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Madeleine McQuilling
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PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, studying detective fiction

Currently trying to collect my contacts from other platforms
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Earlier this month, my cat and I embarked on our Phileas Foggiest voyage as yet. Car to plane to taxi to boat to shuttle to train to car again, in order to start my PhD at the University of Edinburgh.
My pile of luggage at the Amsterdam ferry terminal Fortunately, my cat found the siren song of piracy less tempting than the siren song of wet food and a warm bed. The ruins of Saint Anthony’s chapel in Holyrood Park Klingon is living her best life as a European poltergeist. She likes the views from our attic flat.
September 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Can Agatha Christie's fictional character's fictional character successfully host a reality television series in which he solves crime? I will give a paper on multi-fictionality and radical mediation at the #swpaca25 panel, #Mystery/DetectiveFiction (Friday at 4:45)
February 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Excited for #swpaca25
February 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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*COMICS*

Pictured are:
1: A spread from my short story "Pause" with art & lettering by www.evdbart.co.uk and published in werewolfowen.gumroad.com/l/eKjve

2: Panels from an unpublished short with art by www.frogking.art

3: A panel from my current work in progress, a Weird West with art by myself
This is a two-page spread from a comic book depicting a huge orange cat sprawled over a little castle with tiny knights running amok. The thought bubbles read "Why Bother D'h Khana? / You can't save them all / What has man done for you anyway?" Additional text quotes lines from Wordsworth's Resolution and Independence - "How can he expect that others should / build for him / sow for him/ and at his call / love him, who for himself will take no heed at all" This is a two panel excerpt from a comic book. It hasn't been lettered yet so there aren't any words. The first panel (full width horizontal, 1/3 height) depicts two figures writing horses emerging from a cloud of dust. The second panel (fill width horizontal, 1/3 height) depicts a large buzzard in the foreground and the figures from the first panel small in the background. This is a traditional medium, sable brush + india ink drawing of a girl touching a horse's face. The horse has a mane made out of fire and a skeleton face. The girl's hair is blown back in the wind.
November 11, 2024 at 4:49 PM