Elle McNicoll 🏴♾️
@ellemcnicoll.bsky.social
Autistic. Bestselling author and award winning screenwriter. Agent: Lauren Gardner.
Winner of Blue Peter Award & Overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize, 21. Emmy nominated #AKindOfSpark streaming on BBC iPlayer now!
https://linktr.ee/ellemcnicoll
Winner of Blue Peter Award & Overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize, 21. Emmy nominated #AKindOfSpark streaming on BBC iPlayer now!
https://linktr.ee/ellemcnicoll
WISH YOU WERE HER is in the YA category of the Books Are My Bag Reader Awards.
this is my 6th nom, making me the most nominated author in the history of this award.
I also, hilariously, never win.
you can vote and be in with the chance of winning £100 of book tokens!
Link below, closes tomorrow
this is my 6th nom, making me the most nominated author in the history of this award.
I also, hilariously, never win.
you can vote and be in with the chance of winning £100 of book tokens!
Link below, closes tomorrow
October 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
WISH YOU WERE HER is in the YA category of the Books Are My Bag Reader Awards.
this is my 6th nom, making me the most nominated author in the history of this award.
I also, hilariously, never win.
you can vote and be in with the chance of winning £100 of book tokens!
Link below, closes tomorrow
this is my 6th nom, making me the most nominated author in the history of this award.
I also, hilariously, never win.
you can vote and be in with the chance of winning £100 of book tokens!
Link below, closes tomorrow
If you too have been afflicted by a terminal uniqueness, and been made to apologise for it?
Fuck 'em.
Unapologetic Love Story is out on World Autism Day and the hardback is currently in the Waterstones Preorder Sale.
I highly recommend.
Fuck 'em.
Unapologetic Love Story is out on World Autism Day and the hardback is currently in the Waterstones Preorder Sale.
I highly recommend.
October 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
If you too have been afflicted by a terminal uniqueness, and been made to apologise for it?
Fuck 'em.
Unapologetic Love Story is out on World Autism Day and the hardback is currently in the Waterstones Preorder Sale.
I highly recommend.
Fuck 'em.
Unapologetic Love Story is out on World Autism Day and the hardback is currently in the Waterstones Preorder Sale.
I highly recommend.
September 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
99p for a short time only!
Bookshops are my preference, bur if you can only read ebooks, then WISH YOU WERE HER is currently a steal!!
Bookshops are my preference, bur if you can only read ebooks, then WISH YOU WERE HER is currently a steal!!
September 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
99p for a short time only!
Bookshops are my preference, bur if you can only read ebooks, then WISH YOU WERE HER is currently a steal!!
Bookshops are my preference, bur if you can only read ebooks, then WISH YOU WERE HER is currently a steal!!
Heading home to Scotland for the @edbookfest and the @islaybookfest
School event with EdBookFest tomorrow.
Signing all across Edinburgh bookshops on Thursday.
Launch of ROLE MODEL on Saturday.
YA panel at EdBookFest on Sunday! Tickets on their website.
Then Islay!
School event with EdBookFest tomorrow.
Signing all across Edinburgh bookshops on Thursday.
Launch of ROLE MODEL on Saturday.
YA panel at EdBookFest on Sunday! Tickets on their website.
Then Islay!
August 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Heading home to Scotland for the @edbookfest and the @islaybookfest
School event with EdBookFest tomorrow.
Signing all across Edinburgh bookshops on Thursday.
Launch of ROLE MODEL on Saturday.
YA panel at EdBookFest on Sunday! Tickets on their website.
Then Islay!
School event with EdBookFest tomorrow.
Signing all across Edinburgh bookshops on Thursday.
Launch of ROLE MODEL on Saturday.
YA panel at EdBookFest on Sunday! Tickets on their website.
Then Islay!
We took some fun pictures for something.
Announcement coming tomorrow: 12pm!
Announcement coming tomorrow: 12pm!
July 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We took some fun pictures for something.
Announcement coming tomorrow: 12pm!
Announcement coming tomorrow: 12pm!
One month since we launched WISH YOU WERE HER at the Hay Festival.
The readers have been SENSATIONAL!!!!
The readers have been SENSATIONAL!!!!
June 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
One month since we launched WISH YOU WERE HER at the Hay Festival.
The readers have been SENSATIONAL!!!!
The readers have been SENSATIONAL!!!!
Shut the front door! First MG/YA event to sell out!?
You guys are insane for this!
You guys are insane for this!
June 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Shut the front door! First MG/YA event to sell out!?
You guys are insane for this!
You guys are insane for this!
Summer in Lake Pristine ☀️
June 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Summer in Lake Pristine ☀️
Next tour stop for WISH YOU WERE HER is Waterstones Bath tomorrow (wed 18th) at 6:30pm!
Tickets linked below, free Lake Pristine Book Festival gifts to first people through the door!
www.waterstones.com/events/wish-...
Tickets linked below, free Lake Pristine Book Festival gifts to first people through the door!
www.waterstones.com/events/wish-...
June 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Next tour stop for WISH YOU WERE HER is Waterstones Bath tomorrow (wed 18th) at 6:30pm!
Tickets linked below, free Lake Pristine Book Festival gifts to first people through the door!
www.waterstones.com/events/wish-...
Tickets linked below, free Lake Pristine Book Festival gifts to first people through the door!
www.waterstones.com/events/wish-...
WISH YOU WERE HER is now my most reviewed book on Waterstones (apart from A Kind of Spark, which tbf won the overall children's prize) after being out for just one week!!
Thank you so much to everyone who has read and reviewed. Tour continues this Wednesday as we arrive in Bath!
Thank you so much to everyone who has read and reviewed. Tour continues this Wednesday as we arrive in Bath!
June 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
WISH YOU WERE HER is now my most reviewed book on Waterstones (apart from A Kind of Spark, which tbf won the overall children's prize) after being out for just one week!!
Thank you so much to everyone who has read and reviewed. Tour continues this Wednesday as we arrive in Bath!
Thank you so much to everyone who has read and reviewed. Tour continues this Wednesday as we arrive in Bath!
Preorders at West End Lane Books are now signed. Thank you so much!!!
June 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Preorders at West End Lane Books are now signed. Thank you so much!!!
Oh, Waterstones Norwich!!!
See you soon!!! 👀
See you soon!!! 👀
June 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Oh, Waterstones Norwich!!!
See you soon!!! 👀
See you soon!!! 👀
It's Publication Day!
WISH YOU WERE HER is out in all good bookshops!!!
A summery teenage love story between two autistic young adults. Book festival drama, paparazzi madness and lots of yearning.
Out now.
WISH YOU WERE HER is out in all good bookshops!!!
A summery teenage love story between two autistic young adults. Book festival drama, paparazzi madness and lots of yearning.
Out now.
June 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
It's Publication Day!
WISH YOU WERE HER is out in all good bookshops!!!
A summery teenage love story between two autistic young adults. Book festival drama, paparazzi madness and lots of yearning.
Out now.
WISH YOU WERE HER is out in all good bookshops!!!
A summery teenage love story between two autistic young adults. Book festival drama, paparazzi madness and lots of yearning.
Out now.
Chuffed and proud. Thanks, Week Junior. See you in September.
June 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Chuffed and proud. Thanks, Week Junior. See you in September.
My new Middle Grade: Role Model.
Out September 4th.
Out September 4th.
May 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
My new Middle Grade: Role Model.
Out September 4th.
Out September 4th.
One of two big announcements coming this summer. And no, it's not AKOS related--don't hate me.
May 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
One of two big announcements coming this summer. And no, it's not AKOS related--don't hate me.
Cheeseburger to go!
May 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Cheeseburger to go!
I've been made aware that early copies of WISH YOU WERE HER are now being read.
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May 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I've been made aware that early copies of WISH YOU WERE HER are now being read.
🤣🤣
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This is a love story between an autistic in the TV world and an autistic bookseller.
I have been both, funnily enough.
In the end, I think this is a love letter to booksellers. To their independent thinking. The way they cannot be bribed, bought or bullied.
I have been both, funnily enough.
In the end, I think this is a love letter to booksellers. To their independent thinking. The way they cannot be bribed, bought or bullied.
May 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This is a love story between an autistic in the TV world and an autistic bookseller.
I have been both, funnily enough.
In the end, I think this is a love letter to booksellers. To their independent thinking. The way they cannot be bribed, bought or bullied.
I have been both, funnily enough.
In the end, I think this is a love letter to booksellers. To their independent thinking. The way they cannot be bribed, bought or bullied.
🚨 WISH YOU WERE HER is going on tour! 🚨
YA novel about a child actor turned movie star who wants a quiet summer working in a book festival! Chaos ensues.
All tickets are on sale now!
In a world currently saying autistics are unwanted, I say (respectfully) get tae fuck!!!
YA novel about a child actor turned movie star who wants a quiet summer working in a book festival! Chaos ensues.
All tickets are on sale now!
In a world currently saying autistics are unwanted, I say (respectfully) get tae fuck!!!
May 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🚨 WISH YOU WERE HER is going on tour! 🚨
YA novel about a child actor turned movie star who wants a quiet summer working in a book festival! Chaos ensues.
All tickets are on sale now!
In a world currently saying autistics are unwanted, I say (respectfully) get tae fuck!!!
YA novel about a child actor turned movie star who wants a quiet summer working in a book festival! Chaos ensues.
All tickets are on sale now!
In a world currently saying autistics are unwanted, I say (respectfully) get tae fuck!!!
As an autistic, I never get called 'perfect' so this is really nice.
Wish You Were Her is out in June!!
Wish You Were Her is out in June!!
April 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
As an autistic, I never get called 'perfect' so this is really nice.
Wish You Were Her is out in June!!
Wish You Were Her is out in June!!
I write happy autistic children's books because I wanted to be a happy autistic child
I write YA romance because it saved my life when I was a teenager
Today, I finally got a negative test result after years of screenings, blood tests, biopsies and bad memories.
I'm not what was done to me at 14.
I write YA romance because it saved my life when I was a teenager
Today, I finally got a negative test result after years of screenings, blood tests, biopsies and bad memories.
I'm not what was done to me at 14.
March 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I write happy autistic children's books because I wanted to be a happy autistic child
I write YA romance because it saved my life when I was a teenager
Today, I finally got a negative test result after years of screenings, blood tests, biopsies and bad memories.
I'm not what was done to me at 14.
I write YA romance because it saved my life when I was a teenager
Today, I finally got a negative test result after years of screenings, blood tests, biopsies and bad memories.
I'm not what was done to me at 14.