Laura Elliott
@tinywriterlaura.bsky.social
Disabled writer of things. Bad at being on BlueSky. Debut novel AWAKENED out now with Angry Robot Books.
‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
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Deer grazing on side of mountain near Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Deer grazing on side of mountain near Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.
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Amatica Health are offering over a £1000 worth of testing for teens under 18 with Long Covid/ ME.
Google form to apply is here 👇
docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/...
Google form to apply is here 👇
docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/...
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Amatica Health are offering over a £1000 worth of testing for teens under 18 with Long Covid/ ME.
Google form to apply is here 👇
docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/...
Google form to apply is here 👇
docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/...
caught myself singing 🎵 trimming my darlings, trimming my darlings🎵 as i cut small sections out of the second draft of book two, just in case anyone was wondering how this whole thing was going
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
caught myself singing 🎵 trimming my darlings, trimming my darlings🎵 as i cut small sections out of the second draft of book two, just in case anyone was wondering how this whole thing was going
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are you looking for your next Frankenstinian fix? perhaps featuring hubristic science, an enigmatic monster, and a literary dystopia set in the Tower of London?
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
are you looking for your next Frankenstinian fix? perhaps featuring hubristic science, an enigmatic monster, and a literary dystopia set in the Tower of London?
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
so many people don’t realise that as well as being queen of horror shirley jackson was actually an incredibly funny writer, and dropping the bloviating or the surreally-pompous into a tense scene was one of her regular sly techniques! i love her so much
another funny bit from Hill House
"No fancy sauces for *me*," Arthur said firmly. "Tell my fellows it's the mark of a cad.... Fancy sauces, women waiting on you. *My* fellows wait on themsleves. Mark of a man."
"No fancy sauces for *me*," Arthur said firmly. "Tell my fellows it's the mark of a cad.... Fancy sauces, women waiting on you. *My* fellows wait on themsleves. Mark of a man."
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
so many people don’t realise that as well as being queen of horror shirley jackson was actually an incredibly funny writer, and dropping the bloviating or the surreally-pompous into a tense scene was one of her regular sly techniques! i love her so much
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Facing a grim eternity having been stitched together by a mad scientist with no conscience and vast hubris?
Do we have the read for you! A promise of love! A book to keep you company in your tragic desolation!
Do we have the read for you! A promise of love! A book to keep you company in your tragic desolation!
are you looking for your next Frankenstinian fix? perhaps featuring hubristic science, an enigmatic monster, and a literary dystopia set in the Tower of London?
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Facing a grim eternity having been stitched together by a mad scientist with no conscience and vast hubris?
Do we have the read for you! A promise of love! A book to keep you company in your tragic desolation!
Do we have the read for you! A promise of love! A book to keep you company in your tragic desolation!
are you looking for your next Frankenstinian fix? perhaps featuring hubristic science, an enigmatic monster, and a literary dystopia set in the Tower of London?
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
are you looking for your next Frankenstinian fix? perhaps featuring hubristic science, an enigmatic monster, and a literary dystopia set in the Tower of London?
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
Euan Blair owns an AI company
Well, well, well.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Euan Blair owns an AI company
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November 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Submissions for the 10th year of the Jhalak Prize are open 👇 #BookSky
Jhalak Prize submissions open for 10th year
ebx.sh
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Submissions for the 10th year of the Jhalak Prize are open 👇 #BookSky
heard J upstairs on the phone say ‘you aren’t near a defibrillator are you?’ & i thought ‘oh god one of his elderly parents has collapsed’ & started mentally prepping how we’d help- until a moment later he said ‘i’m out of gear’ & i realised he’s playing a videogame with his friends 😤
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
heard J upstairs on the phone say ‘you aren’t near a defibrillator are you?’ & i thought ‘oh god one of his elderly parents has collapsed’ & started mentally prepping how we’d help- until a moment later he said ‘i’m out of gear’ & i realised he’s playing a videogame with his friends 😤
this is why it’s so difficult to satirise the current tech world, because they keep consistently proving they’ve never understood a book anyway
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
this is why it’s so difficult to satirise the current tech world, because they keep consistently proving they’ve never understood a book anyway
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Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
with apologies to booksellers who i’m sure this might annoy, my brother has taken to turning Awakened cover-out on the shelves whenever he finds it in a bookshop 😂
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
with apologies to booksellers who i’m sure this might annoy, my brother has taken to turning Awakened cover-out on the shelves whenever he finds it in a bookshop 😂
POV: hercule purrot is smiling at you
November 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
POV: hercule purrot is smiling at you
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at what point do i tell everyone who’s obsessed with GDT’s frankenstein that my literary horror dystopia was described as ‘Frankenstinian’ in the Bookseller and features a man/monster doing a Silence of the Lambs-esque moral reckoning with the scientist protagonist, because-
loving this little bit of spooky season promo from my excellent publisher @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social!
it’s true, and you can find order links here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
it’s true, and you can find order links here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
at what point do i tell everyone who’s obsessed with GDT’s frankenstein that my literary horror dystopia was described as ‘Frankenstinian’ in the Bookseller and features a man/monster doing a Silence of the Lambs-esque moral reckoning with the scientist protagonist, because-
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.
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Sorry for the delay.
We had to wait on timezones.
Because HOME SICK just had its cover reveal in People Magazine.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
We had to wait on timezones.
Because HOME SICK just had its cover reveal in People Magazine.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Rhiannon Grist’s ‘Cottagegore’ Horror 'Home Sick' Will Make Your Skin Crawl — See the Cover! (Exclusive)
Rhiannon Grist is debuting a new psychological horror novel. PEOPLE has an exclusive preview of 'Home Sick', a new book that puts a dark spin on the haunted house story.
people.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Sorry for the delay.
We had to wait on timezones.
Because HOME SICK just had its cover reveal in People Magazine.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
We had to wait on timezones.
Because HOME SICK just had its cover reveal in People Magazine.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
i was absolutely devastated to read this today. Alice was one of the first disability activists i ever followed on twitter when I was first sick & didn’t know what was happening to me. I learnt so much from her work, & when I wanted to set up my UK disability podcast (In Visibility Today)-
🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
i was absolutely devastated to read this today. Alice was one of the first disability activists i ever followed on twitter when I was first sick & didn’t know what was happening to me. I learnt so much from her work, & when I wanted to set up my UK disability podcast (In Visibility Today)-
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It’s here: the cover for the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS, coming out April 02 2026 by Penguin Michael Joseph🖤
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It’s here: the cover for the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS, coming out April 02 2026 by Penguin Michael Joseph🖤
no YOU had to get up at 3:30am because of a vertigo flare and are thoroughly unhappy about it 😭
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM
no YOU had to get up at 3:30am because of a vertigo flare and are thoroughly unhappy about it 😭
VICTORRYYYYYYY!!!! now let’s never speak of the last 2 hours again #HiddenBooksGame
November 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
VICTORRYYYYYYY!!!! now let’s never speak of the last 2 hours again #HiddenBooksGame
my kingdom for someone who can give me a hint for the birds clue i’m losing my mind #HiddenBooksGame
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
my kingdom for someone who can give me a hint for the birds clue i’m losing my mind #HiddenBooksGame
realised that I’ve found 19 things to click on but can’t find the 20th clue to even guess at! WHERE IS IT? #HiddenBooksGame 😭
oh no it’s that day of the year again: the #hiddenbooksgame when i question whether i’ve ever read a book in my life 😬
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
realised that I’ve found 19 things to click on but can’t find the 20th clue to even guess at! WHERE IS IT? #HiddenBooksGame 😭