Lorraine Wilson
@rainewilson.bsky.social
Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Kavya & Saltire Awards SL | THE SALT ORACLE coming 06/11/25 https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her
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✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
🚨 Book Sale Klaxon🚨
@solarisbooks.bsky.social are holding a #StillSpooky ebook sale for the next week, including amongst *many* splendid titles, both WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE.
Go fill yer boots! Or ereaders.
Geni.us/SolarisSale
@solarisbooks.bsky.social are holding a #StillSpooky ebook sale for the next week, including amongst *many* splendid titles, both WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE.
Go fill yer boots! Or ereaders.
Geni.us/SolarisSale
November 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🚨 Book Sale Klaxon🚨
@solarisbooks.bsky.social are holding a #StillSpooky ebook sale for the next week, including amongst *many* splendid titles, both WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE.
Go fill yer boots! Or ereaders.
Geni.us/SolarisSale
@solarisbooks.bsky.social are holding a #StillSpooky ebook sale for the next week, including amongst *many* splendid titles, both WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE.
Go fill yer boots! Or ereaders.
Geni.us/SolarisSale
In other news, paw
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In other news, paw
New post up! This one on why publication days are both lovely and strange.
Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
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Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
www.patreon.com/posts/143052...
Book launches - survival, celebration and chocolate | Lorraine Wilson
Get more from Lorraine Wilson on Patreon
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November 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
New post up! This one on why publication days are both lovely and strange.
Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
www.patreon.com/posts/143052...
Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
www.patreon.com/posts/143052...
North American readers, I adore you & am very grateful you want to read my books. Sadly I have no NA deal 😫
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
North American readers, I adore you & am very grateful you want to read my books. Sadly I have no NA deal 😫
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Massive thanks to the best Womble, who has been so supportive from the very start & whose reviews are something extra special🥹🤗
New Review - an excellent tale of digital ghosts, seers, scientists and ethics await in the brilliant The Salt Oracle by @rainewilson.bsky.social out now - very strongly recommended! Huge thanks to @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Solaris for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Solaris Published – Out Now Price – £18.99 hardback £7.99 Kindle ebook ...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Massive thanks to the best Womble, who has been so supportive from the very start & whose reviews are something extra special🥹🤗
THE SALT ORACLE has been out in the world for one whole week! So here's some nice things some even nicer people said about it!
And thank you to everyone who entered the preorder giveaway - I'm contacting winners today & am very grateful to you all x
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
And thank you to everyone who entered the preorder giveaway - I'm contacting winners today & am very grateful to you all x
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
THE SALT ORACLE has been out in the world for one whole week! So here's some nice things some even nicer people said about it!
And thank you to everyone who entered the preorder giveaway - I'm contacting winners today & am very grateful to you all x
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
And thank you to everyone who entered the preorder giveaway - I'm contacting winners today & am very grateful to you all x
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
Did you know that it's #singlesday?
The perfect opportunity to remind you of a superb selection of Solaris Standalones across fantasy, scifi, horror & spec fic!
From award-winners to modern classics, out of this world highjinks to creeping terror, you can find your perfect partner in our books!
The perfect opportunity to remind you of a superb selection of Solaris Standalones across fantasy, scifi, horror & spec fic!
From award-winners to modern classics, out of this world highjinks to creeping terror, you can find your perfect partner in our books!
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Did you know that it's #singlesday?
The perfect opportunity to remind you of a superb selection of Solaris Standalones across fantasy, scifi, horror & spec fic!
From award-winners to modern classics, out of this world highjinks to creeping terror, you can find your perfect partner in our books!
The perfect opportunity to remind you of a superb selection of Solaris Standalones across fantasy, scifi, horror & spec fic!
From award-winners to modern classics, out of this world highjinks to creeping terror, you can find your perfect partner in our books!
Massive congrats to the stellar human being @stewarthotston.com on the launch of this even more stellar (in every sense) book!
Project Hanuman is a read to savour & ponder & marvel at. I loved every word.
Project Hanuman is a read to savour & ponder & marvel at. I loved every word.
Wishing Project Hanuman and Stewart Hotston a very happy book birthday!
And check out Stewart's online tour - starting today!
And check out Stewart's online tour - starting today!
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Massive congrats to the stellar human being @stewarthotston.com on the launch of this even more stellar (in every sense) book!
Project Hanuman is a read to savour & ponder & marvel at. I loved every word.
Project Hanuman is a read to savour & ponder & marvel at. I loved every word.
I couldn't make it this year but I'll be there next, for sure. Delighted this new con was such a success
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I couldn't make it this year but I'll be there next, for sure. Delighted this new con was such a success
Hey bookish friends? 👇🏽
Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
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November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Hey bookish friends? 👇🏽
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
It’s today! 13 months after I started writing it, Daughters of Nicnevin is out in the world! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/daug...
Daughters of Nicnevin
Check out Daughters of Nicnevin - <p>Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. While the men of the village are away fighting, the villagers fa...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
It’s today! 13 months after I started writing it, Daughters of Nicnevin is out in the world! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/daug...
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
Right UK folks - @justinleeanderson.com and I want to build communities we want to see in the world. We've created a discord whose purpose is to share news with one another, look at who to write to, when to get out and act etc. If you want in, DM me or Justin and we'll sling you an invite
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Right UK folks - @justinleeanderson.com and I want to build communities we want to see in the world. We've created a discord whose purpose is to share news with one another, look at who to write to, when to get out and act etc. If you want in, DM me or Justin and we'll sling you an invite
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
"What are we if not stories we have been told, and stories we tell ourselves?"
A delicate blend of folklore and speculative fiction - exploring themes of xenophobia, grief, forgiveness, and recovery - tenderly threaded with fragile strands of hope.
Beautifully crafted by @rainewilson.bsky.social
A delicate blend of folklore and speculative fiction - exploring themes of xenophobia, grief, forgiveness, and recovery - tenderly threaded with fragile strands of hope.
Beautifully crafted by @rainewilson.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"What are we if not stories we have been told, and stories we tell ourselves?"
A delicate blend of folklore and speculative fiction - exploring themes of xenophobia, grief, forgiveness, and recovery - tenderly threaded with fragile strands of hope.
Beautifully crafted by @rainewilson.bsky.social
A delicate blend of folklore and speculative fiction - exploring themes of xenophobia, grief, forgiveness, and recovery - tenderly threaded with fragile strands of hope.
Beautifully crafted by @rainewilson.bsky.social
This is a powerful distinction. It is action that matters, not self-anointed labels
A bunch of writer friends are noting that they have not used LLMs to write. Me either, absolutely not. I feel like we need to stop asking kids what they want to BE when they grow up and start asking them what they want to DO. Because: I am not here to BE A WRITER, I am here to WRITE.
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This is a powerful distinction. It is action that matters, not self-anointed labels
Publishing is weird & full of hidden lows and visible highs, but can I just take this wee moment to be extremely un-British and say 'hey I did a thing'?
6 books
5 awards
14 (I think?) award listings
It's been rocky & the road ahead is uncertain but this here is not too shabby, is it?
6 books
5 awards
14 (I think?) award listings
It's been rocky & the road ahead is uncertain but this here is not too shabby, is it?
November 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Publishing is weird & full of hidden lows and visible highs, but can I just take this wee moment to be extremely un-British and say 'hey I did a thing'?
6 books
5 awards
14 (I think?) award listings
It's been rocky & the road ahead is uncertain but this here is not too shabby, is it?
6 books
5 awards
14 (I think?) award listings
It's been rocky & the road ahead is uncertain but this here is not too shabby, is it?
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
🎂🎉Happy Book Birthday to @rainewilson.bsky.social's THE SALT ORACLE!
🌊 Locked boat murder mystery
🌊 A world haunted by digital ghosts
🌊 Second chance romance
🌊 Dark Academia after the world ends
🌊 A young girl balanced between monster and victim
Buy now: https://geni.us/saltorac
🌊 Locked boat murder mystery
🌊 A world haunted by digital ghosts
🌊 Second chance romance
🌊 Dark Academia after the world ends
🌊 A young girl balanced between monster and victim
Buy now: https://geni.us/saltorac
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🎂🎉Happy Book Birthday to @rainewilson.bsky.social's THE SALT ORACLE!
🌊 Locked boat murder mystery
🌊 A world haunted by digital ghosts
🌊 Second chance romance
🌊 Dark Academia after the world ends
🌊 A young girl balanced between monster and victim
Buy now: https://geni.us/saltorac
🌊 Locked boat murder mystery
🌊 A world haunted by digital ghosts
🌊 Second chance romance
🌊 Dark Academia after the world ends
🌊 A young girl balanced between monster and victim
Buy now: https://geni.us/saltorac
I am very much not alone in thinking PROJECT HANUMAN is something special. So get them last minute preorders in, folks!
"A visionary, mind-bending space opera of electric drama and searing heart"
@rainewilson.bsky.social
"From truly quantum scale to galactic...told from the level of the human heart"
@essahansen.bsky.social
"An intelligent page-turner at the cutting edge of the genre"
@julietemckenna.bsky.social
@rainewilson.bsky.social
"From truly quantum scale to galactic...told from the level of the human heart"
@essahansen.bsky.social
"An intelligent page-turner at the cutting edge of the genre"
@julietemckenna.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I am very much not alone in thinking PROJECT HANUMAN is something special. So get them last minute preorders in, folks!
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
Out now in paperback is this gorgeous story of magic, digital ghosts, communities and even a cat - I strongly recommend All The Ghosts In The Forest by @rainewilson.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/12...
We Are All Ghosts In The Forest by Lorraine Wilson — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Solaris for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher - Solaris Published - Out Now Price - £18.99 hardback £7.99 Kindle eBook ...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Out now in paperback is this gorgeous story of magic, digital ghosts, communities and even a cat - I strongly recommend All The Ghosts In The Forest by @rainewilson.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/12...
Hey so I have *opinions* about Dark Academia & the splendid folk at Fantasy Hive were kind enough to let me expound on them!!
Let me know what you think? And what your recommendations in the genre are 📚📚📚
Let me know what you think? And what your recommendations in the genre are 📚📚📚
We're thrilled to welcome Dr Lorrain Wilson back to the Hive. She's written us another excellent article, this time on Dark Academia, ahead of the release of her own DA novel THE SALT ORACLE, out today from @solarisbooks.bsky.social
More: tinyurl.com/mvywxtep
@rainewilson.bsky.social
More: tinyurl.com/mvywxtep
@rainewilson.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Hey so I have *opinions* about Dark Academia & the splendid folk at Fantasy Hive were kind enough to let me expound on them!!
Let me know what you think? And what your recommendations in the genre are 📚📚📚
Let me know what you think? And what your recommendations in the genre are 📚📚📚
'every line in The Salt Oracle is a work of art'
🥹 Massive thanks to the wonderful creature that is Frasier Armitage, for this delightful review! 🤗🤗🤗
🥹 Massive thanks to the wonderful creature that is Frasier Armitage, for this delightful review! 🤗🤗🤗
REVIEW: “If Guillermo Del Toro adapted Jules Verne like an Agatha Christie mystery, you’d end up with something like THE SALT ORACLE by @rainewilson.bsky.social
It’s oceanic in its scope and beauty, and like the sea, it left me in a state of awe.”
Full review 👇🏻
fanfiaddict.com/review-the-s...
It’s oceanic in its scope and beauty, and like the sea, it left me in a state of awe.”
Full review 👇🏻
fanfiaddict.com/review-the-s...
Review: The Salt Oracle (Book #2 of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest) by Lorraine Wilson | FanFiAddict
Synopsis It’s been seventeen years since the Internet crashed and left the world broken… Auli lives on the Bellwether, a floating college safe from the conf ...
fanfiaddict.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
'every line in The Salt Oracle is a work of art'
🥹 Massive thanks to the wonderful creature that is Frasier Armitage, for this delightful review! 🤗🤗🤗
🥹 Massive thanks to the wonderful creature that is Frasier Armitage, for this delightful review! 🤗🤗🤗
✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
It's publication day TOMORROW! So last chance to enter this preorder giveaway! 👇🏽
🌊IT'S PRE ORDER GIVEAWAY TIME!!🌊
It's 6 weeks til THE SALT ORACLE is unleashed!
To celebrate, anyone who sends proof of a pre order will be in with a chance of winning 1 of 10 sets of these gorgeous oracle cards & a signed bookplate!
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
It's 6 weeks til THE SALT ORACLE is unleashed!
To celebrate, anyone who sends proof of a pre order will be in with a chance of winning 1 of 10 sets of these gorgeous oracle cards & a signed bookplate!
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
It's publication day TOMORROW! So last chance to enter this preorder giveaway! 👇🏽
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
Times are so difficult. Post-apocalyptic fiction is hard to read for me (since 2020 actually).
But these two books held me with their beautiful vibes of hope and humanity in quiet, everyday ways that are powerful for their sheer endurance. @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social ❤️
But these two books held me with their beautiful vibes of hope and humanity in quiet, everyday ways that are powerful for their sheer endurance. @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social ❤️
November 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Times are so difficult. Post-apocalyptic fiction is hard to read for me (since 2020 actually).
But these two books held me with their beautiful vibes of hope and humanity in quiet, everyday ways that are powerful for their sheer endurance. @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social ❤️
But these two books held me with their beautiful vibes of hope and humanity in quiet, everyday ways that are powerful for their sheer endurance. @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social ❤️
I am heading home from a fabulous @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social and it is OFFICIALLY PUBLICATION WEEK 🥳🥳🥳
If you're in the area, please do come see me on Thurs in St Andrews & make me sign things??
If you're in the area, please do come see me on Thurs in St Andrews & make me sign things??
On the 6th Nov - DOUBLE LAUNCH DAY - I'm in St Andrews for a book signing. Please come say hi if you're in the area!
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November 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I am heading home from a fabulous @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social and it is OFFICIALLY PUBLICATION WEEK 🥳🥳🥳
If you're in the area, please do come see me on Thurs in St Andrews & make me sign things??
If you're in the area, please do come see me on Thurs in St Andrews & make me sign things??
Hey it's sneak peak o'clock!
I am in an end-of-con fugue state but if you, unlike me, have more than one functional braincell please go give it a read?
I am in an end-of-con fugue state but if you, unlike me, have more than one functional braincell please go give it a read?
Ahead of its release next week, why not take a sneak peek at an excerpt of @rainewilson.bsky.social 's THE SALT ORACLE? A locked boat murder mystery in a giant floating college plagued by digital ghosts!
Read @scifinow.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4kwsu1j
Preorder: https://geni.us/saltorac
Read @scifinow.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4kwsu1j
Preorder: https://geni.us/saltorac
November 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Hey it's sneak peak o'clock!
I am in an end-of-con fugue state but if you, unlike me, have more than one functional braincell please go give it a read?
I am in an end-of-con fugue state but if you, unlike me, have more than one functional braincell please go give it a read?