Lorraine Wilson
@rainewilson.bsky.social
Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Kavya & Saltire Awards SL | THE SALT ORACLE coming 06/11/25 https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her
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✨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
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
A damn fine rabbit hole right here 👇🏽🐰🕳️
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
January 17, 2026 at 10:49 AM
A damn fine rabbit hole right here 👇🏽🐰🕳️
Here's that post sharing some simple & hopefully fun solarpunky climate fic story prompts, if anyone is looking for inspiration or a bit of zero stakes creative catharsis 🖤
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Story prompts for short fic January (and maybe February, who knows) | Lorraine Wilson
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January 17, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Here's that post sharing some simple & hopefully fun solarpunky climate fic story prompts, if anyone is looking for inspiration or a bit of zero stakes creative catharsis 🖤
www.patreon.com/posts/147887...
www.patreon.com/posts/147887...
A thread neatly summarising the things I am telling myself on the regular atm.
Our ability to persevere depends on our ability to nurture ourselves and others. Art is part of that.
Write the story, whether it's a howl, a hug or a hope, we need them all.
Our ability to persevere depends on our ability to nurture ourselves and others. Art is part of that.
Write the story, whether it's a howl, a hug or a hope, we need them all.
If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is.
Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.
Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.
January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
A thread neatly summarising the things I am telling myself on the regular atm.
Our ability to persevere depends on our ability to nurture ourselves and others. Art is part of that.
Write the story, whether it's a howl, a hug or a hope, we need them all.
Our ability to persevere depends on our ability to nurture ourselves and others. Art is part of that.
Write the story, whether it's a howl, a hug or a hope, we need them all.
Oh this looks brilliant 🖤
🗣️Calling all BPOC Writers in the UK🗣️: Registration for Developing Your Craft with SBWN is now open. Get your tickets now: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/developing-y...
Developing Your Craft with SBWN
This series focuses on thinking more deeply and deliberately about the craft techniques in your writing.
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January 16, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Oh this looks brilliant 🖤
MOAR woke cannibal erotica?
So delighted we're getting more from these fabulously messed up siblings
So delighted we're getting more from these fabulously messed up siblings
The CL Hellisen book that reviews called 'woke cannibal erotica' has a friend. ;)
Just over a month to go before the sequel to The Shape of Monsters hits audio!
Buy from audio book retailers or listen free with Audible plus
Just over a month to go before the sequel to The Shape of Monsters hits audio!
Buy from audio book retailers or listen free with Audible plus
January 16, 2026 at 10:17 AM
MOAR woke cannibal erotica?
So delighted we're getting more from these fabulously messed up siblings
So delighted we're getting more from these fabulously messed up siblings
Welcome to the UK, to this gorgeous book. Please everyone go buy it so we can have book 2??
🎉🎂 Happy UK Book Birthday to @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's ASUNDER!
🏆 A Finalist for the Nebula and Locus Awards,
🖤 A @reactorsff.bsky.social Reviewer's Choice of 2024
📙 A New York Public Library Best-Of Pick
SABRIEL meets WITCH KING in this deliciously dark fantasy.
Buy: https://geni.us/asunder
🏆 A Finalist for the Nebula and Locus Awards,
🖤 A @reactorsff.bsky.social Reviewer's Choice of 2024
📙 A New York Public Library Best-Of Pick
SABRIEL meets WITCH KING in this deliciously dark fantasy.
Buy: https://geni.us/asunder
January 15, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Welcome to the UK, to this gorgeous book. Please everyone go buy it so we can have book 2??
First attempt at doing something with the damaged books - ORIGAMI ORLANDO 😂
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 5:51 PM
First attempt at doing something with the damaged books - ORIGAMI ORLANDO 😂
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
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Who doesn't love a library event?? Come and join us!
Hi pals, me again, we've added extra seats for Saturday's event with myself and @mkhardywrites.com but are down to the last few tickets, come and goth up your weekend. I'd love to see you there!
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Who doesn't love a library event?? Come and join us!
Because everything is a lot, and we need art that comes from hope as much as fury, I've just prepped a post of simple solarpunky climate fiction story prompts to share.
I'll be using them to dream, vent and nurture my creativity & I'm hoping that's something that'll be interesting to yous too?
I'll be using them to dream, vent and nurture my creativity & I'm hoping that's something that'll be interesting to yous too?
January 15, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Because everything is a lot, and we need art that comes from hope as much as fury, I've just prepped a post of simple solarpunky climate fiction story prompts to share.
I'll be using them to dream, vent and nurture my creativity & I'm hoping that's something that'll be interesting to yous too?
I'll be using them to dream, vent and nurture my creativity & I'm hoping that's something that'll be interesting to yous too?
My absolute favourite 'we're not dinosaurs honest' birds. Just such affectionate and permanently slightly bedraggled weirdos
The other day at a nearby patch I caught some movement that was a Groove-billed Ani. This time I didn’t hear its striking call. Turned out there were 2 deep in the tree cover. #CorpusChristiTx #Birds
January 15, 2026 at 1:27 PM
My absolute favourite 'we're not dinosaurs honest' birds. Just such affectionate and permanently slightly bedraggled weirdos
Some good news, amidst the everything 🖤
The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win
January 15, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Some good news, amidst the everything 🖤
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
Fancy winning a copy of @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's dark fantasy ASUNDER? It's perfect for fans of SABRIEL and WITCHKING.
UK readers, head over to @thestorygraph.com now!
Enter by 18th January 2026 👉 https://bit.ly/49lHITW
Preorder: https://geni.us/asunder
UK readers, head over to @thestorygraph.com now!
Enter by 18th January 2026 👉 https://bit.ly/49lHITW
Preorder: https://geni.us/asunder
January 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Fancy winning a copy of @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's dark fantasy ASUNDER? It's perfect for fans of SABRIEL and WITCHKING.
UK readers, head over to @thestorygraph.com now!
Enter by 18th January 2026 👉 https://bit.ly/49lHITW
Preorder: https://geni.us/asunder
UK readers, head over to @thestorygraph.com now!
Enter by 18th January 2026 👉 https://bit.ly/49lHITW
Preorder: https://geni.us/asunder
I need to read a book asap so I can reference it in an article.
Oh no.
I will have to spend the day on the sofa under a cat.
Calamity.
Oh no.
I will have to spend the day on the sofa under a cat.
Calamity.
January 13, 2026 at 10:06 AM
I need to read a book asap so I can reference it in an article.
Oh no.
I will have to spend the day on the sofa under a cat.
Calamity.
Oh no.
I will have to spend the day on the sofa under a cat.
Calamity.
Hey Glasgow/central belt folks, please do come join us for this next week. Apparently there's tickets left & I can promise to rave about orcas, tell you ghost stories and dance*
*one of these might be a lie.
Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
*one of these might be a lie.
Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
January 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Hey Glasgow/central belt folks, please do come join us for this next week. Apparently there's tickets left & I can promise to rave about orcas, tell you ghost stories and dance*
*one of these might be a lie.
Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
*one of these might be a lie.
Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
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My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!!
My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹
My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹
These Stories Teach Us How to Fight - Uncanny Magazine
Chicago, October 2025. I need you to know we tried. I bought whistles and saline eyewash for my friends, students. The theatre bought 150 whistles. They were gone in days. A neighbor 3D-printed hundre...
www.uncannymagazine.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:53 PM
My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!!
My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹
My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹
I didn't realise I had a zapatista overseeing this panel from the bookshelf, but it is kinda perfect. I think he probably approved of the discussion.
And we're off! Already a great discussion with @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @ianthegreen.bsky.social @georgiacooked.bsky.social
It's not too late to join us: tinyurl.com/bfsjustice
It's not too late to join us: tinyurl.com/bfsjustice
January 10, 2026 at 12:45 PM
I didn't realise I had a zapatista overseeing this panel from the bookshelf, but it is kinda perfect. I think he probably approved of the discussion.
I've chickened out of moderating panels for 6 whole years. But that ends today... So this chicken would much appreciate some good vibes pls 😱🐔
January 10, 2026 at 9:45 AM
I've chickened out of moderating panels for 6 whole years. But that ends today... So this chicken would much appreciate some good vibes pls 😱🐔
🙌🏽 Tomorrow! Join us!
Tomorrow I'm on a virtual panel for the BFS day long event on social justice- britishfantasysociety.org/events-calen...
Come along! Get that positive rage
@britfantasysoc.bsky.social
@rainewilson.bsky.social
@georgiacooked.bsky.social
@abeaumontbooks.bsky.social
Come along! Get that positive rage
@britfantasysoc.bsky.social
@rainewilson.bsky.social
@georgiacooked.bsky.social
@abeaumontbooks.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
🙌🏽 Tomorrow! Join us!
fab thread digging into how cringy edgelord Hopkins was 👇
Did you know that 'Witchfinder General' Matthew Hopkins was young?
And also cringe?
These days he's associated with Vincent Price, who was about 50 in the movie of the same name. But no: he was in his mid-twenties. Died at 27 or 28.
John Stearne, his sidekick in the movie, was no such thing. 1/
And also cringe?
These days he's associated with Vincent Price, who was about 50 in the movie of the same name. But no: he was in his mid-twenties. Died at 27 or 28.
John Stearne, his sidekick in the movie, was no such thing. 1/
January 9, 2026 at 10:29 AM
fab thread digging into how cringy edgelord Hopkins was 👇
The rollercoaster of HALP MANY BOOKS IN MY PORCH to YAY BOOK CLUB SIGNINGS to *nooooo some of them are damaged* to *ooooh craft project discard books* has been a wild half hour
So anyway, how hard can those book cutaway art things be anyway???
So anyway, how hard can those book cutaway art things be anyway???
January 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
The rollercoaster of HALP MANY BOOKS IN MY PORCH to YAY BOOK CLUB SIGNINGS to *nooooo some of them are damaged* to *ooooh craft project discard books* has been a wild half hour
So anyway, how hard can those book cutaway art things be anyway???
So anyway, how hard can those book cutaway art things be anyway???
A great explainer to a voting membership that feels opaque but isn't once you know.
And as Molly says, more voters means stronger, more equitable awards so if you can afford the entry (yes, I know) it's a good thing to do.
And as Molly says, more voters means stronger, more equitable awards so if you can afford the entry (yes, I know) it's a good thing to do.
Did you know that you, yes YOU, can vote in the Hugo Awards??
@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
@mollytempleton.com breaks down the process, including how to register before the January 31st deadline!
Anyone Can Vote in the Hugo Awards — And Here's How - Reactor
You — yes, you! — can nominate work and vote for the winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards!
reactormag.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
A great explainer to a voting membership that feels opaque but isn't once you know.
And as Molly says, more voters means stronger, more equitable awards so if you can afford the entry (yes, I know) it's a good thing to do.
And as Molly says, more voters means stronger, more equitable awards so if you can afford the entry (yes, I know) it's a good thing to do.
Just had a hotel booking session for various upcoming cons & events in the BOLD HOPE that publishing will pay me enough to cover the costs...
a baby is sitting on the floor playing with a toy and a balloon .
Alt: A video clip of an adorbs wee tot sitting on the floor opening a leather wallet, seeing the lack of publishing money and throwing herself backwards in wild and emphatic despair. She is me.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Just had a hotel booking session for various upcoming cons & events in the BOLD HOPE that publishing will pay me enough to cover the costs...
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We asked @rainewilson.bsky.social for her best books of 2025, a book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated reads of 2026.
Read on https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @stewarthotston.com @mkhardywrites.com & more!
https://geni.us/weallghostsPB
https://geni.us/saltorac
Read on https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @stewarthotston.com @mkhardywrites.com & more!
https://geni.us/weallghostsPB
https://geni.us/saltorac
January 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
We asked @rainewilson.bsky.social for her best books of 2025, a book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated reads of 2026.
Read on https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @stewarthotston.com @mkhardywrites.com & more!
https://geni.us/weallghostsPB
https://geni.us/saltorac
Read on https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @stewarthotston.com @mkhardywrites.com & more!
https://geni.us/weallghostsPB
https://geni.us/saltorac
We have a black hole situation in our discarded wrapping paper.
If you're feeling space-time warp, we apologise for the inconvenience & are working to resolve the issue
If you're feeling space-time warp, we apologise for the inconvenience & are working to resolve the issue
January 6, 2026 at 2:19 PM
We have a black hole situation in our discarded wrapping paper.
If you're feeling space-time warp, we apologise for the inconvenience & are working to resolve the issue
If you're feeling space-time warp, we apologise for the inconvenience & are working to resolve the issue