💙📚✨️
@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
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Manchester readers. One for you tomorrow evening @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Two authors of stunning climate fiction novels come together. 📚💙 #BookSky
See you this Thursday at 6.45pm at Manchester Blackwell's
If entry fee is a barrier, just DM us for guest list :)
@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-lilwal...
If entry fee is a barrier, just DM us for guest list :)
@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-lilwal...
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Manchester readers. One for you tomorrow evening @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Two authors of stunning climate fiction novels come together. 📚💙 #BookSky
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💙📚 #Booksky Find something new to read and support a cracking little indie press and authors as you do!
Lovely Scribblers, you know we like to be positive, but naturally selling books is tough - indeed website sales for the last few months have been slim.
We keep almost 100% of the income when you buy direct - and we can therefore give more % to our authors too!
Check out www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
We keep almost 100% of the income when you buy direct - and we can therefore give more % to our authors too!
Check out www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
💙📚 #Booksky Find something new to read and support a cracking little indie press and authors as you do!
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"In a world of undercutting and Amazon dynamic pricing, let’s not constantly promote sales of our books and creative outputs. Let’s price up, because we chronically undervalue ourselves as creatives anyway."
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November 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"In a world of undercutting and Amazon dynamic pricing, let’s not constantly promote sales of our books and creative outputs. Let’s price up, because we chronically undervalue ourselves as creatives anyway."
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If you're in Newcastle today, I'll be at The Deep North talking to fabulous bookseller James at Opt Indie Books about The Water That May Come. There will also be doughnuts! 🍩💙📚 Find out more here: www.optindiebooks.co.uk/store/p524/T...
The Water That May Come
Opt Indie Books is a celebration of bookshops, books, and the people who read them!
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October 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
If you're in Newcastle today, I'll be at The Deep North talking to fabulous bookseller James at Opt Indie Books about The Water That May Come. There will also be doughnuts! 🍩💙📚 Find out more here: www.optindiebooks.co.uk/store/p524/T...
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15% off The Water That May Come by @amylilwall.bsky.social ?
Go on then
'As the saying goes, we may all be facing the same storm, but some of us are doing in so yachts, others in rubber dinghies and some fighting for a pair of waterwings.' - T.O. Munro, Fantasy Hive
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Go on then
'As the saying goes, we may all be facing the same storm, but some of us are doing in so yachts, others in rubber dinghies and some fighting for a pair of waterwings.' - T.O. Munro, Fantasy Hive
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October 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
15% off The Water That May Come by @amylilwall.bsky.social ?
Go on then
'As the saying goes, we may all be facing the same storm, but some of us are doing in so yachts, others in rubber dinghies and some fighting for a pair of waterwings.' - T.O. Munro, Fantasy Hive
www.amazon.co.uk/Water-That-M...
Go on then
'As the saying goes, we may all be facing the same storm, but some of us are doing in so yachts, others in rubber dinghies and some fighting for a pair of waterwings.' - T.O. Munro, Fantasy Hive
www.amazon.co.uk/Water-That-M...
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"Hrafnablótsjökul cracks open one eye, but her icicle-dry eyelashes are meshed together. The moon is high and the air is swollen. Frost melts between her metatarsals, tickles its way down to the sea..." Excerpt today @amylilwall.bsky.social The Water That May Come
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Hrafnablótsjökul Volcano cracks open one eye...
Plus Fly on the Wall Press Acquires Haunting Debut Novel Set in Post-Independence Zimbabwe
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October 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"Hrafnablótsjökul cracks open one eye, but her icicle-dry eyelashes are meshed together. The moon is high and the air is swollen. Frost melts between her metatarsals, tickles its way down to the sea..." Excerpt today @amylilwall.bsky.social The Water That May Come
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Lucky for some, table 13, is where you'll find us. Alongside two of our fabulous authors on Friday @johnironmonger.bsky.social and @amylilwall.bsky.social both of whom will be giving a reading at 3.30pm. Join us. 💙📚 #booksky
See you at the Small Publishers Fair at Conway hall this Friday and Saturday in London 11am-7pm, free!
October 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Lucky for some, table 13, is where you'll find us. Alongside two of our fabulous authors on Friday @johnironmonger.bsky.social and @amylilwall.bsky.social both of whom will be giving a reading at 3.30pm. Join us. 💙📚 #booksky
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With many thanks to Clive Simpson for this in depth and thoughtful response to The Water That May Come by @amylilwall.bsky.social. Great to see that this reader understood the fundamental questions behind the book. @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
📚💙 #booksky
📚💙 #booksky
Amy Lilwall’s novel The Water That May Come speaks to contemporary concerns about climate breakdown and anti-migrant rhetoric | Clive Simpson
The Water That May Come: fiction and climate reality collide
Amy Lilwall’s novel The Water That May Come speaks to contemporary concerns about climate breakdown and anti-migrant rhetoric
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October 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
With many thanks to Clive Simpson for this in depth and thoughtful response to The Water That May Come by @amylilwall.bsky.social. Great to see that this reader understood the fundamental questions behind the book. @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
📚💙 #booksky
📚💙 #booksky
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The Water That May Come: fiction and climate reality collide
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'Migration is handled with a human touch' @cliftop.bsky.social
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'Migration is handled with a human touch' @cliftop.bsky.social
Amy Lilwall’s novel The Water That May Come speaks to contemporary concerns about climate breakdown and anti-migrant rhetoric | Clive Simpson
The Water That May Come: fiction and climate reality collide
Amy Lilwall’s novel The Water That May Come speaks to contemporary concerns about climate breakdown and anti-migrant rhetoric
centralbylines.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The Water That May Come: fiction and climate reality collide
@amylilwall.bsky.social
'Migration is handled with a human touch' @cliftop.bsky.social
@amylilwall.bsky.social
'Migration is handled with a human touch' @cliftop.bsky.social
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LoveReading have made 'The Water That May Come' by @amylilwall.bsky.social a Star Book 😄
'The Water That May Come is a potently gripping work that challenges ideas around refugee identity while posing pertinent questions about privilege in the context of an impending environmental catastrophe....'
'The Water That May Come is a potently gripping work that challenges ideas around refugee identity while posing pertinent questions about privilege in the context of an impending environmental catastrophe....'
October 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
LoveReading have made 'The Water That May Come' by @amylilwall.bsky.social a Star Book 😄
'The Water That May Come is a potently gripping work that challenges ideas around refugee identity while posing pertinent questions about privilege in the context of an impending environmental catastrophe....'
'The Water That May Come is a potently gripping work that challenges ideas around refugee identity while posing pertinent questions about privilege in the context of an impending environmental catastrophe....'
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Heads up for @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair at Conway Hall, London, as seen on Slow Horses! Don't worry - noone will drop tin of paint on yr head! Fri 24th and Sat 25th 11-7pm. Includes readings by @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social authors @johnironmonger.bsky.social and @amylilwall.bsky.social .
A 🧵 of the #smallpublishersfair25 readings & talks on both days of the Fair. Friday's readings are introduced by @tyrrellknot.bsky.social and take place in The Green Room (2pm-5pm).
2pm: Helen Douglas (Weproductions)
2.30pm: Charlotte Northall (Pilot Press)
3.00pm: John Bevis (Uniformbooks)
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2pm: Helen Douglas (Weproductions)
2.30pm: Charlotte Northall (Pilot Press)
3.00pm: John Bevis (Uniformbooks)
(1/5)
October 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Heads up for @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair at Conway Hall, London, as seen on Slow Horses! Don't worry - noone will drop tin of paint on yr head! Fri 24th and Sat 25th 11-7pm. Includes readings by @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social authors @johnironmonger.bsky.social and @amylilwall.bsky.social .
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What a gorgeous write up of @amylilwall.bsky.social 's launch at Lark Books this month!
"What gives the book its bite is not apocalypse-as-a-spectacle but pressure-as-a-test..."
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Thank you Clive!! @inpressbooks.bsky.social
"What gives the book its bite is not apocalypse-as-a-spectacle but pressure-as-a-test..."
simcomm.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Thank you Clive!! @inpressbooks.bsky.social
The Water That May Come
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October 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
What a gorgeous write up of @amylilwall.bsky.social 's launch at Lark Books this month!
"What gives the book its bite is not apocalypse-as-a-spectacle but pressure-as-a-test..."
simcomm.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Thank you Clive!! @inpressbooks.bsky.social
"What gives the book its bite is not apocalypse-as-a-spectacle but pressure-as-a-test..."
simcomm.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Thank you Clive!! @inpressbooks.bsky.social
Marvelous afternoon in Frodsham at The Curious Cat Bookshop, yesterday. What a smashing place! Owner and bouncer, Crackers the cat, was in fine form and his lovely humans laid on quite a feast! I have concluded that books + afternoon tea = pure joy ✨️☕️🐈🍰📚
October 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Marvelous afternoon in Frodsham at The Curious Cat Bookshop, yesterday. What a smashing place! Owner and bouncer, Crackers the cat, was in fine form and his lovely humans laid on quite a feast! I have concluded that books + afternoon tea = pure joy ✨️☕️🐈🍰📚
Cats and books and afternoon tea! Find all of these things at The Curious Cat Bookshop in Frodsham tomorrow, Sunday 12th October, at 4pm ☕️🐈📚✨️
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Amy Lilwall – Author Afternoon Tea – The Curious Cat Bookshop
Location: The Curious Cat Bookshop, 50 Main Street, Frodsham, WA6 7AU Date: Sunday 12th October 3:30pm Arrival for 4:00pm Start Ticket Price: £10.00 Copies of the book are available, please visit th...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Cats and books and afternoon tea! Find all of these things at The Curious Cat Bookshop in Frodsham tomorrow, Sunday 12th October, at 4pm ☕️🐈📚✨️
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Wow, how lovely to receive a lovely review! 🥹 Thank you @loubookmarks.bsky.social for your time and your kind words 💙📚🌊
"Identity, a struggle to survive against elements & disappearing of everything, including cities are well written. It poses questions about how you react to environmental consequences & can you rely on those you could before?" @loubookmarks.bsky.social
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#Review by Lou of The Water That May Come by Amy Lilwall #AmyLillwall @fly_press #TheWaterThatMayCome
The Water That May ComeBy Amy Lilwall review by Louise Cannon ★★★★★ Better late than never as they say. This book was well worth the wait as I waded through some family health issues, looking longi…
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October 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Wow, how lovely to receive a lovely review! 🥹 Thank you @loubookmarks.bsky.social for your time and your kind words 💙📚🌊
Not one but TWO books in the window at lovely long-established Lincoln bookshop, Lindum Books. And next to @richardosman1.bsky.social, no less! My cup runneth properly over, this week. Wishing all the writers here the same happiness 📚💙
October 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Not one but TWO books in the window at lovely long-established Lincoln bookshop, Lindum Books. And next to @richardosman1.bsky.social, no less! My cup runneth properly over, this week. Wishing all the writers here the same happiness 📚💙
Launch party yesterday of The Water That May Come (with cupcakes) at the wonderful Lark Books Lincoln, with the awesome Rob Weston. We talked immigration, inspiration, intimacy and, er, volcanoes... Wonderful turnout! Am feeling very blessed 📚💙
October 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Launch party yesterday of The Water That May Come (with cupcakes) at the wonderful Lark Books Lincoln, with the awesome Rob Weston. We talked immigration, inspiration, intimacy and, er, volcanoes... Wonderful turnout! Am feeling very blessed 📚💙
PUBLICATION DAY! 🥳 To celebrate, I've made a little video of an extract from The Water That May Come. My character, Jane, is driving up to Scotland to flee the pending natural disaster. Here, she realises the power of the kindness of strangers 💙📚✨️
Massive thanks to @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
Massive thanks to @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
PUBLICATION DAY! 🥳 To celebrate, I've made a little video of an extract from The Water That May Come. My character, Jane, is driving up to Scotland to flee the pending natural disaster. Here, she realises the power of the kindness of strangers 💙📚✨️
Massive thanks to @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
Massive thanks to @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
Oh, that feeling when you see something you made (while hunched pyjama-clad over a laptop for weeks on end) for sale in an actual SHOP! My chuffed-o-meter has reached new levels thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social , Lincoln
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September 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Oh, that feeling when you see something you made (while hunched pyjama-clad over a laptop for weeks on end) for sale in an actual SHOP! My chuffed-o-meter has reached new levels thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social , Lincoln
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'Jane drives them to their first port of call, a cattery up by Northfleet, where a wrong turn leads them to a still, dark line of Eurostar trains. WELCOME TO DISNEYLAND KENT is graffitied on one of the carraiges in a long, orange sqiggle.'
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The Water That May Come by Amy Lilwall | flyonthewallpress
From the Author of 'The Biggerers', October 2025 brings a quirky speculative tale of Britain's future... 'Warmhearted yet dark. Amy Lilwall creates a world that is instantly relatable, populated by ec...
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September 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
'Jane drives them to their first port of call, a cattery up by Northfleet, where a wrong turn leads them to a still, dark line of Eurostar trains. WELCOME TO DISNEYLAND KENT is graffitied on one of the carraiges in a long, orange sqiggle.'
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Eek! One week to go! 💙📚
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Eek! One week to go! 💙📚
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Cli-fi and sci-fi and worldbuilding today with novelist @amylilwall.bsky.social!
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Fair Season + Climate Fiction Deep Dive
How the immigration crisis inspired a climate thriller + publishing opportunities
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September 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Cli-fi and sci-fi and worldbuilding today with novelist @amylilwall.bsky.social!
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Me: 'Fairy Godmother, I'd like to have afternoon tea on the 12th October at 3pm.'
FG: 'Well that sounds simple enough...'
Me: 'Could it be in a bookshop?'
FG: 'Absolutely!'
Me: 'Oo, and can you throw in a cat?'
FG: 🪄✨️ Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!' ✨️
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FG: 'Well that sounds simple enough...'
Me: 'Could it be in a bookshop?'
FG: 'Absolutely!'
Me: 'Oo, and can you throw in a cat?'
FG: 🪄✨️ Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!' ✨️
thecuriouscatbookshop.co.uk/product/amy-...
Amy Lilwall - Author Afternoon Tea - The Curious Cat Bookshop
Afternoon Tea with Author Amy Lilwall at the Curious Cat Bookshop.
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September 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Me: 'Fairy Godmother, I'd like to have afternoon tea on the 12th October at 3pm.'
FG: 'Well that sounds simple enough...'
Me: 'Could it be in a bookshop?'
FG: 'Absolutely!'
Me: 'Oo, and can you throw in a cat?'
FG: 🪄✨️ Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!' ✨️
thecuriouscatbookshop.co.uk/product/amy-...
FG: 'Well that sounds simple enough...'
Me: 'Could it be in a bookshop?'
FG: 'Absolutely!'
Me: 'Oo, and can you throw in a cat?'
FG: 🪄✨️ Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!' ✨️
thecuriouscatbookshop.co.uk/product/amy-...
TWO WEEKS until The Water That May Come bobs up to the surface, arrives on a publishing wave, makes its splashy entrance, ALL the water metaphores! 🌊I'm a bit nervous, I must admit... (That's normal, right?) 💙📚
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The Water That May Come by Amy Lilwall | flyonthewallpress
(Pre-order, will ship October 2025)From the Author of 'The Biggerers', October 2025 brings a quirky speculative tale of Britain's future... 'Warmhearted yet dark. Amy Lilwall creates a world that is i...
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September 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
TWO WEEKS until The Water That May Come bobs up to the surface, arrives on a publishing wave, makes its splashy entrance, ALL the water metaphores! 🌊I'm a bit nervous, I must admit... (That's normal, right?) 💙📚
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...