Scott Preston
@scottprestonauthor.bsky.social
Author of THE BORROWED HILLS 🏔 A neo-Western drama set in the hills of Cumbria 🐏 | UK John Murray | US Scribner | Agent: Peter Straus RCW
scottpreston.co.uk
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Can't believe ChatGPT is ruining the reputation of em dashes.
Starting to look like astroturfing by big grammar and big Latin to get me to use semicolons — you'll take my run-on sentences from my cold, dead hands!
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Starting to look like astroturfing by big grammar and big Latin to get me to use semicolons — you'll take my run-on sentences from my cold, dead hands!
👊———👊
July 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Can't believe ChatGPT is ruining the reputation of em dashes.
Starting to look like astroturfing by big grammar and big Latin to get me to use semicolons — you'll take my run-on sentences from my cold, dead hands!
👊———👊
Starting to look like astroturfing by big grammar and big Latin to get me to use semicolons — you'll take my run-on sentences from my cold, dead hands!
👊———👊
Why are there so many sad songs about Ohio? What happens there?
July 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Why are there so many sad songs about Ohio? What happens there?
"Pigeons. They're intelligent but they've nah got the concept of teams."
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Pigeon Football: The Beautiful Game
YouTube video by Pigeon Network
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June 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"Pigeons. They're intelligent but they've nah got the concept of teams."
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"Love is a bullet into the mind of loneliness/
Spraying lonely blood all over the wall of regret."
Somebody needs to give Conor O'Malley a Pulitzer already. Greatest mind of the 20th century.
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Spraying lonely blood all over the wall of regret."
Somebody needs to give Conor O'Malley a Pulitzer already. Greatest mind of the 20th century.
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Slugs
YouTube video by Conner O'Malley
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May 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"Love is a bullet into the mind of loneliness/
Spraying lonely blood all over the wall of regret."
Somebody needs to give Conor O'Malley a Pulitzer already. Greatest mind of the 20th century.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYrN...
Spraying lonely blood all over the wall of regret."
Somebody needs to give Conor O'Malley a Pulitzer already. Greatest mind of the 20th century.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYrN...
This is DVD (2000) Promo (VHS Capture)
YouTube video by retro VHS trailers
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March 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Stoked to see The Borrowed Hills made it onto the
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award shortlist. Some incredibly impressive books to be alongside here! 🧡🐑
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award shortlist. Some incredibly impressive books to be alongside here! 🧡🐑
Delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Best First Novel Award 2025: Congrats @markabowles.bsky.social #KalianebBradley #FerdiaLennon @scottprestonauthor.bsky.social #LeoVardiashvili #LaiWen www.authorsclub.co.uk/shortlist-an...
Shortlist announced for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2025 | The Authors' Club Since 1891
The Authors’ Club is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Best First Novel Award, now in its 71st year.
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March 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Stoked to see The Borrowed Hills made it onto the
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award shortlist. Some incredibly impressive books to be alongside here! 🧡🐑
Authors' Club Best First Novel Award shortlist. Some incredibly impressive books to be alongside here! 🧡🐑
Had a lot of fun doing this interview for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year shortlist talking about Westerns, Cumbria and getting published 🐑
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Readers on Writers: Scott Preston - Young Writer of the Year Award
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March 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Had a lot of fun doing this interview for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year shortlist talking about Westerns, Cumbria and getting published 🐑
www.youngwriteraward.com/readers-on-w...
www.youngwriteraward.com/readers-on-w...
So thrilled to see The Borrowed Hills among this great longlist of first novels! 🐑🐑🐑
Thrilled to announce the #Authors'Club Best First Novel Award 2025: www.authorsclub.co.uk/longlist-for...
Longlist for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2025
Today, the Authors’ Club announces the longlist for the annual Best First Novel Award, now in its 71st year. The longlisted books are as follows…
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February 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
So thrilled to see The Borrowed Hills among this great longlist of first novels! 🐑🐑🐑
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The shortlist for the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award was announced today @thetimes.com
Congratulations to Harriet Baker, Moses McKenzie, @scottprestonauthor.bsky.social and Ralf Webb www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Congratulations to Harriet Baker, Moses McKenzie, @scottprestonauthor.bsky.social and Ralf Webb www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
February 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The shortlist for the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award was announced today @thetimes.com
Congratulations to Harriet Baker, Moses McKenzie, @scottprestonauthor.bsky.social and Ralf Webb www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Congratulations to Harriet Baker, Moses McKenzie, @scottprestonauthor.bsky.social and Ralf Webb www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Saving for future reference 🪶
Beautiful sandhill cranes sound
YouTube video by Animal lovers Tv
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January 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Saving for future reference 🪶
For whatever reason, my long playlists of field recordings are about the most popular thing I’ve done. So here’s one for new releases in 2024 to listen to while you taxidermy roadkill or study the anatomy of flightless birds.
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100 Best Field Recordings 2024
Playlist · Scott Preston · 100 items
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January 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
For whatever reason, my long playlists of field recordings are about the most popular thing I’ve done. So here’s one for new releases in 2024 to listen to while you taxidermy roadkill or study the anatomy of flightless birds.
open.spotify.com/playlist/7qI...
open.spotify.com/playlist/7qI...
I don’t get coming-of-age films these days. They feel so alien. The teenagers talk like Marvel characters, have $1,000 outfits and are so, so cool. They’re Instagram stories come to life. What happened to losers trying to fit in? Y’know, that strange thing we used to call adolescence.
January 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I don’t get coming-of-age films these days. They feel so alien. The teenagers talk like Marvel characters, have $1,000 outfits and are so, so cool. They’re Instagram stories come to life. What happened to losers trying to fit in? Y’know, that strange thing we used to call adolescence.
Writing a book about lonely men doing lonely work has led to odd conversations about how men express themselves. Or don’t. My feeling is they do, but we don’t really want to listen, and to prove it, here’s 100 rough-tough cowboys singing 100 songs about loneliness.
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The Loneliest Cowboys in the World
Playlist · Scott Preston · 100 items · 5 saves
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January 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Writing a book about lonely men doing lonely work has led to odd conversations about how men express themselves. Or don’t. My feeling is they do, but we don’t really want to listen, and to prove it, here’s 100 rough-tough cowboys singing 100 songs about loneliness.
open.spotify.com/playlist/6ZV...
open.spotify.com/playlist/6ZV...
Here’s my final list of the 100 Best Songs from Northern England in 2024.
May as well have to something to show for all the time I spend making lists of UK music releases by region.
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May as well have to something to show for all the time I spend making lists of UK music releases by region.
open.spotify.com/playlist/0XY...
100 Best Songs from Northern England (2024)
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December 18, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Here’s my final list of the 100 Best Songs from Northern England in 2024.
May as well have to something to show for all the time I spend making lists of UK music releases by region.
open.spotify.com/playlist/0XY...
May as well have to something to show for all the time I spend making lists of UK music releases by region.
open.spotify.com/playlist/0XY...
I can’t stop looking at this album cover.
December 15, 2024 at 4:14 PM
I can’t stop looking at this album cover.
Here’s my list of the 100 best songs of 2024.
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First year that I’ve felt like a cloud-yelling millennial. Lots of the hipster trash from my youth making an appearance. Lots of confusion about what’s cool.
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First year that I’ve felt like a cloud-yelling millennial. Lots of the hipster trash from my youth making an appearance. Lots of confusion about what’s cool.
100 Best Songs of 2024
Playlist · Scott Preston · 100 items
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December 10, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Here’s my list of the 100 best songs of 2024.
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First year that I’ve felt like a cloud-yelling millennial. Lots of the hipster trash from my youth making an appearance. Lots of confusion about what’s cool.
open.spotify.com/playlist/28W...
First year that I’ve felt like a cloud-yelling millennial. Lots of the hipster trash from my youth making an appearance. Lots of confusion about what’s cool.
Great to see The Borrowed Hills on here! “A pitch-black western set amid the sheep farms of Cumbria, striking and powerful.”
December 8, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Great to see The Borrowed Hills on here! “A pitch-black western set amid the sheep farms of Cumbria, striking and powerful.”
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Fiction runner-up: The Borrowed Hills, Scott Preston (Scribner)
Nonfiction runner-up: Every Valley, Charles King (Doubleday)
Nonfiction runner-up: Every Valley, Charles King (Doubleday)
November 30, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Fiction runner-up: The Borrowed Hills, Scott Preston (Scribner)
Nonfiction runner-up: Every Valley, Charles King (Doubleday)
Nonfiction runner-up: Every Valley, Charles King (Doubleday)
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This should have been on many more award lists this year.
December 2, 2024 at 6:23 PM
This should have been on many more award lists this year.
Not much to say about the films of 2024. Felt like a quiet year. My favourite was Anora but that doesn’t make me feel special enough. So, I’m going to put my 10 best films of 2025 instead:
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1. The Battle of Batkan Cross – Another masterwork from Paul Thomas Anderson.
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1. The Battle of Batkan Cross – Another masterwork from Paul Thomas Anderson.
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December 6, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Not much to say about the films of 2024. Felt like a quiet year. My favourite was Anora but that doesn’t make me feel special enough. So, I’m going to put my 10 best films of 2025 instead:
🧵
1. The Battle of Batkan Cross – Another masterwork from Paul Thomas Anderson.
...
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1. The Battle of Batkan Cross – Another masterwork from Paul Thomas Anderson.
...
I made a Letterboxd account a while ago, but I don’t really like writing reviews. Never agree with myself once I’m done.
Anyroad, I do like making lists. So, I made one for the 100 films that influenced The Borrowed Hills: letterboxd.com/scottpreston...
Anyroad, I do like making lists. So, I made one for the 100 films that influenced The Borrowed Hills: letterboxd.com/scottpreston...
100 Films That Inspired The Borrowed Hills
A selection of the films that inspired the novel The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston (compiled by, me, Scott Preston). Contains the Westerns, gangster flicks, sheep documentaries, kitchen sink realism...
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December 5, 2024 at 6:53 PM
I made a Letterboxd account a while ago, but I don’t really like writing reviews. Never agree with myself once I’m done.
Anyroad, I do like making lists. So, I made one for the 100 films that influenced The Borrowed Hills: letterboxd.com/scottpreston...
Anyroad, I do like making lists. So, I made one for the 100 films that influenced The Borrowed Hills: letterboxd.com/scottpreston...
Hot take #1. Tablecloths are coming back in a big way. Bistro-core will take over Pinterest. Crisp, white tablecloths: thick five-hundred thread count ones. They’re very fancy and very calming and I’m not feeling exposed wood for 2025. Count on this.
December 4, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Hot take #1. Tablecloths are coming back in a big way. Bistro-core will take over Pinterest. Crisp, white tablecloths: thick five-hundred thread count ones. They’re very fancy and very calming and I’m not feeling exposed wood for 2025. Count on this.
My wife said I need more hot takes on the internet. Get into online scrapes. Put some dirt in my eye. But it’s difficult because I mostly watch telly and eat biscuits and none of my opinions live very long. I’ll see what I can do.
a man in a suit is walking out of a doorway
ALT: a man in a suit is walking out of a doorway
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December 3, 2024 at 9:48 PM
My wife said I need more hot takes on the internet. Get into online scrapes. Put some dirt in my eye. But it’s difficult because I mostly watch telly and eat biscuits and none of my opinions live very long. I’ll see what I can do.
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The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston is one of my two favorite novels of the year. Every sentence a work of art. So what a joy and honor to be able to speak with him about it and my debut novel What We Tried to Bury Grows Here for Write or Die Magazine.
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Julian Zabalbeascoa and Scott Preston: On Finding the Right Voice, Writing Violence, and Their Debut Novels ‘What We Tried to Bury Grows Here’ and ‘The Borrowed Hills’ — Write or Die Magazine
Julian Zabalbeascoa reached out to me while he was staying in Northern Ireland as we had both written novels that grappled, in different measures, with nationhood, violence, and sheep. Although Julian...
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November 15, 2024 at 11:46 AM
The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston is one of my two favorite novels of the year. Every sentence a work of art. So what a joy and honor to be able to speak with him about it and my debut novel What We Tried to Bury Grows Here for Write or Die Magazine.
writeordiemag.com/author-inter...
writeordiemag.com/author-inter...