Roanne Lau
@roannelau.bsky.social
Author of THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY
• An Amazon Editors' Pick for Best SFF
• A Den of Geek Unmissable Debut of 2025
• Buy now: http://tscm.carrd.co
Newsletter: http://roannelau.substack.com/embed
Agent: @keiralekseii.bsky.social
Chronically offline.
• An Amazon Editors' Pick for Best SFF
• A Den of Geek Unmissable Debut of 2025
• Buy now: http://tscm.carrd.co
Newsletter: http://roannelau.substack.com/embed
Agent: @keiralekseii.bsky.social
Chronically offline.
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we cannot comfort-read our way to a better world.
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
we cannot comfort-read our way to a better world.
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Leave little Saruman alone.
Some of those dogs at the dog show are just obscene abominations unto the lord.
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Leave little Saruman alone.
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Finally got to reading my copy of #TheSerpentCalledMercy by @roannelau.bsky.social and OMFG most lovely monsters I’ve read/seen in a long time.
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Finally got to reading my copy of #TheSerpentCalledMercy by @roannelau.bsky.social and OMFG most lovely monsters I’ve read/seen in a long time.
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People, if you are too poor to pay an author for their work, I have a solution for you. Your local public library is FREE and will gladly help you find a legitimate ebook version that you can check out, for free.
Don’t steal; use your local public library.
Don’t steal; use your local public library.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
People, if you are too poor to pay an author for their work, I have a solution for you. Your local public library is FREE and will gladly help you find a legitimate ebook version that you can check out, for free.
Don’t steal; use your local public library.
Don’t steal; use your local public library.
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Look, I am very small potatoes as an author. I make too little in royalties to live off them. But I can tell you the reason I got to write my 2nd book was bc the sales of the 1st were very good. That's what else you're eating into by pirating, our ability to keep writing what you claim to love.
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Look, I am very small potatoes as an author. I make too little in royalties to live off them. But I can tell you the reason I got to write my 2nd book was bc the sales of the 1st were very good. That's what else you're eating into by pirating, our ability to keep writing what you claim to love.
Still very proud of my little chonkster of a book, and honoured to see it in such great company!
A very satisfying Solaris Stack of all the hardback novels we're releasing in 2025!
Featuring:
THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY @roannelau.bsky.social
THE NEEDFIRE @mkhardywrites.com
RAGWORT @samkhorton.bsky.social
THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell
THE SALT ORACLE @rainewilson.bsky.social
Buy now!
Featuring:
THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY @roannelau.bsky.social
THE NEEDFIRE @mkhardywrites.com
RAGWORT @samkhorton.bsky.social
THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell
THE SALT ORACLE @rainewilson.bsky.social
Buy now!
November 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Still very proud of my little chonkster of a book, and honoured to see it in such great company!
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Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance.
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance.
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!
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I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
October 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
💯
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
💯
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Heyo! On Tuesday, 11/4 join me and *the* @hanalee.bsky.social at Books Inc. for THE KING MUST DIE’s book launch!
October 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Heyo! On Tuesday, 11/4 join me and *the* @hanalee.bsky.social at Books Inc. for THE KING MUST DIE’s book launch!
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PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today!
This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.
In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook
Available wherever books are sold.
#booksky #Blackbooksky
This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.
In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook
Available wherever books are sold.
#booksky #Blackbooksky
October 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today!
This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.
In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook
Available wherever books are sold.
#booksky #Blackbooksky
This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic.
In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook
Available wherever books are sold.
#booksky #Blackbooksky
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i’m so tired of this. musicians should be able to make a living. same w all artists. (for me, this is why ai generated slop so fucking insulting. we’re not even allowed to own the contents of our minds anymore—not without some jackass coming along and stealing it.)
pay artists a living wage.
pay artists a living wage.
Same problem in publishing and film.
Everyone gets paid long before the writer, and then it's pennies on the dollar, if we're lucky.
People can't create like this.
We shouldn't have to create like this.
There's no product without us, yet we get told it's more important to pay everyone else.
Everyone gets paid long before the writer, and then it's pennies on the dollar, if we're lucky.
People can't create like this.
We shouldn't have to create like this.
There's no product without us, yet we get told it's more important to pay everyone else.
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
October 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
i’m so tired of this. musicians should be able to make a living. same w all artists. (for me, this is why ai generated slop so fucking insulting. we’re not even allowed to own the contents of our minds anymore—not without some jackass coming along and stealing it.)
pay artists a living wage.
pay artists a living wage.
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it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃
October 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃
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I can finally say this publicly now.
Yay!!!
Yay!!!
October 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I can finally say this publicly now.
Yay!!!
Yay!!!
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Tomorrow is the last day to snap up this bundle of signed 1st edition novels and support @thepixelproject.bsky.social in their goal of ending domestic violence against women and girls.
thepixelproject.rallyup.com/read4pixelsf...
#booksky
thepixelproject.rallyup.com/read4pixelsf...
#booksky
October 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Tomorrow is the last day to snap up this bundle of signed 1st edition novels and support @thepixelproject.bsky.social in their goal of ending domestic violence against women and girls.
thepixelproject.rallyup.com/read4pixelsf...
#booksky
thepixelproject.rallyup.com/read4pixelsf...
#booksky
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WATERSTONES PREORDER CAMPAIGN!
Eager readers, I have a special surprise for you! If you preorder FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN through @waterstones, we’ll send you some gifts☀️ Head to the form in my bio to share your proof of purchase🧡
Eager readers, I have a special surprise for you! If you preorder FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN through @waterstones, we’ll send you some gifts☀️ Head to the form in my bio to share your proof of purchase🧡
October 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
WATERSTONES PREORDER CAMPAIGN!
Eager readers, I have a special surprise for you! If you preorder FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN through @waterstones, we’ll send you some gifts☀️ Head to the form in my bio to share your proof of purchase🧡
Eager readers, I have a special surprise for you! If you preorder FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN through @waterstones, we’ll send you some gifts☀️ Head to the form in my bio to share your proof of purchase🧡
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Have discovered I get way more royalties from library orders (as in from a single library order, based on the statement I just received) than from other sales. Wow. Neat.
Folks, order books for your libraries, make authors happy and share the love with other readers!
Folks, order books for your libraries, make authors happy and share the love with other readers!
September 3, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Have discovered I get way more royalties from library orders (as in from a single library order, based on the statement I just received) than from other sales. Wow. Neat.
Folks, order books for your libraries, make authors happy and share the love with other readers!
Folks, order books for your libraries, make authors happy and share the love with other readers!
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you have till EOD Friday to enter the draw for a physical ARC of THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA!!!
make me feel popular! get me to the top of that "Popular" tab! stroke my ego (please, there is so little ego left to stroke)!
make me feel popular! get me to the top of that "Popular" tab! stroke my ego (please, there is so little ego left to stroke)!
it's a GOODREADS GIVEAWAY! 🔥
enter before October 10th to win!
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social and @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social are giving away 100 ARCs of The Iron Garden Sutra 🤯
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
*US entrants only
enter before October 10th to win!
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social and @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social are giving away 100 ARCs of The Iron Garden Sutra 🤯
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
*US entrants only
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
you have till EOD Friday to enter the draw for a physical ARC of THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA!!!
make me feel popular! get me to the top of that "Popular" tab! stroke my ego (please, there is so little ego left to stroke)!
make me feel popular! get me to the top of that "Popular" tab! stroke my ego (please, there is so little ego left to stroke)!
A wholehearted hell yes to this! *sips from my cup of jasmine tea* 🍵
Sometimes all a Solaris Feast needs is the right drink.
@roannelau.bsky.social's THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY would be perfectly paired with Jasmine tea. The ideal thing for Lythlet and Desil to unwind with after a day of deadly arena fights!
@roannelau.bsky.social's THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY would be perfectly paired with Jasmine tea. The ideal thing for Lythlet and Desil to unwind with after a day of deadly arena fights!
October 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A wholehearted hell yes to this! *sips from my cup of jasmine tea* 🍵
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Enter to win an ARC of PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE in this @goodreads giveaway that's open 09/30/2025-10/14/2025!
75 winners will be chosen, so sign up and share widely! @TorDotComPub
www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
#giveaway #ARC #goodreads #booksky #Blackbooksky
75 winners will be chosen, so sign up and share widely! @TorDotComPub
www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
#giveaway #ARC #goodreads #booksky #Blackbooksky
September 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Enter to win an ARC of PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE in this @goodreads giveaway that's open 09/30/2025-10/14/2025!
75 winners will be chosen, so sign up and share widely! @TorDotComPub
www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
#giveaway #ARC #goodreads #booksky #Blackbooksky
75 winners will be chosen, so sign up and share widely! @TorDotComPub
www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
#giveaway #ARC #goodreads #booksky #Blackbooksky
HAPPENING NOW! Ask me anything on Reddit for the next 24 (or so) hours: www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
September 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
HAPPENING NOW! Ask me anything on Reddit for the next 24 (or so) hours: www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
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On Tuesday 16th September, you can hop over to r/fantasy on Reddit to @roannelau.bsky.social 's 'Ask Me Anything'!
Roanne's debut fantasy, THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY combines the steadfast friendship & class politics of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE with the tricky politics & arena battles of THE HUNGER GAMES.
Roanne's debut fantasy, THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY combines the steadfast friendship & class politics of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE with the tricky politics & arena battles of THE HUNGER GAMES.
September 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
On Tuesday 16th September, you can hop over to r/fantasy on Reddit to @roannelau.bsky.social 's 'Ask Me Anything'!
Roanne's debut fantasy, THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY combines the steadfast friendship & class politics of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE with the tricky politics & arena battles of THE HUNGER GAMES.
Roanne's debut fantasy, THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY combines the steadfast friendship & class politics of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE with the tricky politics & arena battles of THE HUNGER GAMES.
A reader recently sent me a gorgeous gushing essay of things she loved about my book, and I just had to share some snippets here (with her permission!). It’s always amazing when someone just innately groks and connects with something you wrote.
More snippets here: www.instagram.com/p/DMiPziKy2U...
More snippets here: www.instagram.com/p/DMiPziKy2U...
September 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A reader recently sent me a gorgeous gushing essay of things she loved about my book, and I just had to share some snippets here (with her permission!). It’s always amazing when someone just innately groks and connects with something you wrote.
More snippets here: www.instagram.com/p/DMiPziKy2U...
More snippets here: www.instagram.com/p/DMiPziKy2U...
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@roannelau.bsky.social's THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY is out now in the UK!
An epic fantasy of deadly beasts, arena battles, and steadfast friendship, perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES.
“As sharp as a speartip against your jugular " @julieleong.bsky.social
geni.us/serpentmercy
An epic fantasy of deadly beasts, arena battles, and steadfast friendship, perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES.
“As sharp as a speartip against your jugular " @julieleong.bsky.social
geni.us/serpentmercy
August 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
@roannelau.bsky.social's THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY is out now in the UK!
An epic fantasy of deadly beasts, arena battles, and steadfast friendship, perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES.
“As sharp as a speartip against your jugular " @julieleong.bsky.social
geni.us/serpentmercy
An epic fantasy of deadly beasts, arena battles, and steadfast friendship, perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES.
“As sharp as a speartip against your jugular " @julieleong.bsky.social
geni.us/serpentmercy
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getting really tired of having need of this meme
August 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
getting really tired of having need of this meme