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Luke Belcourt
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Adventure LGBT fantasy writer✨🔮 VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS now available!

he/him | bi | witch | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Me reaching at the first image of Nicnevin and looking up at you like
Shrek pulling a “lol this is gay as hell Shona” face
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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The rapture of coming into the group chat like "A second update has hit the AITA post."
George Bush being told about 9/11
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Could a depressed person make this??

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Cover of 'Vampires in Park Circus' now available at your local bookstore
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Stood up with full intention to go to a panel, then bailed and sat on a bench

Brighton is gorgeous!
Seafront view from a grassy patch overlooking the Brighton i360 which I think is some kind of ride to view the city?
November 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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It’s out!!! It’s left the nest!!!

Available now in paperback and ebook! 😭😭
End of Shawshank Redemption. Andy DuFresne holds his hands up to the sky in the rain after digging out of a jail cell for 10 years with a spoon
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Three days to go, my friends 👀

Don’t miss out as the Coven of Merchant City enter their darkest hour…

Get your pre-orders in now: lukebelcourt.com/witches/two....
October 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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It's six days until Witches 2 releases! 💜✨ Get your pre-orders in and fill your Samhain with queer witches and vampires!

Also, a reminder Witches of Merchant City is now available for £10 GBP/$12 USD, sporting the beautiful new cover art!

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The 2025 cover of Witches of Merchant City, drawn by Jenni Coutts. The cover for Vampires in Park Circus, drawn by Jenni Coutts.
October 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Don't usually post my Pokémon stuff but at 5:11pm I became the proud owner of a Shiny Alpha Mega Slowbro

I'm not sure if I'm the first person in the world to own one, but I'm almost definitely the first person in the world to own one caught in a Moon Ball 💜

As a Slowpoke collector, I am BUZZIN
Screenshot of Pokémon Legends ZA. Slowbro and the player sit at a cafe Screenshot of Pokémon Legends ZA. Alpha Slowbro next to (Large Sized) Slowbro from my gameplay. Screenshot of Pokémon Legends ZA. Slowbro stands close to the camera, glaikit look on his face, while the player does a pose in the background Screenshot of Pokémon Legends ZA. Slowbro has Mega Evolved so the Shellder has eaten his entire body. His face pokes out nonplussed.
October 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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10 days til release!! Beyond excited for this book to finally be in people’s hands!

Writing this was a four year project for me, and there were a lot of times when I thought it was literally never going to happen.

It’s the best thing I’ve ever written. I hope you like it half as much as I do <3
The cover for Vampires in Park Circus. It is drawn in the same style as the 2025 Witches cover -- fine black lineart, but the colour scheme is red rather than teal. A woman with long flowing black hair in a Kate Bush-esque gown runs towards the viewer. She looks behind her, afraid. Park Church Tower, a notable landmark in the centre of Park Circus, looms behind her. The same golden magic from the first book explodes from her head like psychic power.
October 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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"Grief is a dangerous thing in the hands of a necromancer..."

Not caught up in time for the release of VAMPIRES?

In the UK, the paperback of WITCHES OF MERCHANT CITY is now available for a tenner! (And in the US for $12!)

shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
The new front cover of Witches of Merchant City, drawn by Jenni Coutts. Intricate black-and-white lineart depicts a woman with a side-cut and a black leather jacket, in front of Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). Golden energy crackles from her hands, and green clouds swirl behind.
October 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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AAAAA I feel so, fuckin VALIDATED RIGHT NOWWWW

I knew it!!! I fuckin smelt it in the water!!!

Thank you senpai 🙏🏽
The Wikipedia entry for the Apologetic Apostrophe
October 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Ebook preorders are live on all platforms!

Paperback pre-orders are live in the US on Barnes and Noble, UK coming ASAP

Look at this gorgeous cover! Rendered by the wonderful @jennicoutts.bsky.social, who somehow managed to turn my disconnected ramblings into art I’ve been staring at for days 😂
Image of the cover in previous tweet
September 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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COVER REVEAL! 🎉

After what feels like a lifetime, I finally get to show you what I've been working on the last few years! The long-awaited sequel, VAMPIRES IN PARK CIRCUS!

Coming Halloween 2025!

You can pre-order here! lukebelcourt.com/witches/two....
A photograph of the cover for Vampires in Park Circus. It is drawn in the same style as the 2025 Witches cover -- fine black lineart, but the colour scheme is red rather than teal. A woman with long flowing black hair in a Kate Bush-esque gown runs towards the viewer. She looks behind her, afraid. Park Church Tower, a notable landmark in the centre of Park Circus, looms behind her. The same golden magic from the first book explodes from her head like psychic power. The photograph is taken in a park, with tree cover behind it. The epigraph to the book: "A vampire moves to Scotland and makes friends with a local human at a bar. 'It's hard, not being able to go out in direct sunlight,' the vampire says. 'How long has it been since you've seen the sun?' the local asks. 'Since I died, nine years ago,' the vampire says. 'You?' The local finishes his drink. 'Fifteen long years. I remember it like it was yesterday.' - Anonymous
September 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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I refuse to believe it. Every time I think it will be easier! Every time I forget this hell, this pit of Tartarus!

And every time my boulder rolls back down the hill, the raven devours my liver, et cetera, et cetera, ET CETERA!!!
Andy Dufresne standing in the rain, eyes closed as he prostrates towards the sky at the end of Shawshank Redemption
September 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I cannot explain the context of this scene in Witches 3, but there are a couple of chapters where it dips into other genres and yesterday I was writing epic fantasy

I need you to know this is what I think all epic fantasy sounds like
Scrivener screenshot: “Do not forget A’Rah Bellah, your grandmother comes from the Kingdom of Wiie’Shight Baggs to the south. Treachery is in your blood, fair maiden.”
September 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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A thing of beauty ✨

Now in circulation!
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The new paperback cover for Witches of Merchant city, with a white curtain backdrop
September 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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It feels so fitting to me that all of Scrivener’s newsletters look like this on mobile.

I wonder if they used the Compile feature
September 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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The canal is made of matcha
Photo of the canal, the algae has gotten so thick this time of year by the locks that it literally looks like big green goop
September 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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A friend asked me a brief question about how two different Pokémon games connected and I spent an hour drawing a diagram on my iPad...

I need other people to see this so it's not completely wasted
An A4-sized diagram showing how all the Pokémon main series games connect together. If you read it top to bottom, it goes by release date, separated into layers by what console they came out on. If you read it left to right, it goes by in-world chronology. It gets vague towards the bottom-right of the diagram, which annoys people who are even bigger anoraks than me about this sort of thing
September 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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😵‍💫😵‍💫 my friend Malamar…. MY FRIEND MALAMAR!! #MyFriendMalamar #MalamarMoments
A heavily filtered photo from Pokémon Scarlet with love hearts everywhere. The player smiles vacantly at the camera while Shiny Malamar stands menacingly behind them Pokémon summary from Pokémon Scarlet: Shiny Malamar has been caught in a Friend Ball, is nicknamed “My Friend”, and has been given the title “My Friend the Great Friend”.
September 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Pokémon card scalpers be like
A picture of Lawrence III, the antagonist of Pokémon the Movie 2000. He has a truly diabolical green hairline with big wispy sideburns and is looking vacantly into the middle distance while holding an Ancient Mew card like it's the only thing that gives his life meaning.
September 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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COVER EVOLUTION!!

With the release of the sequel incoming, WITCHES OF MERCHANT CITY has gotten a brand new cover drawn by the inimitable @jennicoutts.bsky.social!

Look at it!! *grabby hands*
The new 2025 cover for Witches of Merchant City. It is drawn with fine black lineart with teal rumbling clouds in the background on a starry night. The protagonist, Holly Winter, stands in front of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow City Centre, her leather jacket swirling behind her as golden magic crackles from her hands.
September 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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The ancient texts of wisdom, preserved for future generations
A GameFaqs guide for Final Fantasy X for the PS2. The logo is lovingly rendered in ascii art
August 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I love my bike 😭

I love being able to go out and feel the wind.

A wee flock of sparrows just flew alongside me and I swear every time I go out to fuck about I’m like
The opening of Pokémon Emerald. The protagonist, May, rides her bike alongside a menagerie of Pokémon
August 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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I cannot stop thinking about Pokémon World Championships 2025 Jacket Pikachu

Look at him 😭😭😭
Pikachu sits in the front seat of a car, he looks surprised and very round. Poking into the shot are Jigglypuff and Fennekin
August 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM