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Laura Elliott
@tinywriterlaura.bsky.social
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Disabled writer of things. Bad at being on BlueSky. Debut novel AWAKENED out now with Angry Robot Books.

‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
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made friends with a Not My Cat who was in my garden today. not pictured: his incredibly fluffy tail
A young and very pretty black and white cat with a pink nose half-standing on a planter in a garden, staring at the camera
December 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I’VE BEEN SAYING
Laura’s book Awakened, featuring a creepy raven with a blue eye bearing the Tower of London on its back, against a blue background
December 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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we’re closing in on the end of 2025, so here’s my year in books! 66 in total, and a list of my favourites for you to peruse 📚

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2025 in Books
Well, 2025 has certainly been a year!
notesfromanunrulybody.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
tinywriterlaura.bsky.social
we’re closing in on the end of 2025, so here’s my year in books! 66 in total, and a list of my favourites for you to peruse 📚

notesfromanunrulybody.substack.com/p/2025-in-bo...
2025 in Books
Well, 2025 has certainly been a year!
notesfromanunrulybody.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
tinywriterlaura.bsky.social
so the ataxia is 3 weeks late & against all odds i made it to my mum’s for Boxing Day and we’re driving home now

me: i made the unanimous decision to get pissed to get it out of the way. i had a consultation with me & i agreed with me it would be the best course

james: … 🤦‍♂️
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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my brother did very well for james’s present this year!
James, a middle aged man with glasses and greying hair, half-hides behind a black t shirt showing a games controller and the words “levelled up to husband” on it
December 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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merry christmas hercule purrot fans! May you be as happy as he is playing in the wrapping paper 🎄
A white cat with grey markings and a black moustache sitting in a pile of wrapping paper staring at the camera
December 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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james: are you putting lord of the rings back on?

me: yeah, just while i decide what to do with my life

james: is that why we’ve been watching it for the last 10 years?

💀💀💀
December 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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i’m not saying there’s something wrong with the climate (i am) but i AM saying the daffodil bulbs i planted for spring are flourishing above the ground on the 22nd of december
December 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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next one nearly done. Dunsany iilos taking 2 days more than planned, each. Worth it. this is the dream.
the god pan looks out over an industrial landscape. wild roses in the foreground.
December 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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December has come around fast!

As promised, I'm going to try and post a daily advent thread of my top science fiction, fantasy, horror and spec fic books published in 2025 🤞

The bookshop gets a bit mad this month, but I'll try my best to keep up 🎄📚🪐

#SFF
#Booksky
December 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Happy Winter Solstice!

Beer can, pinhole camera photos of the Summer to Winter Solstice (2024) and the Winter to Summer Solstice (2025).

You never know quite what you're going to get with these photos, set the beer can pointing towards the sun at hopefully the correct angle and wait 6 months!
A pinhole camera photo taken from Summer to Winter Solstice. It's a bit blurry as the aperture was made with a tiny needle and no focus mechanism. There are yellow to green lines across the photo, that's the Sun moving across the sky over the course of a day. The top line is from the Summer Solstice, the bottom line from the Winter Solstice. Cloudy days don't have any lines or broken lines as the Sun was obscured by clouds. There are some trees on the left, right and in the background. A pinhole camera photo, a 6 month exposure from Summer to Winter solstice. There are trees on the right side and background. A house with two cars in the drive are visible almost in the center of the photo. The lines are made from the Sun moving across the sky with the bottom line being the Winter Solstice and the top line the Summer solstice. On cloudy days the lines are broken or not visible as the sun was obscured by clouds. The lines show some reflections from a tree trunk. The lines are mostly a white color with some hints of blue, green and yellow in places. Some of the colors could be from rain or snow staining the paper I was using. A solargram/pinhold camera photo taken from the Winter Solstice of 2024 (21 Dec) to Summer Solstice of 2025 (20 June). It's a 6 month long exposure taken with a beer can pinhole camera, it shows the sun's movement across the sky during that time period, each day the Sun scribes a line on the paper in the pinhole camera. The bottom line is Dec 21 2024 and the top line is 20 June 2025. This kind of photo makes the movement of the Sun during the day into visible trails on the paper in the camera. There is a long orange-yellow arc going across the paper showing the whole 6 months. There is a shadow of my tree on the image, the tree blossomed during the exposure. Shades of blue and pink are on the paper too. There is a black kind of semi circle at the top of the image, that's where the water was disintegrating the top part of the paper.
December 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Not now, enormous 68-million-year-old egg in Antarctica
December 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
tinywriterlaura.bsky.social
found my baby cover-out in Novel, my little local bookshop! very strange to be sitting on a shelf underneath this year’s Booker Prize winner 😳
Laura’s book Awakened with a raven on the cover sitting cover out on a bookshop bookshelf, underneath a shelf on which David Szalay’s Flesh is also cover out
December 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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got an ex-MP on Twitter QTing me defending Walliams and ‘witch hunts’. it’s clearly a mystery why these things stay in the whisper network for so long, huh 🙄
December 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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It’s the last #FridayReads before Christmas! Let’s share some books and boost all signals. Books are great gifts! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a piece of my soul that starts with a real event…

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December 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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hercule is very warm and fluffy this evening
Photo of a very fluffy white cat lying on a floor cushion in front of a lit wood burning stove
December 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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me & J have rewatched all the Knives Out films recently and while i enjoy them all and i know that -technically- it probably isn’t the best one, i’ve reaffirmed Glass Onion as my favourite because it’s ultimately the silliest and makes me laugh far more than it probably should
December 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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we go live to David Walliams’ front door
December 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Oh to be in the HarperCollins Slack right now
December 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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wait is the david walliams stuff finally coming out officially i’ve been hearing it over the whisper network for YEARS
December 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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i have sent replies to all of the messages/emails i’ve been anxiously ignoring for 2 weeks and it took me less than 30 minutes of focus. i think i deserve a mince pie.
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM