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Elizabeth
@elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
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Author - THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE - Feb 25 (UK) May 25 (US) with Dialogue and Legacy Lit
🌈☎️✨ I like games, books, art & crafts ✨newsletter/blog: the tiny narrative ✨ she/her

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Stunned to be on this longlist in such incredible company! 🩷🩷

“The Gordon Burn Prize recognises exceptional writing which has an unconventional perspective, style or subject matter and often defies easy categorisation.” @newwritingnorth.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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I retain the right to oscillate between the two

(without downloading new pics what’s it like dating you, or just knowing you tbh)
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Winter Burrow was a very sweet survival sim - there’s a gentle story about community wrapped up in an easy, pretty straight forward crafting loop. At six hours it didn’t outstay its welcome and that mouse is so darn adorable. Loved that knitting was a central part of the crafting!
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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love having the morning off work - racing through this proof about an unusual court case in the UK that covers queer and online identities, truth and deception as well as some fascinating legal history. very happy to have a new scarf knit on the go as well 🧶❤️
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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possibly the grimmiest book list I've seen in a while (via my local council library)
October 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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one day you wake up post-35 and realise you have become the Lorax and it time to get better tweezers
September 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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go go go 🌬️
September 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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if anything happens to these little weirdos I’m gunna be really really sad #Herdlings @okomotive.ch

one of them has a flower crown now 🥺
August 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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so far we’ve raised over £1000 for Loneon Friend - the LGBTQ+ charity that house the lesbian telephone helpline I write about in my book!

To celebrate there’s 10% off on my online shop with the code DYKEMARKET10 until end of Aug!

merch-by-elizabeth.sumupstore.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I've only ever worked in trad publishing (in Production) but this is so deeply alarming that they were essentially using author profits to cover their production and marketing costs and would attempt to cover up they were doing so. That's just not how making a book works!!
The cost of reprints came out of authors’ profits, a detail that some authors and agents allege was not always stated in their contracts. Other expenses, such as marketing, also came out of authors’ profits – some say they are still unsure how that money was spent. At least eight authors describe receiving their royalty statements and being surprised by deductions or that they had made little profit, despite raising more funding than required or achieving strong sales.
August 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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deeply invested in this new factory building game Kaizen: A Factory Story from @coincidence.games so much so that I just made my wife watch this step by step even though she had no idea what was happening

(spoilers I guess, but if it helps I'm not v good!)

#indiegames #gif
July 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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it’s my US pub date today!! I’m at home in London celebrating in style 😌✌🏼
May 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE is out May 27th in the US and my finished copies have arrived!! They’re so beautiful ✨

#booksky #queerbooks
a picture of a box of books: THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE by Elizabeth Lovatt the cover features telephone wires and two women speaking on the phone a picture of the back of the book THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE
May 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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surprising no one I’m loving Clair Obscur : Expedition 33 - manages to balance pathos and silliness, dark souls like mechanics and JRPG stylings. Love how there’s so much extra content and all it will get you is a new haircut (seriously)
May 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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hate that we have to protest but love that so many of us showed up 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️

dykes for trans rights always and forever 🩷
April 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Edinburgh via food ✨
March 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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but it's all about protecting women right???

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“The fact that Rojas is not a physician is central to Paxton’s strategy,” Ziegler writes. “He claims that the prosecution will protect women from unlicensed and presumably unsafe providers … [he wants] to signal that midwives who provide abortions are unsafe, unqualified, and dishonest.” This attack on the credibility of midwives – particularly non-white midwives – isn’t new. The Guardian notes that: “As abortion bans spread across the country in the 19th century, midwives were often driven out of work or faced criminal consequences, which in turn led white, male doctors to siphon up their patients and dominate the medical field. Rojas isn’t getting some sort of slap on the wrist; the full force of the state is coming after her. She was reportedly pulled over by police at gunpoint while on her way to a clinic and the abortion charge is a second-degree felony, which comes with up to 20 years in prison. Meanwhile, according to the Texas Tribune, the state recommended Rojas and Ley each be held on a million-dollar bond. A million dollars! (In the end, a judge ordered their bonds each be set at $500,000 for the abortion-related charges and $200,000 for the medical license charges.) To put this in perspective, a Texas elementary school teacher arrested earlier this month after a “large quantity” of child sexual abuse materials was reportedly found on his devices, is being held in jail on a $75,000 bond.
March 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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unclear if this is good or bad news
Image of Guardian headline that reads: Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists
March 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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being a woman and a lesbian is complicated but I also love it - here’s what much cleverer people than me have to say about it

(from my book THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE)
March 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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is it hayfever or is it a cold? SOLVED
images shows pollen count: grass low, trees high, weeds low
March 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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white rabbits!! 🐰🐰 it’s March!

I don’t have an actual rabbit to share so take this picture of Dave (close enough)
a picture of a sleepy dachshund lying on his back with his ears flopped above his head, his paws rest just over the blanket be is on
March 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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wow can’t believe lgbt+ history month in the UK is almost over and that means I’m not allowed to talk about my lesbian history book until next year (with a little mention in June for a treat)

we had a good time while it lasted 🫡
a hand holds the book THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE while rainbow light is shining on the cover
February 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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fuck me up Anne !!!

god this piece is so good and touched on so much in a short space

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
February 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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sorry not sorry to be on brand but my one example is gay: Kate Charlesworth’s Sensible Footwear is a memoir that covers a lot of UK queer history !
February 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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had so much fun @thebookishtype.bsky.social last night talking about phone lines, spice girls and lesbian tiktok !! Was lovely to chat to people after about their own archival and queer history project too. I love Leeds - if you’re ever there don’t skip this bookshop!!
elizabeth reads from THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE she is sitting on a stool wearing a blue vest - Nicola next to hear is wearing a hoodie elizabeth and the author Jake Hall pose together with a copy of their books: THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE and Shoulder to Shoulder in front of a bookshelf a stack of fizzy drink xmas with the sign “pop £1.50” a picture of the outside of the bookshop the Bookish Type with inclusive pride flags hanging in the window. the outside of the bookshop is painted pink
February 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM