Sean Lusk
@seanluskauthor.bsky.social
Author of The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley and A Woman of Opinion (Penguin, 2022, 2024). Trying to do a few small good things to lighten the grim 2020s
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Sean Lusk
@seanluskauthor.bsky.social
· Apr 28
Out THIS week. Do drop into your local #bookshop and pick up a copy. You will make an author (and yourself, I hope!) ever so happy. #AWomanofOpinion #paperback #marywortleymontagu
#penguinbooks #historicalnovel @doubledayuk.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @davidhheadley.bsky.social
#penguinbooks #historicalnovel @doubledayuk.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @davidhheadley.bsky.social
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If you're looking to order a copy of the latest winner of 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱'𝘀 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 - @seanluskauthor.bsky.social's A Woman Of Opinion - why not try a local bookshop, instead of putting money in the pocket of an American billionaire?
Here's a good one:
nairnbooks.com
Here's a good one:
nairnbooks.com
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November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
If you're looking to order a copy of the latest winner of 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱'𝘀 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 - @seanluskauthor.bsky.social's A Woman Of Opinion - why not try a local bookshop, instead of putting money in the pocket of an American billionaire?
Here's a good one:
nairnbooks.com
Here's a good one:
nairnbooks.com
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Huge congratulations to Sean Lusk for winning the fiction prize at the Saltire Awards last night for his excellent A Woman of Opinion! #SaltireBookAwards #SeanLusk #AWomanOfOpinion #booksellerreccs #bookrecommendations #booksbooksbooks #booksky
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Huge congratulations to @seanluskauthor.bsky.social who has won Fiction Book of the Year at Scotland’s National Book Awards with the wonderful A WOMAN OF OPINION!🏆🎉
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Huge congratulations to @seanluskauthor.bsky.social who has won Fiction Book of the Year at Scotland’s National Book Awards with the wonderful A WOMAN OF OPINION!🏆🎉
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What better place to spend your Saturday than in a bookshop?
If you're an #IndieBookshop why not tell us something about yourself, any upcoming events, where you're based, what your speciality is if any, show us around!
#SaturdayInABookshop #BookSky 📚💙 #Bookshop #BrowseABookshop
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If you're an #IndieBookshop why not tell us something about yourself, any upcoming events, where you're based, what your speciality is if any, show us around!
#SaturdayInABookshop #BookSky 📚💙 #Bookshop #BrowseABookshop
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October 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
What better place to spend your Saturday than in a bookshop?
If you're an #IndieBookshop why not tell us something about yourself, any upcoming events, where you're based, what your speciality is if any, show us around!
#SaturdayInABookshop #BookSky 📚💙 #Bookshop #BrowseABookshop
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If you're an #IndieBookshop why not tell us something about yourself, any upcoming events, where you're based, what your speciality is if any, show us around!
#SaturdayInABookshop #BookSky 📚💙 #Bookshop #BrowseABookshop
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We are thrilled that A WOMAN OF OPINION has been shortlisted for the Saltire Book Awards 2025! A huge congratulations @seanluskauthor.bsky.social! 🎉
October 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
We are thrilled that A WOMAN OF OPINION has been shortlisted for the Saltire Book Awards 2025! A huge congratulations @seanluskauthor.bsky.social! 🎉
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The programme for this year's Bookmark Blairgowrie book festival. A really excellent, high quality book festival in the heart of Perthshire. This year feat. @seanluskauthor.bsky.social @linanderson.bsky.social @billykayscot.bsky.social @florajowriter.bsky.social and many others. Well worth a visit.
September 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The programme for this year's Bookmark Blairgowrie book festival. A really excellent, high quality book festival in the heart of Perthshire. This year feat. @seanluskauthor.bsky.social @linanderson.bsky.social @billykayscot.bsky.social @florajowriter.bsky.social and many others. Well worth a visit.
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After raising £4k for fuel poverty charities from the print anthology, the FUEL flash ebook—with 12 bonus flash stories—is on its way! That’s 87 brilliant, surprising prizewinning flash stories by writers worldwide, exploding the myth that there's a formula for a “winning” story. www.fuelflash.net
September 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
After raising £4k for fuel poverty charities from the print anthology, the FUEL flash ebook—with 12 bonus flash stories—is on its way! That’s 87 brilliant, surprising prizewinning flash stories by writers worldwide, exploding the myth that there's a formula for a “winning” story. www.fuelflash.net
I adored this unputdownable novel from #lucysteeds #theartist Very unusual for me to be unable to tear myself away from a book, but this gripped me through sheer luminosity of language and story.
August 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I adored this unputdownable novel from #lucysteeds #theartist Very unusual for me to be unable to tear myself away from a book, but this gripped me through sheer luminosity of language and story.
A mini book tour over the weekend took me to three wonderful bookshops - #beinnbooks at Dufftown, where I met the owners of this great new book and coffee shop, Sam and Kelly. Then to @waterstones St Andrews and the amazing Jack and to @waterstones du dee…all in the sunshine, of course!
July 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
A mini book tour over the weekend took me to three wonderful bookshops - #beinnbooks at Dufftown, where I met the owners of this great new book and coffee shop, Sam and Kelly. Then to @waterstones St Andrews and the amazing Jack and to @waterstones du dee…all in the sunshine, of course!
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As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.
May 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.
Apply! You have until June 4th. Go on…go in
Please pass this on to your writing networks and anyone you think might be interested - especially those who haven't been on an Arvon course and might think they *shouldn't* put themselves forward. Yes they should! #flashfiction #poetry #nonfiction #hybridwriting www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Applications open for 1 *FREE* place for writer from an underrepresented community on our "Shorts: short fic, poetry, non fic & hybrids" residential @arvonfoundation.bsky.social course in Aug. Email taniah@gmail.com by 4 Jun telling me how you're eligible & why this particular course interests you!
May 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Apply! You have until June 4th. Go on…go in
Which will be utterly marvellous, because @vickymackenzie.bsky.social is!
I'm running an online Historical Fiction course for Moniack Mhor this September - 4 weeks of workshops, plus a one-to-one tutorial, from the comfort of your own home! ✒️📚🫖
www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2569...
www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2569...
2569 Online: Moniack in a Month – Historical Fiction with Victoria MacKenzie - Moniack Mhor
Join historical novelist Victoria Mackenzie for a lively 4-week online course exploring the art of writing compelling and vivid historical fiction. Aimed at anyone interested in writing a historical n...
www.moniackmhor.org.uk
May 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Which will be utterly marvellous, because @vickymackenzie.bsky.social is!
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I've done a blog!
Get me, all modern & stuff.
Chatting about imaginary paintings,
finding inspiration at 36,000 feet over the Atlantic,
& Flower Power🌹🌸🌹
for my new collection This Is How I Fight, incoming 19th June with @ninearchespress.bsky.social
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/05/in-c...
Get me, all modern & stuff.
Chatting about imaginary paintings,
finding inspiration at 36,000 feet over the Atlantic,
& Flower Power🌹🌸🌹
for my new collection This Is How I Fight, incoming 19th June with @ninearchespress.bsky.social
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/05/in-c...
In Conversation - Rosie Garland
On writing 'This is How I Fight' (and a bonus poem) Rosie Garland returns with a collection centred on connection, defiance, and shifting p...
ninearchespress.blogspot.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I've done a blog!
Get me, all modern & stuff.
Chatting about imaginary paintings,
finding inspiration at 36,000 feet over the Atlantic,
& Flower Power🌹🌸🌹
for my new collection This Is How I Fight, incoming 19th June with @ninearchespress.bsky.social
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/05/in-c...
Get me, all modern & stuff.
Chatting about imaginary paintings,
finding inspiration at 36,000 feet over the Atlantic,
& Flower Power🌹🌸🌹
for my new collection This Is How I Fight, incoming 19th June with @ninearchespress.bsky.social
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/05/in-c...
Great to drop into @waterstones.bsky.social Inverness today to sign copies of #AWomanofOpinion #Marywortleymontagu would have been very pleased to have her own charming table! @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Great to drop into @waterstones.bsky.social Inverness today to sign copies of #AWomanofOpinion #Marywortleymontagu would have been very pleased to have her own charming table! @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
Such a lovely event at #bookmarkblair yesterday with @vickymackenzie.bsky.social - the best sort of chat about historical fiction, with the best sort of audience. And a big shout out to #indiebookshop #adventureintobooks who made the lovely bookmark. Thank you!
May 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Such a lovely event at #bookmarkblair yesterday with @vickymackenzie.bsky.social - the best sort of chat about historical fiction, with the best sort of audience. And a big shout out to #indiebookshop #adventureintobooks who made the lovely bookmark. Thank you!
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Great BookmarkBlair event with authors @vickymackenzie.bsky.social and @seanluskauthor.bsky.social discussing their protagonists Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. And thanks to Chair Gail Wylie for giving a namecheck to "Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Uncharted Island."
May 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Great BookmarkBlair event with authors @vickymackenzie.bsky.social and @seanluskauthor.bsky.social discussing their protagonists Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. And thanks to Chair Gail Wylie for giving a namecheck to "Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Uncharted Island."
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To celebrate Sean Lusk's A Woman of Opinion being out in paperback, here's a feature he wrote for Historia:
How Mary Wortley Montagu and other great 18th-century women were forgotten
Read it at historiamag.com/how-mary-wor...
Happy publication day, Sean!
@seanluskauthor.bsky.social
How Mary Wortley Montagu and other great 18th-century women were forgotten
Read it at historiamag.com/how-mary-wor...
Happy publication day, Sean!
@seanluskauthor.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
To celebrate Sean Lusk's A Woman of Opinion being out in paperback, here's a feature he wrote for Historia:
How Mary Wortley Montagu and other great 18th-century women were forgotten
Read it at historiamag.com/how-mary-wor...
Happy publication day, Sean!
@seanluskauthor.bsky.social
How Mary Wortley Montagu and other great 18th-century women were forgotten
Read it at historiamag.com/how-mary-wor...
Happy publication day, Sean!
@seanluskauthor.bsky.social
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What a book - grab it from your nearest gorgeous independent bookshop! I saw a copy yesterday in the wonderful @serenitybookshop.bsky.social in Stockport, if you're in that neighbourhood. Congrats, @seanluskauthor.bsky.social 🎉
Out TODAY and in all good bookshops. Thank you to the brilliant @shonamaclean.bsky.social for the quote. #awomanofopinion #marywortleymontagu #paperback #historicalfiction @doubledayuk.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
What a book - grab it from your nearest gorgeous independent bookshop! I saw a copy yesterday in the wonderful @serenitybookshop.bsky.social in Stockport, if you're in that neighbourhood. Congrats, @seanluskauthor.bsky.social 🎉
Out TODAY and in all good bookshops. Thank you to the brilliant @shonamaclean.bsky.social for the quote. #awomanofopinion #marywortleymontagu #paperback #historicalfiction @doubledayuk.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Out TODAY and in all good bookshops. Thank you to the brilliant @shonamaclean.bsky.social for the quote. #awomanofopinion #marywortleymontagu #paperback #historicalfiction @doubledayuk.bsky.social
Out TOMORROW. And the brilliant @vickymackenzie.bsky.social and I will be talking about #awomanofopinion and her superb #forthygreatpain this Saturday at #blairgowrie Would be lovely to see you there! #paperback #history #novels
April 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Out TOMORROW. And the brilliant @vickymackenzie.bsky.social and I will be talking about #awomanofopinion and her superb #forthygreatpain this Saturday at #blairgowrie Would be lovely to see you there! #paperback #history #novels
Out THIS week. Do drop into your local #bookshop and pick up a copy. You will make an author (and yourself, I hope!) ever so happy. #AWomanofOpinion #paperback #marywortleymontagu
#penguinbooks #historicalnovel @doubledayuk.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @davidhheadley.bsky.social
#penguinbooks #historicalnovel @doubledayuk.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @davidhheadley.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Out THIS week. Do drop into your local #bookshop and pick up a copy. You will make an author (and yourself, I hope!) ever so happy. #AWomanofOpinion #paperback #marywortleymontagu
#penguinbooks #historicalnovel @doubledayuk.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @davidhheadley.bsky.social
#penguinbooks #historicalnovel @doubledayuk.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @davidhheadley.bsky.social
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A week today! 📚🤩
We’d love to see you at #Blairgowrie on 3rd May when the brilliant @vickymackenzie.bsky.social and I will be talking about amazing women written out of history. @doubledayuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #awomanofopinion #forthygreatpain
April 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A week today! 📚🤩
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Novelist @seanluskauthor.bsky.social and I will be reading from our #historicalnovels at #Blairgowrie in 10 days time! As well as discussing the brilliant women featured in our novels there will be home-baking and a raffle! 🍰☕📚
Sat 3rd May 2pm. Tix and details: www.bookmarkblair.com/events/bookm...
Sat 3rd May 2pm. Tix and details: www.bookmarkblair.com/events/bookm...
April 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Novelist @seanluskauthor.bsky.social and I will be reading from our #historicalnovels at #Blairgowrie in 10 days time! As well as discussing the brilliant women featured in our novels there will be home-baking and a raffle! 🍰☕📚
Sat 3rd May 2pm. Tix and details: www.bookmarkblair.com/events/bookm...
Sat 3rd May 2pm. Tix and details: www.bookmarkblair.com/events/bookm...
Zachary doing a grand job unboxing copies of #AWomanofOpinion - out in paperback on 1st May! @doubledayuk.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social #historicalnovels #womeninhistory #inoculation
April 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Zachary doing a grand job unboxing copies of #AWomanofOpinion - out in paperback on 1st May! @doubledayuk.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social #historicalnovels #womeninhistory #inoculation