Amy Lilwall
@amylilwall.bsky.social
Writer. Novelist. Very bad at social media.
amylilwall.co.uk
amylilwall.co.uk
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 ✨️☕️🐈🍰📚
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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Eek! One week to go! 💙📚
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Eek! One week to go! 💙📚
Publication date is coming! 😮 I'll be at Lincoln's lovely Lark Books where my friend and fellow writer, Robert Weston, will be interviewing me about my book. (Really hope he likes it, otherwise things could get very awkward...).
Join us and find out! 💙📚✨️
lincolnbookfestival.org/festival-pro...
Join us and find out! 💙📚✨️
lincolnbookfestival.org/festival-pro...
September 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Publication date is coming! 😮 I'll be at Lincoln's lovely Lark Books where my friend and fellow writer, Robert Weston, will be interviewing me about my book. (Really hope he likes it, otherwise things could get very awkward...).
Join us and find out! 💙📚✨️
lincolnbookfestival.org/festival-pro...
Join us and find out! 💙📚✨️
lincolnbookfestival.org/festival-pro...
I'm on the front cover of something! This has never happened in the history of me!! 😀 As part of Lincoln Book Festival, I'll be launching The Water That May Come at Lark Books on the 3rd October from 7pm at the wonderful Lark Books. If you're in the area, please pop in and say hi. 😊✨️📘
September 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I'm on the front cover of something! This has never happened in the history of me!! 😀 As part of Lincoln Book Festival, I'll be launching The Water That May Come at Lark Books on the 3rd October from 7pm at the wonderful Lark Books. If you're in the area, please pop in and say hi. 😊✨️📘
Oooo the books (complete with their EDGES) have arrived! 📚 Thank you @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social; they are beautiful! ✨️
September 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Oooo the books (complete with their EDGES) have arrived! 📚 Thank you @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social; they are beautiful! ✨️
Happy publication day, @rgrosvenorauthor.bsky.social, for the fabulous Witch Borne ✨️
September 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Happy publication day, @rgrosvenorauthor.bsky.social, for the fabulous Witch Borne ✨️
Very inspired by parambulating poet John Welsh at Lincoln Steampunk Festival this week 🦾✨️🦄
'Leather, lace and parrots
every punk uniquely dressed
as unalike as peas and carrots.'
Never a truer word spoken (apparently, there were parrots!).
'Leather, lace and parrots
every punk uniquely dressed
as unalike as peas and carrots.'
Never a truer word spoken (apparently, there were parrots!).
August 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Very inspired by parambulating poet John Welsh at Lincoln Steampunk Festival this week 🦾✨️🦄
'Leather, lace and parrots
every punk uniquely dressed
as unalike as peas and carrots.'
Never a truer word spoken (apparently, there were parrots!).
'Leather, lace and parrots
every punk uniquely dressed
as unalike as peas and carrots.'
Never a truer word spoken (apparently, there were parrots!).
August bank holiday in Lincoln means one thing: The Steampunk Parade! Nothing warms the heart quite like a collaborative commitment to mass silliness. Thank you to all the participants; you are properly fabulous ✨️🧚♂️
August 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
August bank holiday in Lincoln means one thing: The Steampunk Parade! Nothing warms the heart quite like a collaborative commitment to mass silliness. Thank you to all the participants; you are properly fabulous ✨️🧚♂️
UPDATE ON THE INKED EDGES!!
My wonderful editor at @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social has opted for birds and sky (sneak peek below). Not sure what I have done to deserve this but I am GIDDY with excitement 😄✨️ AND you can pre-order via the link in comments (the whole book, not just the edges) 📘
My wonderful editor at @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social has opted for birds and sky (sneak peek below). Not sure what I have done to deserve this but I am GIDDY with excitement 😄✨️ AND you can pre-order via the link in comments (the whole book, not just the edges) 📘
August 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
UPDATE ON THE INKED EDGES!!
My wonderful editor at @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social has opted for birds and sky (sneak peek below). Not sure what I have done to deserve this but I am GIDDY with excitement 😄✨️ AND you can pre-order via the link in comments (the whole book, not just the edges) 📘
My wonderful editor at @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social has opted for birds and sky (sneak peek below). Not sure what I have done to deserve this but I am GIDDY with excitement 😄✨️ AND you can pre-order via the link in comments (the whole book, not just the edges) 📘
Look at this beautiful old printing press (displayed at The Museum of Lincolnshire Life). It's amazing to think that this is how printed stories made it into readers' hands, minds and hearts. 📚✨️
August 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Look at this beautiful old printing press (displayed at The Museum of Lincolnshire Life). It's amazing to think that this is how printed stories made it into readers' hands, minds and hearts. 📚✨️
Went to an EPIC wedding in Prešov this month. Slovakia is my home from home. (In fact, as a landlocked country, it appears in The Water That May Come as a place of refuge.) If you ever visit this amazing country, crash a wedding, dance 'til morning; find your refuge in a never-ending pile of cake ✨️🇸🇰
August 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Went to an EPIC wedding in Prešov this month. Slovakia is my home from home. (In fact, as a landlocked country, it appears in The Water That May Come as a place of refuge.) If you ever visit this amazing country, crash a wedding, dance 'til morning; find your refuge in a never-ending pile of cake ✨️🇸🇰
THRILLED to have the opportunity to read @ecow0rrier.bsky.social 's recently-launched After the Clearances, a chillingly plausible imagined aftermath of our intensifying climate catastrophe. Find a spot by the sea, or in the woods, and feel the world differently as you peel back the pages 🌊🌲
July 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
THRILLED to have the opportunity to read @ecow0rrier.bsky.social 's recently-launched After the Clearances, a chillingly plausible imagined aftermath of our intensifying climate catastrophe. Find a spot by the sea, or in the woods, and feel the world differently as you peel back the pages 🌊🌲
Met a very young author at Newark Book Festival today. Take a look at Abigail Humphries' gorgeous book, Team Of 7, about superheroes! 🦸⚡️
I particularly love the dedication; it's proof, in my opinion, that kids + books = marvelous things ✨️
I particularly love the dedication; it's proof, in my opinion, that kids + books = marvelous things ✨️
July 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Met a very young author at Newark Book Festival today. Take a look at Abigail Humphries' gorgeous book, Team Of 7, about superheroes! 🦸⚡️
I particularly love the dedication; it's proof, in my opinion, that kids + books = marvelous things ✨️
I particularly love the dedication; it's proof, in my opinion, that kids + books = marvelous things ✨️
I'M HOLDING IT IN MY VERY HANDS! First proof copy of TWTMC! Eeek! What a moment for a writer 🥹. My excitement is apparent in the rudimentarily styled pics below; it seems that creativity knows no bounds (I quite like the plants).
Thank you @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social ❤️
Thank you @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social ❤️
July 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I'M HOLDING IT IN MY VERY HANDS! First proof copy of TWTMC! Eeek! What a moment for a writer 🥹. My excitement is apparent in the rudimentarily styled pics below; it seems that creativity knows no bounds (I quite like the plants).
Thank you @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social ❤️
Thank you @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social ❤️
Apparently, Nuneaton is the furthest point from any UK coast. For that very reason, my character, Gavin, buys a house there. Every time I pass the motorway sign, I think of him, so last week I decided to stop and look around. It really felt like I'd come to visit a friend... Is that weird? 🤔
June 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Apparently, Nuneaton is the furthest point from any UK coast. For that very reason, my character, Gavin, buys a house there. Every time I pass the motorway sign, I think of him, so last week I decided to stop and look around. It really felt like I'd come to visit a friend... Is that weird? 🤔
Had a wonderful time with a lovely bunch of writers at The Rabbit Hole on Wednesday. Indie bookshops are generally delightful, but this one is truly magical. ✨️ If you're ever in the area, be sure to check them out 🐰
June 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Had a wonderful time with a lovely bunch of writers at The Rabbit Hole on Wednesday. Indie bookshops are generally delightful, but this one is truly magical. ✨️ If you're ever in the area, be sure to check them out 🐰
This week, we are running the University of Lincoln MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Residency at the beautiful Riseholme campus. There's some great writing happening, but most exciting of all are the cows splish-splashing in the lake by our classroom! Idyllic or what? 🐂🪻
June 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This week, we are running the University of Lincoln MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Residency at the beautiful Riseholme campus. There's some great writing happening, but most exciting of all are the cows splish-splashing in the lake by our classroom! Idyllic or what? 🐂🪻
Joy of JOYS! My lovely editor at @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social let slip that my novel will have painted edges of the SEA! 🌊🌊🌊
Wooohoooo!
I'll do a before and after. Here's what the edges look like now ⬇️ I've circled them for your convenience. (I'll have to post the 'after' in October, sorry.)
Wooohoooo!
I'll do a before and after. Here's what the edges look like now ⬇️ I've circled them for your convenience. (I'll have to post the 'after' in October, sorry.)
May 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Joy of JOYS! My lovely editor at @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social let slip that my novel will have painted edges of the SEA! 🌊🌊🌊
Wooohoooo!
I'll do a before and after. Here's what the edges look like now ⬇️ I've circled them for your convenience. (I'll have to post the 'after' in October, sorry.)
Wooohoooo!
I'll do a before and after. Here's what the edges look like now ⬇️ I've circled them for your convenience. (I'll have to post the 'after' in October, sorry.)
Splendid evening! Went to Wagamama's with lovely chum @zdmarriott.bsky.social and not ONLY did she give me a copy of her gorgeous just-unboxed novel 'The Moonlit Maze', but she taught me what spot UV means.
(In case you don't know, it means that the flowers on the front cover are shiny 🌸🌼🪻✨️)
(In case you don't know, it means that the flowers on the front cover are shiny 🌸🌼🪻✨️)
May 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Splendid evening! Went to Wagamama's with lovely chum @zdmarriott.bsky.social and not ONLY did she give me a copy of her gorgeous just-unboxed novel 'The Moonlit Maze', but she taught me what spot UV means.
(In case you don't know, it means that the flowers on the front cover are shiny 🌸🌼🪻✨️)
(In case you don't know, it means that the flowers on the front cover are shiny 🌸🌼🪻✨️)
Am supposed to be marking but got distracted by this beauty from @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social by @johnironmonger.bsky.social 🐻❄️✨️
Here's a haiku:
sunshine throughout May
my students' children will ask
what's a polar bear?
Here's a haiku:
sunshine throughout May
my students' children will ask
what's a polar bear?
May 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Am supposed to be marking but got distracted by this beauty from @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social by @johnironmonger.bsky.social 🐻❄️✨️
Here's a haiku:
sunshine throughout May
my students' children will ask
what's a polar bear?
Here's a haiku:
sunshine throughout May
my students' children will ask
what's a polar bear?
Magical May celebrations in Lincoln this week. Who doesn't love a Morris dancer? ✨️
May 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Magical May celebrations in Lincoln this week. Who doesn't love a Morris dancer? ✨️