Stuart Wilson
@stuwilsonwrites.bsky.social
Author of THE 113th ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN and the PROMETHEUS HIGH books • Represented by Melanie Ostell Literary • He/him • Naarm/Melbourne • https://www.readings.com.au/events/lost-in-a-book-by-stuart-wilson
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The launch for Lost in a Book is, appropriately, happening on Love Your Bookshop Day! 2pm at Readings Kids in Carlton on 11 October, hosted by the amazing Karys McEwen! Link in bio for tickets 📖🐱✨
The 113th Assistant Librarian now has a friend! Lost in a Book continues Oliver and Agatha's adventures as they are confronted with a very special edition of a book that may spell doom for both Hallarum and the Shrouded Alps. More literary peril! More London! And a giant spider crab! (Shudder!)
September 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The 113th Assistant Librarian now has a friend! Lost in a Book continues Oliver and Agatha's adventures as they are confronted with a very special edition of a book that may spell doom for both Hallarum and the Shrouded Alps. More literary peril! More London! And a giant spider crab! (Shudder!)
The launch for Lost in a Book is, appropriately, happening on Love Your Bookshop Day! 2pm at Readings Kids in Carlton on 11 October, hosted by the amazing Karys McEwen! Link in bio for tickets 📖🐱✨
September 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The launch for Lost in a Book is, appropriately, happening on Love Your Bookshop Day! 2pm at Readings Kids in Carlton on 11 October, hosted by the amazing Karys McEwen! Link in bio for tickets 📖🐱✨
The launch for The 113th Assistant Librarian: Lost in a Book will be held @readingskids in Carlton on 11 October 2025 at 2pm! Please, please come along and remember to book - it's free! Would love to see you there! www.readings.com.au/events/lost-...
September 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The launch for The 113th Assistant Librarian: Lost in a Book will be held @readingskids in Carlton on 11 October 2025 at 2pm! Please, please come along and remember to book - it's free! Would love to see you there! www.readings.com.au/events/lost-...
Little bit in love with the cover design for the Russian translation of The 113th Assistant Librarian!
September 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Little bit in love with the cover design for the Russian translation of The 113th Assistant Librarian!
Fascinated by the fact that in Netflix's Fear Street: Prom Queen, every single instance of the heroine's tortured backstory is ADR dialogue delivered by someone off-camera. They changed the backstory in post! Please tell me someone else noticed this... #horrormovie
September 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Fascinated by the fact that in Netflix's Fear Street: Prom Queen, every single instance of the heroine's tortured backstory is ADR dialogue delivered by someone off-camera. They changed the backstory in post! Please tell me someone else noticed this... #horrormovie
Thank you! And it's hard to think of a worse first few days on the job! 🙃
Thanks to @libro.fm and @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social , I am loving @stuwilsonwrites.bsky.social The 113th Assistant Librarian. The things you put this poor kid through, Stuart :D
September 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Thank you! And it's hard to think of a worse first few days on the job! 🙃
Thanks to a question from a translator, I just discovered a punchline in my published book that doesn't make sense. 🙃 Love this for me!
August 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Thanks to a question from a translator, I just discovered a punchline in my published book that doesn't make sense. 🙃 Love this for me!
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I have lived through an era in which I had almost any information at my fingertips, where with savvy search skills I could find whatever I wanted, a facility with information Diderot would have wept to have.
I'm sixty. I remember before Google and easy reliable search. And now I have outlived it.
I'm sixty. I remember before Google and easy reliable search. And now I have outlived it.
July 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I have lived through an era in which I had almost any information at my fingertips, where with savvy search skills I could find whatever I wanted, a facility with information Diderot would have wept to have.
I'm sixty. I remember before Google and easy reliable search. And now I have outlived it.
I'm sixty. I remember before Google and easy reliable search. And now I have outlived it.
What do you see? Kaneda? What do you see?!
On Sunday I traveled to the middle of the desert to capture this: The ISS against our sun. What I didn't expect: the sun producing a magnificent flare at the same time
A once-in-a-lifetime shot I'm thrilled to share with you. See the uncropped shot or get the print in the reply
A once-in-a-lifetime shot I'm thrilled to share with you. See the uncropped shot or get the print in the reply
July 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
What do you see? Kaneda? What do you see?!
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As someone who has wanted to be a writer from the earliest point I can remember, I resent the act of writing a lot. Because it’s extremely fucking hard and time-consuming and painful and oftentimes thankless. But that’s what you sign up for when you decide to write. There are no shortcuts.
June 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
As someone who has wanted to be a writer from the earliest point I can remember, I resent the act of writing a lot. Because it’s extremely fucking hard and time-consuming and painful and oftentimes thankless. But that’s what you sign up for when you decide to write. There are no shortcuts.
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Excellent advice. Every scene you write should contribute to developing or advancing your plot, characters or setting. Ideally, any two of the three.
Your 'downtime' scenes have to advance the story just as much as a chase or confrontation does. They advance the intellectual/emotional aspects.
Never think of them as filler.
Give them purpose.
Never think of them as filler.
Give them purpose.
June 9, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Excellent advice. Every scene you write should contribute to developing or advancing your plot, characters or setting. Ideally, any two of the three.
I'm in awe of how good the Netflix animated Asterix and the Big Fight adaptation was. All the contemporary touches felt 100% in the spirit of the original. Hope we get more books adapted!
May 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I'm in awe of how good the Netflix animated Asterix and the Big Fight adaptation was. All the contemporary touches felt 100% in the spirit of the original. Hope we get more books adapted!
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i don't need this ai bubble to pop i need it to shatter into thousands of pieces like an old thermometer, each shard lodging mercury splinters into the eyes and ears and under the nails of every linkedin grifter who used chat gpt to generate an "adapt or die" post or some banality about emdashes
May 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
i don't need this ai bubble to pop i need it to shatter into thousands of pieces like an old thermometer, each shard lodging mercury splinters into the eyes and ears and under the nails of every linkedin grifter who used chat gpt to generate an "adapt or die" post or some banality about emdashes
Honoured that The 113th Assistant Librarian has made the 2025 KOALA awards shortlist! Ecstatic that young readers so enjoyed a book about a kid who loves books!
May 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Honoured that The 113th Assistant Librarian has made the 2025 KOALA awards shortlist! Ecstatic that young readers so enjoyed a book about a kid who loves books!
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Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
May 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
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Congratulations to @sularigentill.bsky.social, winner of The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award for The Mystery Writer (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press). #Edgars2025
May 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Congratulations to @sularigentill.bsky.social, winner of The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award for The Mystery Writer (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press). #Edgars2025
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Okay, a lot of people are expressing outrage about this, and I also feel outrage about this, but since everyone else has already expressed my feelings for me, I'm going to put on my Teacher of Analytical Thinking Pants and point out something important.
Statement From Worldcon Chair: We have received questions regarding Seattle’s use of AI tools in our vetting process for program participants. In the interest of transparency, we will explain the process of how we are using a Large… seattlein2025.org?p=3859
Statement From Worldcon Chair
We have received questions regarding Seattle’s use of AI tools in our vetting process for program participants. In the interest of transparency, we will explain the process of how we are using a Large...
seattlein2025.org
April 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Okay, a lot of people are expressing outrage about this, and I also feel outrage about this, but since everyone else has already expressed my feelings for me, I'm going to put on my Teacher of Analytical Thinking Pants and point out something important.
Introducing The 113th Assistant Librarian: Lost in a Book! It's being released on 30 September 2025, and pre-orders are available now! (link in bio).
The stunning artwork is by Federica Frenna and the design is by unparalleled Kristy Lund-White and I can't wait to have it in my hands!
The stunning artwork is by Federica Frenna and the design is by unparalleled Kristy Lund-White and I can't wait to have it in my hands!
April 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Introducing The 113th Assistant Librarian: Lost in a Book! It's being released on 30 September 2025, and pre-orders are available now! (link in bio).
The stunning artwork is by Federica Frenna and the design is by unparalleled Kristy Lund-White and I can't wait to have it in my hands!
The stunning artwork is by Federica Frenna and the design is by unparalleled Kristy Lund-White and I can't wait to have it in my hands!
Just read the blurb for @janecaro.bsky.social 's new thriller, Lyrebird, and am quietly stunned by the brilliance of that premise ... 🤩
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
Lyrebird - Jane Caro
Lyrebird - Jane Caro
www.allenandunwin.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Just read the blurb for @janecaro.bsky.social 's new thriller, Lyrebird, and am quietly stunned by the brilliance of that premise ... 🤩
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
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The only thing more terrifying than standing up to fascism is what will happen if we lie down for it.
March 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The only thing more terrifying than standing up to fascism is what will happen if we lie down for it.
Had a wonderful time at the opening of @qbdbooks Greensborough Plaza with three incredible wordsmiths! Lovely to meet Laura McClusky, Mark Smith and Geoff Parkes, as well as the friendly and knowledgeable staff!
March 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Had a wonderful time at the opening of @qbdbooks Greensborough Plaza with three incredible wordsmiths! Lovely to meet Laura McClusky, Mark Smith and Geoff Parkes, as well as the friendly and knowledgeable staff!
Oh wow! The 113th Assistant Librarian made the ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children shortlist! Congratulations to the other nominees and thanks ABIA 🙏
March 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Oh wow! The 113th Assistant Librarian made the ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children shortlist! Congratulations to the other nominees and thanks ABIA 🙏
Me when I see that my neighbours in the apartment next door have motion flow on their TV 😳
March 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Me when I see that my neighbours in the apartment next door have motion flow on their TV 😳
Ordering a new dishwasher and came across this ever-so-helpful recommendation. Good to see that Alan is doing his share of the housework by * checks notes * writing the whitegood reviews...
March 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Ordering a new dishwasher and came across this ever-so-helpful recommendation. Good to see that Alan is doing his share of the housework by * checks notes * writing the whitegood reviews...
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“not all men”
you’re right, Garrus Vakarian would never.
you’re right, Garrus Vakarian would never.
March 15, 2025 at 4:55 AM
“not all men”
you’re right, Garrus Vakarian would never.
you’re right, Garrus Vakarian would never.